Applied Arts and Health (EPUB) von Ross W. Prior

Edited collection presents diverse approaches in creative arts engagement, with emphasis on creativity and wellbeing in education and community development. Focussing on applied arts and health practice, research, scholarship, expressive arts therapy, community and education, it advances integrative and multimodal art-based processes. 62 b&w illus.

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