Craft in Art Therapy

Lauren Leone, DAT, ATR-BC, LMHC, is an assistant professor of art therapy at Lesley University, maintains a private practice, and facilitates a community-based art therapy group. Her research interests include the therapeutic benefits of craft activism and how emancipatory pedagogy informs art therapy practice and education.

PART I: Craft as a Tool for Transformation and Self-Care:1. Crafting the Artist Book as Embodied, Relational Practice; 2. Healing With Fire: The Use of Hot Glass in Art Therapy; 3. From Clay to Ceramic: An Alchemical Process of Self-Transformation; 4. Demystifying the Individualistic Approach to Self-care: Sewing as a Metaphorical Process for Documenting Relational and Communal Care in Disability Culture; 5. Emptying the Jar: Crochet to Unpack Toxic Racial Stress; PART II: Craft as Culturally Resonant and Accessible; 6. Embroidering Pieces of Place; 7. Healing Roots of Indigenous Crafts: Adapting Traditions of India for Art Therapy Practice; 8. Integrating Traditional Crafts within Clinical Practice: A Cross-Cultural Group Case Study; 9. Using Crafts in Art Therapy Through an Intersectional Feminist Empowerment Lens: The Case of Bedouin Embroidery in Israel; PART III: Craft as Empowerment and Activism;10. Finding Our Way Together: Exploring the Therapeutic Benefits of Collaborative Craft Activism;11. Zines, the DIY Ethic, and Empowering Marginalized Identities; 12. Alone in the Desert: Making Sense of the Senseless Through Story Cloths;13. Empowerment Through Mentorship: Peer-Led Craft Workshops in a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital; 14. Queer Ethos in Art Therapy; 15. Quilting Across Prison Walls: Craftwork, Social Practice, and Radical Empathy.