individual sessions for artists with dr khalil with dr rania lee khalildfa/ doctorate of fine arts, ma, lmsw, ba, artist 

see rania’s bio
in these individualized sessions we can:

help you to stand in your true expression as an artist
listen to what your creative blocks, fear and critical voices within
     are saying, in order to shift them
understand from an embodied place what is good and important about your art 
work with feelings of vulnerability related to performing, sharing, or creating 
      your art   
attend to pain or shame from:                      
                               > negative reviews 
                               > negative experiences sharing or performing
                               > betrayal within personal or professional collaborations                                          
                               > systemic rejection based on class, race and or gender 
                               > harmful professors, teachers, art schools, parents,   
                                   institutions  
                               > feeling like you are not a “real artist” because you need to
                                  work a day job, parent or support your family, 
                                  because you did or didn’t go to art school, etc
                  
get to deeper aspects of your personal and political journey as an artist
recommit to or even release aspects of your life and work as an artist
situate and understand your work within wider systems and contexts on 
      planet earth and capitalism 

prices below are per session, multiple session packages available:

students and low income artists:  $125 
sessions at cinema antiplastique studio:  $175 - $250  
studio visits:  $250 - $450  (lower nyc and downtown brooklyn, see this map
                                        for locations beyond, please contact us)        
as a professor in the MFA program for comtemporary visual art at Parsons School of Art and Design, rania’s job was to conduct individual studio visits with graduate students, alerting her to similarities between good (constructive) therapy and studio visits.  individual sesssions for artists at cinema antiplastique combine dr khalil’s training in embodied movement and video practice and her experience being mentored by several of nyc’s avant garde luminaries including theatre director richard foreman and therapist sippio small. cinema antiplastique’s individual sessions for artists integrate rania’s master’s degree and post graduate training at the ackerman institute for families with her ongoing research and studies of post colonial thought, third world feminism and ecological justice.  rania’s experience as a working artist in post 9/11 new york city and as a woman of color completing a practice based doctorate in artistic research in a nordic european art school, lend to her understanding of the systemic nature of artist’s oppression, and her principles of kindness and (action based) empathy and compassion towards artists.  rania presently teaches part time and is a tenured professor in NYU’s Steinhardt School’s interdisciplinary BFA program.



general resources for artists:  
Liz Lerman”s Critical Response Method (structured feedback method for groups and peers)
The Artists Way by Julia Cameron  (individual, spiritual centered healing self help book for artists)