AS OF MARCH 12, 2020: Due to the uncertainty of the health crisis we currently face and the University’s decision to move classes online and cancel or postpone campus events until at least April 6, we have decided to postpone our Arts, Design, and Health Research Summit. We will focus on planning events and activities to be held during fall semester that will deepen our investigation of arts/design/health possibilities at Penn State. Please contact adri@psu.edu to express interest in a future ADRI event such as this.
Location: 125 Borland Building (Borland Project Space)
These performances are part of the Arts, Design, and Health Research Summit organized by the Arts & Design Research Incubator and the Hamer Center for Community Design at Penn State: https://adri.psu.edu/news/arts-design-and-health-exploration-whats-possible-penn-state
Dramatizing Stories of Lived Experience: Bringing out the unfamiliar from the most familiar Ethnodrama in research, learning and health
Performed by Cheryl McLean, independent scholar, writer, ethnodramatist
The Anxiety Project
Performed by William Doan, ADRI Director, professor of theatre, artist-in-residence in the College of Nursing, 2019-20 Penn State Laureate
Cheryl L. McLean M.A. Independent Scholar, Writer, Ethnodramatist (masters Creative Arts Therapies, Concordia University, Montreal, BA Social Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London) has edited three books on arts and research, Creative Arts in Humane Medicine (2014), Creative Arts for Community and Cultural Change (2011) and Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice (2010), Brush Education Inc., Edmonton. She was founder and publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice (IJCAIP) with international board members across disciplines, leaders in the arts, education, healthcare, design and business. She taught the courses Problems in Education Research in Creativity Summer Institute, MEd Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Creativity in Death and Bereavement, University of Western Ontario, London, and has facilitated the workshop, Living Stories for Hope and Change for allied health professionals, physicians, psychiatrists, mental health counsellors as well as sex abuse survivors. She speaks widely about the arts in research and was a guest presenter for The American Medical Association (AMSA) Medical Humanities scholars’ program web podcast and has presented keynotes for The Alberta Psychiatric Association, Congress of The Humanities, University of Western Ontario and Acadia University Summer Institute among others and has helped advance the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in leading international journals (The Advancement of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy,V. 12, No. 2 (2015). She is also an ethnodramatist and studied acting under the direction of Muriel Gold, former AD of The Saidye Bronfman Theatre, Montreal. Her research took place while working as a group therapist in residential homes where a number of her clients were Holocaust survivors. She wrote and performed the solo ethnodrama Remember Me for Birds about aging, mental health and autonomy which premiered at McGill Medical School. She has written and performed plays based on dietetic research about aging, care and food issues. She is currently writing a new book, The Walkers: Contemporary Stories of Life in Transition Challenge and Change with essays that explore the contemporary realities of modern living, change and survival.
William J. Doan, Ph.D. is a past president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a Fellow in the College of Fellows of The American Theatre. In addition to articles in scholarly journals, Doan has co-authored three books and several plays. He has created solo performance projects at a variety of venues across the U.S., and abroad. His current work includes a new performance piece, Frozen In The Toilet Paper Aisle of Life, part of a larger project titled The Anxiety Project. Work from this project includes multiple short graphic narratives published in the Annals of Internal Medicine/Graphic Medicine, and Cleaver Magazine. He is a Professor of Theatre in the College of Arts and Architecture, Director of the Arts and Design Research Incubator, and Artist-in-Residence for the College of Nursing at The Pennsylvania State University. Doan is serving as the Penn State Laureate for 2019-2020. You can see more of his work at his website, https://williamjdoan.com/
