Applied Arts and Health

Description

This collection documents diverse approaches in creative arts engagement, building metaphoric bridges across the field with an emphasis on creativity and well-being in education and community development.

Focussing on applied arts and health practice, research, scholarship, expressive arts therapy, community and education, the book advances integrative and multimodal art-based processes. This book aims to give prominence to art-based research and provides useful support to those working and researching across applied arts and health, education and community contexts. The book brings together a collection of world-leading authors in the field spanning a range of cultures, documenting projects and significantly adding to cohesive research in the field.

In continuing to advance applied arts and health, whilst furthering a commitment to art-based research, this new book places emphasis upon the artistic research methodology, underlining that art (performing art and visual art) is the evidence. It offers the field an integral vision for the arts both theoretically and practically. Further, the book breaks down the silos of practice that have been unhelpful in their development.

The audience for this book will include art-based researchers, expressive arts practitioners and scholars, arts educators, and those interested in bridging the gap between arts and health practice. Masters and doctoral level students in art-based research, participatory research, and qualitative research with an arts-focus are another audience for the book. All applied arts and health practitioners and academics, arts educators, art therapists and university PaR programmes. Whilst of particular use to postgraduate students, this text will also be useful to final year undergraduate students in assisting them with creative practice-based dissertations and projects. Also useful to researchers, practitioners and a range of research degree programmes in applied arts and health, education and community engagement.

Acknowledgements

Preface

Foreword – Shaun McNiff

Introduction: Art as a Bridge – Ross W. Prior, Mitchell Kossak, and Teresa A. Fisher



PART 1: ARTISTIC EVIDENCE

1. Art Is the Evidence: Convincing Public Communication of Art-Based Research and Its Outcomes – Shaun McNiff

2. Bridging Past, Present, and Future: What If There Were No Art? – Mitchell Kossak

3. Beyond the Walls: The Artist–Researcher and Performative Dissemination – Rebecca Stancliffe, Kate Wakeling, Lucy Evans, and Stella Howard

4. Making Music Together: Music Therapy with Women Experiencing Breast Cancer – Yanyi Yang



PART 2: UNDERSTANDING THROUGH ARTISTIC PRACTICE

5. Soulfulness: The Becoming of Being – Malcolm Ross

6. Bridging Arts and Healthcare Communities – J. Todd Frazier and Shay Thornton Kulha

7. Becoming our Story: Emergent Design through Affect – Carole Miller and Juliana Saxton

8. Building a Bridge between the Improvisational Expressive Arts and Music Education – Tawnya D. Smith



PART 3: WORKING TOGETHER

9. Slowly Winding the Thread: Art Therapy and Crisis: Supporting Communities through Art – Debra Kalmanowitz 

10. A Bridge to Meaning: Creating Performance with Neurodiverse Young People – Rea Dennis

11. Beyond the Verbal: Dementia and PARticipatory Arts Research – Meghánn Catherine Ward, Christine Milligan, Emma Rose, and Mary Elliott

12. Transformative Impact of Drama in Mental Healthcare Education – Bruce Burton, Ingrid Femdal, Eva Bjørg Antonsen, and Margret Lepp 



PART 4: WIDENING THE FIELD 

13. The Healing Power of Art: Old Nordic Folk Knowledge Re-claimed – Wenche Torrissen, Anita Jensen, and Anita Salamonsen 

14. Bridging Modalities and Playing with Identities: Art-based Workshop Reflections – Hillary Rubesin, Laura Teoli, Yu-Ying Chen, Dina Fried, and Michal Lev

15. Caring Attunement: The Performance of Ageing – Lisa Schouw 

16. Reading as Community: Solace, Pleasures, and Becoming during COVID-19 Pandemic – Joanne O’Mara and Glenn Auld 



Notes on Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Arts visuels
• Arts visuels
• Santé et bien-être
• Santé du quotidien
• ART
• Performance
• General
• Interdisciplinarity
• General officer
• Performance art
• Expressive therapy
• EDUCATION
• Performing Arts
• Alternative Therapies

