Art Therapy for Social Justice

Savneet K. Talwar, PhD, ATR-BC, is a professor in the graduate art therapy program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has published articles in Arts in Psychotherapy, Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, and Gender Issues in Art Therapy. Her current projects are Wandering Uterus Project: A DIY Movement for Reproductive Justice and CEW (Creatively Empowered Women) Design Studio, a craft, sewing, and fabrication enterprise for Bosnian and South Asian women at the Hamdard Center in Chicago. She is also the past associate editor of Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association.

Section 1: Theoretical Framework 1. Beyond Multiculturalism and Cultural Competence: A Social Justice Vision in Art Therapy Talwar 2. Critiquing Art Therapy: History, Science, and Representation Talwar 3. Identity Matters: Questioning Trauma and Violence Through Art, Performance, and Social Practice Talwar 4. Intersectional Reflexivity: Considering Identities and Accountability for Art Therapists Talwar, Clinton, Sit, and Ospina 5. Envisioning Black Women’s Consciousness in Art Therapy Gipson Section 2: Praxis: Public Therapeutics and Art Therapy 6. "‘You Want To Be Well?’: Self-Care as a Black Feminist Intervention in Art Therapy" Tillet and Tillet 7. Radical Caring and Art Therapy: Decolonizing Immigration and Gender Violence Services Ravichandran 8. Res(Crip)ting Art Therapy: Disability Culture and Art as a Social Justice Intervention Yi 9. "The Sweetness of Money": Creatively Empowered Women (CEW) Design Studio, Feminists Pedagogy and the Art Therapy Talwar