Applied Arts and Health: Building Bridges across Arts, Therapy, Health, Education, and Community

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Ross W. Prior Mitchell Kossak (Lesley University, USA)

Applied Arts and Health

Building Bridges across Arts, Therapy, Health, Education, and Community

Ross W. Prior, Mitchell Kossak (Lesley University, USA), Teresa A. Fisher (New York University.)

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Intellect Books
26 December 2022

The Arts: General & Reference; Performance art; Research & information: general; Education; Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)

Fresh insights into research approaches within the arts, in and for health and well-being.

This forward-thinking collection documents diverse approaches to creative arts engagement, building metaphoric bridges across the field with an emphasis on creativity and well-being in education and community development. The book advances integrative and multimodal art-based processes by focusing on applied arts and health practice, research, scholarship, expressive arts therapy, community, and education. It aims to give prominence to art-based research and provides useful support to those working and researching across the field.

Bringing together a collection of world-leading authors in the field and spanning a range of cultures, the projects documented in the volume are a significant new addition to cohesive research in this area. In continuing to advance applied arts and health, while furthering a commitment to art-based research, Applied Arts and Health places emphasis upon the artistic research methodology, underscoring that art (performing art and visual art) is the evidence. It offers the field an integral vision for the arts both theoretically and practically. Further, the book breaks down the silos that have been unhelpful in the development of practice.

Edited by: Ross W. Prior, Mitchell Kossak (Lesley University, USA), Teresa A. Fisher (New York University.)
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789386257
ISBN 10: 178938625X
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 26 December 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Applied Arts and Health: Building Bridges across Arts, Therapy, Health, Education, and Community

Many incisive metaphors frame this impressive book concerning the interstices between art and health in community settings: bridges, walls, diseases and pandemics, souls and identities, threads and stories. The authors and editors skillfully weave these and similar images into a fabric of rich hues and tones to demonstrate how art, a timeless frame of being, holds together illness and wellness, thinking and creating, isolation and communitas, mind and body and spirit. Read this book, dear artists, arts educators, therapists and community workers, with an open heart, and you will find your way through the antipodes. -- Robert Landy, Professor Emeritus, Founding Director of the Drama Therapy Program, New York University This stimulating book will help provide the foundations for building new bridges of mutual understanding and collaboration in applied arts and health. -- Stephen Clift, Professor Emeritus, Canterbury Christ Church University This book is indeed one of bridge building. Through the voices of many experts in the field, we are challenged to reconsider old paradigms, embrace new perspectives and imagine the future of applied arts and healthcare in a post-pandemic world. -- Lisa M. Wong, MD, Associate Co-Director, Arts and Humanities Initiative, Harvard Medical School