 | Art-Care Practices for Restoring the Communal: Education, Co-Inquiry, and Healing Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Education; Adult Education and Lifelong Learning; Mental Health; Curriculum Studies; Creative Arts & Expressive Therapies; Creativity; This book contributes to a larger global call to radically re-create ourselves--to transform our fear and alienation from art, Nature and ourselves. With compassion and grace, the co-authors outline how everyone may access the gift of Spontaneous Creation-Making and change dominant narratives of individualism. Discovering interconnectivity through art-care, we can dream courageously together into the unknown possibilities of a precarious future. Art-care, as coined by the co-authors, is a form of Matrixial communicaring through art and reverence. This theoretically-informed and practice-based book bridges the individual with the communal in creation-centered ways that interweave the many parts with the whole. It provides examples of teachings, practices, and spontaneous creations of makers that will benefit those who want to integrate art-care into individual practices and/or group facilitation. This book benefits socially-engaged artists, arts-based researchers, artist-philosophers, activists, students, teachers, organizers, therapists, caregivers, and more. Barbara Bickel is a ritual-centred artist, researcher, teacher and Emeritas Faculty of Art Education, Southern Illinois University and co-artistic director of Studio M*: A Collaborative Research Creation Lab Intersecting Arts, Culture & Healing. R. Michael Fisher is a visual-performative artist, researcher, teacher and education consultant, and director of In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute and co-artistic director of Studio M*: A Collaborative Research Creation Lab Intersecting Arts, Culture & Healing. |
