Maria Taveras
Jungian Analyst, C.G. Jung Institute of New York

Maria Taveras with Arrival of the Winged Serpent

EDUCATION

2009	Certificate in Jungian Psychoanalysis, C.G. Jung Institute of New York Thesis: "Transformation of the Feminine: The Woman, the Serpent, and the Voice"
1989	M.S.W., School of Social Work, New York University

PRESENTATIONS

• "Tree Woman: Dream Art, Metamorphosis, and the Myth of Daphne and Apollo," Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts, March 2009
• "Dream Art, Creative Process, and Active Imagination," Art and Psyche Conference, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, May 2008
• "Transformation of the Feminine: Jungian Dream Interpretation," Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts, November 2007
• "Foreign Journeys: Dream Art and Creative Imagination," International Association for Analytical Psychology Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, August 2007
• "Dream Art," Center for Educational and Psychological Services, Teacher’s College, Columbia University, April 2007
• "T-Rex, King of the Bad Boys: Jungian Dream Interpretation," Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts, October 2006
• "Dream Art and Creative Imagination," International Association for Jungian Studies Conference, Greenwich University, London, July 2006
• "Fantasies of Analytic Training," National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis Conference, New York, October 2004

EXHIBITIONS

2009	Sculpture, Dreamwork Art Exhibition, Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, New York
2009	Painting, Contemporary Artists Guild, Broome Street Gallery, New York
2008	Sculptures and Paintings, Art and Psyche Conference, Virtual Gallery, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco
2007	Sculptures and Paintings, International Association for Analytical Psychology Congress, Cape Town
2006	Sculptures, International Association for Jungian Studies Conference, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London
2005	Sculptures, International Association for the Study of Dreams Conference, Berkeley

AWARDS

2004	Gradiva Award for sculpture "Transformation of the Feminine" for best work of art to advance the future of psychoanalysis, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis

CORPORATE AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

• Sculpture "Emergence of the Winged Serpent," Accounting Comes Alive, an international financial education firm, Cape Town
• Sculpture "Arrival of the Winged Serpent," Private Collection

ARTICLES ABOUT THE "DREAM ART" OF MARIA TAVERAS

• Valerie Lum, "Maria Taveras: Sculpting the Psyche," Ins & Outs Magazine (November 2007): 41-3.
• Francis V. O’Connor, "Dreamwork: An Exhibition," http://www.fvoconnorsbooks.com/.