Art-Care Practices for Restoring the Communal: Education, Co-Inquiry, and Healing

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. This text benefits socially-engaged artists, arts-based researchers, artist-philosophers, activists, students, teachers, organizers, therapists, caregivers, and more.

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 matrixial form of communicaring through art and reverence. This theoretically informed and practice-based book bridges the individual with the communal in Creation-centred 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 or group facilitation. This book benefits socially engaged artists, arts-based researchers, artist-philosophers, activists, students, teachers, organizers, therapists, caregivers, and more.

• | Author: Barbara A. Bickel, R. Michael Fisher
• | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• | Publication Date: Dec 28, 2022
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781032109947
• | ISBN-10: 1032109947