Applied Arts and Health

Ross W. Prior is Professor of Learning and Teaching in the Arts in Higher Education at the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. Prior is best known for his books Teaching Actors and Using Arts as Research in Learning and Teaching (Intellect) and his work in applied arts and health as founding principal editor of the Journal of Applied Arts and Health, first published in 2010. Professor Mitchell Kossak is a professor and former director in the Expressive Therapies programme at Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA as well as a licensed clinical counsellor and registered expressive arts therapist who has presented his work and research on rhythmic attunement, improvisation, psychospiritual and community-based approaches to working with trauma at conferences nationally and internationally. He is the Associate Editor of the international Journal of Applied Arts and Health and author of Attunement in Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward an Understanding of Embodied Empathy. Teresa A. Fisher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Bronx Community College (City University of New York/CUNY) in the USA. She is the author of Post-Show Discussions in New Play Development (2014), the Assistant Editor for the Journal of Applied Arts and Health (Intellect), and the Producer of New Plays for Young Audiences at New York University.  

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