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 18 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781789386271
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

Applied Arts and Health
Applied Arts and Health

Building Bridges Across Arts, Therapy, Health, Education, and Community
EDITED BY
Ross W. Prior, Mitchell Kossak, and Teresa A. Fisher
First published in the UK in 2022 by
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Acknowledgements
The editors and authors of this book gratefully acknowledge the University of Wolverhampton in making this book possible and the generosity of the following organizations in supporting the conference that began this wonderful journey.
Houston Methodist, Center for Performing Arts Medicine (CPAM) - Gold Sponsor, Intellect Books, NOAH - National Organization of Arts in Health, IEATA - International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, Lowell Nancy Swortzell Permanent Fund in Educational Theatre (NYU), Lesley University, Journal of Applied Arts Health and the Arts Learning Teaching Research (ALTR) Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
(Anonymous)
No bridge will stand without its supports and we dedicate this book to all those talented artists, educators, and health professionals who support the valuable work reflected within these pages.
This book is dedicated to all those who tragically lost their lives and livelihood during the COVID-19 pandemic and to all those who selflessly supported humanity in the care of our health and well-being.
We dedicate this book to the memory of our friends Philip Taylor and Lisa Schouw who sadly passed away since we met together in 2019.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Foreword
Shaun McNiff
Introduction Art as a Bridge
Ross W. Prior, Mitchell Kossak, and Teresa A. Fisher
PART 1: ARTISTIC EVIDENCE
1. Art Is the Evidence: Convincing Public Communication of Art-Based Research and Its Outcomes
Shaun McNiff
2. Bridging Past, Present, and Future: What If There Were No Art?
Mitchell Kossak
3. Beyond the Walls: The Artist-Researcher and Performative Dissemination
Rebecca Stancliffe, Kate Wakeling, Lucy Evans, and Stella Howard
4. Making Music Together: Music Therapy with Women Experiencing Breast Cancer
Yanyi Yang
PART 2: UNDERSTANDING THROUGH ARTISTIC PRACTICE
5. Soulfulness: The Becoming of Being
Malcolm Ross
6. Bridging Arts and Healthcare Communities
J. Todd Frazier and Shay Thornton Kulha
7. Becoming our Story: Emergent Design through Affect
Carole Miller and Juliana Saxton
8. Building a Bridge between the Improvisational Expressive Arts and Music Education
Tawnya D. Smith
PART 3: WORKING TOGETHER
9. Slowly Winding the Thread: Art Therapy and Crisis: Supporting Communities through Art
Debra Kalmanowitz
10. A Bridge to Meaning: Creating Performance with Neurodiverse Young People
Rea Dennis
11. Beyond the Verbal: Dementia and PAR ticipatory Arts Research
Megh nn Catherine Ward, Christine Milligan, Emma Rose, and Mary Elliott
12. Transformative Impact of Drama in Mental Healthcare Education
Bruce Burton, Ingrid Femdal, Eva Bj rg Antonsen, and Margret Lepp
PART 4: WIDENING THE FIELD
13. The Healing Power of Art: Old Nordic Folk Knowledge Re-claimed
Wenche Torrissen, Anita Jensen, and Anita Salamonsen
14. Bridging Modalities and Playing with Identities: Art-based Workshop Reflections
Hillary Rubesin, Laura Teoli, Yu-Ying Chen, Dina Fried, and Michal Lev
15. Caring Attunement: The Performance of Ageing
Lisa Schouw
16. Reading as Community: Solace, Pleasures, and Becoming during COVID-19 Pandemic
Joanne O Mara and Glenn Auld

