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Coquille Talbert
Current student
M.A. Psychology, Art Therapy with Mental Health Counseling
 Antioch's reputation in the art therapy community is what drew Coquille Talbert to the University for graduate work.
Talbert said she learned about Antioch at Fairhaven College in Bellingham, where she took a lot of her classes while an undergraduate at Western Washington University. Kathleen Ferrara, who taught the introductory course in art therapy at Fairhaven, also taught art therapy at Antioch at the time.
Talbert said she did all she could to incorporate art therapy, feminism, cultural studies and psychology into her undergraduate studies at Western. Her senior project there was a supervised series of art therapy sessions at a women's shelter.
"At Antioch, you will be known by your name. You will not be lost in a sea of humanity. You will be first a human and friend and then a student: not a number."
For her art therapy graduate work, Talbert says she knew she wasn't interested in mainstream learning. "I believe strongly in the multiple intelligences. Multiple-choice tests are not for me. I do better explaining my knowledge in papers or discussion. Antioch provides learning styles that benefit me to my full potential," she notes.
Being proud of herself is among her best Antioch memories so far. "When I was telling my parents about what I had been learning at Antioch, my father said, 'Wow, it sounds like you are having experiences that you never would have had otherwise.'
"At Antioch, you will be known by your name. You will not be lost in a sea of humanity. You will be first a human and friend and then a student: not a number. I cannot walk down the hall here without someone smiling at me or calling me by my name. It is rare these days to find such a positive and personal experience in a university."
She tells prospective students Antioch is challenging.
"I like a challenge," she says. "You are challenged to think of things and have experiences that you may never have had without being a student here. You talk to people out of class that you may never have thought to talk to before and learn their stories."
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