Free journal event: anti-oppressive art therapy
Join us for conversations about anti-oppressive art therapy with authors from the special issues on intersectionality (International Journal of Art Therapy), re-indigenization and anticolonialism (Canadian Journal of Art Therapy), and cultural humility (Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association).
Free journal event: anti-oppressive art therapy
Join us for conversations about anti-oppressive art therapy with authors from the special issues on intersectionality (International Journal of Art Therapy), re-indigenization and anticolonialism (Canadian Journal of Art Therapy), and cultural humility (Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association).
How to join
This event is free and open to everyone. Join through the Zoom link.
About the special issues
To highlight the importance of responsive, relevant and anti-oppressive practices, three art therapy journals collaborated internationally to publish sister special issues.
The issues included a diverse group of authors, peer reviewers, associate editors and editors with a broad range of lived and professional experiences. Each journal focussed on specific frameworks:
- International Journal of Art Therapy: Intersectionality
- Canadian Journal of Art Therapy: Re-indigenization and Anti-colonialism
- Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association: Cultural Humility
Everyone is welcome to join us on 1st December for conversations with authors from all three special issues and celebrate the diversity of art therapy practices represented through this international collaboration.
If you are a member of the British, Canadian, or American art therapy associations, you can access all of the special issues for free via your association’s website. Our members can access the journals via the memberzone.
On the day
Everyone will be invited to choose a conversation group from the four below. Following questions from the other authors, you will be invited to ask any questions you have for the authors of each article in turn.
1 Expanding art therapy paradigms
- Language is power: anti-oppressive, conscious language in art therapy practice by Alex Kapitan & Lynn Kapitan
- An art therapy education response: linking inequality and intersectional identity by Chris Wood, Jacqui Mckoy-Lewens, Uzma Kazi, Sangita Mistry, & Amy Henwood (IJAT)
- Groundwater: at the heart of the circle by Monica Carpendale
- Transforming power through cultural humility in the intercultural contact zone of art therapy by Lynn Kapitan
2 Co-creating art therapy education
- Untangling the invisible intersections of an art therapy doctoral candidate’s mixed identities by Danielle Chen & David Gussak
- International Online Art Therapy Education Program: Evaluating Cultural and Global Perspectives by Joyce Green, Einat Metzl & Ana Laura Trevino
- From practice to pedagogy: how lessons learned in the field helped decolonize creative therapies education by Michelle Moss, Tony Lee & Roslyn Rowen (CJAT)
3 Reimagining art therapy practice
- The humble chair: fostering culturally humble collaborations by Deanna Barton & Zachary Van Den Berg
- Knitting as a way of honoring Black ancestry and creating storytelling through community, belonging, and the reframing of grief: a womanist perspective by Hannah Taylor-Johnson
- Shifting the narrative: an intersectional exploration of art therapy in the Caribbean by Kim Valldejuli & Lesli-Ann Belnavis Elliott
- Art therapy, intersectionality and services for women in the criminal justice system by Hanna Hewins
4 Fostering authentic client relationships
- Power-from-within: somatic art therapy with an LGBTQIA+ teenager by Rivkah Hetherington & Luna
- Stepping into the circle: inviting spirit through medicine wheel teachings in the expressive therapies continuum by Megan Kanerahtenhá:wi Whyte
- Transracial adoption: art therapists’ views on facilitating children’s racial and adoptive identity by Ella Morrison-Derbyshire
- How does skin colour affect the therapeutic relationship in art psychotherapy? by Janina Sochanik
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