Notes on Contributors
Index
Preface
The genesis of this book was a landmark conference, held 6-11 August 2019, hosted by the Journal of Applied Arts Health (JAAH) to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The conference was ideally located in Telford and the Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire, England, near the UNESCO World Heritage site known as the Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution . The conference celebrated the power of art - we define all artforms as art without the need to silo each. Just as the chapters in this book aim to do, the conference aspired to build metaphoric bridges across the field by facilitating a diverse and lively programme of dialogue with an emphasis on creativity and well-being in education and community, including the use of expressive arts therapy. The conference focused on applied arts practice, research, and scholarship across various domains to challenge epistemological and ontological assumptions of our art-based approaches.
Motivated by what the international gathering offered, the conference delegates explored, through art, how we may metaphorically build bridges across the areas of arts and health programming, education, therapy, and creative delivery within the wider community. The concept of building bridges is about bringing people together and to these ends Ironbridge - Telford became that fitting metaphor. The conference venue brought us close to the village of Ironbridge where the world's first cast-iron arch bridge is proudly located. The bridge-building project began construction in 1777 and was completed in 1779. The Iron Bridge was a major breakthrough in bridge technology, using cast iron for the first time as it arches to cross the River Severn, the longest river in Great Britain at a length of 220 miles (354 km). This bridge came about through ingenuity, collective endeavour, and creative vision. So too were the results of our historic conference gathering in 2019, with this book marking some of that collective ingenuity and endeavour.
In an age of fracturing, division, and anatomizing of people and culture, reviewing the history of bridge-making can help us find some appropriate metaphors that are useful in the context of building bridges in the field of applied arts and health. Art is after all an adept manipulator of the use of metaphor, forming a nexus of imagery that artists have used across the centuries to help communicate felt dimensions of experience. Firstly, bridges come in all shapes and sizes and in a choice of construction materials. Most likely the earliest bridges were fallen trees and stepping-stones, going back more than 6000 years. In the thirteenth century BCE boardwalk bridges were constructed across marshlands, helping people cross the murky territory. The Arkadiko Bridge, dating from the thirteenth century BCE, in the Peloponnese in southern Greece is one of the oldest arch bridges still in existence and use today; connecting disconnected communities. Bridges do not always have to be rigid as we see in rope bridges, a simple type of suspension bridge that was used by the Inca civilization in the Andes mountains of South America, just prior to European colonization in the sixteenth century.
In Canada and the USA, numerous timber-covered bridges were built in the late 1700s helping to protect from stormy weather. There are of course many other kinds of bridges - cantilever or small footbridges; suspension bridges that use cables, arch, beam, truss, or multi-way bridges to name just a few. All these bridges respond to their particular environment and help to make connection and exchange possible, no matter the medium. We too can build bridges in many forms across our various domains of research and practice. By building bridges, we bring people together. Bridges allow people to move freely and cross obstacles. The bridge is a useful metaphor; it helps to remind us of our common connections and how we can build through mutually collective ways of strengthening our shared interests to advance the field of applied arts and health. It is this shared vision that has driven many artists to pursue their work as artist-educator-researchers .
The authors of this book invite you to consider how your work helps build bridges through ingenuity, collective endeavour, and creative vision.
Foreword
Shaun McNiff
The Beauty of the Bridge
The process of ‘building bridges’ which informed the August 2019 Ironbridge conference and the founding of the Journal of Applied Arts & Health ten years earlier, continues to grow as a fundamental need in our world. It counters the acceleration of divisions that undermine the natural interdependence of participants in the larger community of creation that holds and sustains us all. The iconic eighteenth century UNESCO World Heritage structure traversing the River Severn’s Ironbridge Gorge served as the guiding image for the conference goal of connecting art, health, and education. The bridge also evoked a sense of the lasting power of skillfully engineered and artistically significant forms applied to the needs of daily life and well-being.

FIGURE F.1: Shaun McNiff, Photo of Ironbridge, Telford, UK , 2019. Courtesy of S. McNiff.
In creating and leading the conference, Ross Prior was inspired by how the bridge, with its rich history and sustained relevance to the world today, evokes many areas of significance for our work with the applied ar