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When NYU Art Therapy Program Director Dr. Ikuko Acosta looks at some of the new artwork submitted for the program's upcoming exhibit "9/11 Arts: A Decade Later", she remembers some of the first responders and others who have been helped over the years, including a hesitant firefighter.

He picked up a charcoal and then initially he was playing around with the materials and then a few weeks later he began to kind of draw the Twin Towers, sort of bent in half and it just sort of opened up in this way and he made a series of the Twin Towers in very expressive way," recalls Acosta. "He was able to sort of bring out some of the things that he was experiencing inside but which he could not put words onto."

Acosta says through private and public grants faculty and graduate students were able to offer 9/11 related arts therapy to hundreds of adults and children over the years. Interestingly, much of the newer art work created focuses not just on grief, but also new emotions surrounding the anniversary and issues of 9/11 related illnesses.

"So we are also focusing on that aspect that that how the people who are not only emotionally and psychologically but also physically dealing with the problems," says Acosta.

The exhibition, which opens September 11, will take place in the first floor gallery located at 34 Stuyvesant Street. In addition to the artwork that will be on view there will also be some interactive components.

"We're gonna have a projected map of the city on the floor and the visitors can draw on it, build buildings, trees and bridges and even people," says Acosta.

While visitors can benefit from some informal arts therapy, NYU's Art Therapy Program continues to offer formal sessions as well.

For more information, visit www.steinhardt.nyu.edu.