{"title":"Creative space for navigating complex times: Using art-based inquiry to respond to uncertainty during COVID-19","authors":"K. Becker, Kelly Clark/Keefe, Erikah White","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00093_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00093_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article shares the outcomes of a participatory art-based inquiry conducted during stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19 and the impact on the mental health and well-being of college-age students (age 18–21) in the United States. Participants engaged in artmaking sessions alongside researchers to respond to prompts geared to help them process their experiences. Findings that emerged from the project suggest that art-based practices in a community setting may support students in navigating times of great uncertainty by offering participants a chance to express themselves and process complicated feelings. Based on our findings, we offer art-based practices as a way to support young adults as they process the negative impact of the pandemic, transition back to campus, and navigate the college experience.","PeriodicalId":93017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied arts & health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42770562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The use of art therapy videos for children and teenagers living with cancer during COVID-19","authors":"C. Griffin","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00095_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00095_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores a practitioner’s response to the limits on face-to-face art therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to the creation of pre-recorded art therapy videos for clients. This work took place at Challenge, a not-for-profit charity located in Melbourne, Australia, that supports children and teenagers living with cancer. A description of scripting, filming and editing processes is presented, including frameworks and methods that promoted sensory enrichment, curiosity and creative expression through the videos. The strengths and limitations of pre-recorded art therapy videos are discussed to encourage broader conversations on their use in the field.","PeriodicalId":93017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied arts & health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44918309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ananda Breed, Chaste Uwihoreye, Eric Ndushabandi, M. Elliott, K. Pells
{"title":"Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) at Home: Digital art-based mental health provision in response to COVID-19","authors":"Ananda Breed, Chaste Uwihoreye, Eric Ndushabandi, M. Elliott, K. Pells","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00094_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00094_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article will provide an example of how the ‘Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Online psychosocial support through the arts in Rwanda’ project used digital artbased workshops to facilitate social and community cohesion and mental health provision. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an increased need for psychosocial support due to the economic and social pressures of lockdown and yet many individuals had less access to mental health provision. While many mental health services around the world went online, there was still a gap between the Global South and Global North in terms of digital literacy, access to smart phones and computers, and the variation between psychosocial support through individual vs. collective healing alongside Indigenous and traditional vs. western psychosocial approaches. Implications for the use of art-based digital methods as a tool for mental health provision during and after the wake of the pandemic are explored.","PeriodicalId":93017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied arts & health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66717150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interview with Dr Radhika Patnala: Founder and director, Sci-Illustrate","authors":"Ross W. Prior","doi":"10.1386/JAAH_00061_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAAH_00061_7","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>\u0000 \u0000 </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":93017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied arts & health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43827210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Hancox, Sandra Gattenhof, Sasha Mackay, Helen Klaebe
{"title":"Pivots, arts practice and potentialities: Creative engagement, community wellbeing and arts-led research during COVID-19 in Australia","authors":"D. Hancox, Sandra Gattenhof, Sasha Mackay, Helen Klaebe","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00088_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00088_1","url":null,"abstract":"Pre-dating COVID-19 it was widely acknowledged that there was a loneliness epidemic and that prolonged loneliness and reduced human touch results in increased propensity to heart disease, stroke and clinical dementia. Given such statistics, and the use of isolation and shielding as a health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative that creative projects or research investigations embed strategies to address the potential fragmentation of community and increased difficulty of social connection. This discussion examines two Australian art-based projects – ‘A Place in Our Art’ and ‘Shorewell Presents … Dear Friend’ – to illustrate the use of arts and cultural activities to maintain and support social connection. The article draws on arts-health and performance theory to unpack project design and outcomes of using both physical and virtual creative art-based engagement strategies in a crisis to entice continued participation and support wellbeing.","PeriodicalId":93017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied arts & health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47750096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Pufahl, Savannah Simerly, Hannah B. Bayne, Camilo Reina Munoz
{"title":"Virtually Commedia: An interactive online theatre programme for LGBTQ+ youth","authors":"J. Pufahl, Savannah Simerly, Hannah B. Bayne, Camilo Reina Munoz","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00091_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00091_1","url":null,"abstract":"Many individuals experienced increased isolation and loneliness due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on social activities, yet the impacts of this isolation can be more pronounced for vulnerable populations such as LGBTQ+ youth. In order to offer a destigmatized space for LGBTQ+ youth to connect during the pandemic, facilitators at the University of Florida modified an LGBTQ+ youth theatre programme (Theatre Connect) to be delivered via an online platform. In the spring of 2021, facilitators developed an eight-week Commedia dell’Arte curriculum that was delivered over Zoom to nine youth. Although modified to fit the needs of the group, the programme provided the opportunity for urban and rural youth to connect with one another and develop theatre skills in a safe environment. These field notes describe curriculum development as well as challenges, successes and feedback. Due to the success of this programme, Theatre Connect will maintain online programming in future seasons.","PeriodicalId":93017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied arts & health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43979878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connecting within: Digital collage as art-based research to process a pandemic","authors":"M. J. Ferro","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00087_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00087_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the use of digital collage as art-based research (ABR) to process the COVID-19 pandemic by an employed art therapist. The researcher/artist created a series of digital collages over a four-month period that were explored symbolically and metaphorically to comprehend a period of collective grief. The investigation explores digital collage as an applicable ABR method and highlights the importance of expressive therapists creating their own art, especially during times of crises.","PeriodicalId":93017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied arts & health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43659289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID-19: A catalyst for online creativity for individuals with a life-limiting illness","authors":"A. Roberts","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00092_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00092_1","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic acted as a catalyst for the programme explored in this article. Developed to fill a gap in face-to-face support programmes for those with a life-limiting illness, the Live Well, Die Well programme offered participants the opportunity to experiment with various art-forms in online workshops. This article reveals the content and practice of three workshops facilitated by the author who uses this experience to begin an exploration of the connection between artmaking, illness, identity and agency. Critiquing the relevance of the art therapy literature to this programme, the author explores the key role online artmaking can play in ameliorating the ‘total pain’ often experienced at the end of life.","PeriodicalId":93017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied arts & health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45622433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whine and dust: Coping during the pandemic using companioning autoethnographic art-based research","authors":"Jaime G. Dörner Alvarez, J. Simmonds","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00084_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00084_1","url":null,"abstract":"As collaborators from different nationalities, genders, cultural backgrounds, occupations and age cohorts, in this article we present an account of our art-based research during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project employed art practice as a way to deal with the noxious effects of isolation\u0000 on our mental health and well-being during the many prolonged lockdowns in Melbourne, Australia. With reference to Warren Lett’s concept of companioning, in our ongoing companioning dialogue through poetry and paintings, together with a final song, we explore our psychological struggles.\u0000 This contribution can be read in several ways: as an example of our research into art practice, as an artistic companioning dialogue between two writers and friends trying to make sense of and survive isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic and finally, as an offer, an invitation to explore\u0000 art as a cathartic and coping process in a companioning process, which we have termed companioning autoethnography.","PeriodicalId":93017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied arts & health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42046031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arts in Hospitals during COVID-19: Time to Reflect, hosted by CW+ (the charity for Chelsea & Westminster NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust), 22 January 2021, online","authors":"Karen Gray","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00076_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00076_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Arts in Hospitals during COVID-19: Time to Reflect, hosted by CW+ (the charity for Chelsea & Westminster NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust), 22 January 2021, online","PeriodicalId":93017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied arts & health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43236017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}