Dialogue

CANCELED - Evidence of the Advancement of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice & Creative Arts in Humane Medicine

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 (Borland Project Space)

This session is 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. Faculty, students, and staff in all disciplines are invited to register for sessions.

Presentation: Evidence of the Advancement of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice: An international overview of research, programming and work in practice

Cheryl McLean, Independent Scholar, Writer, Ethnodramatist

This presentation explores broad applications of the arts in research and practice and will interest faculty, undergraduate and graduate students and professionals active in Health and Human Development, Nursing, Medicine, Psychiatry, Aging and Health, Counselling, Therapy and Mental Health and the Allied Health Professions, Social Sciences, Social Change Agents, Arts and Education, Music Education, Drama in Education and other disciplines

Topical research and inspiring real-life accounts will be presented from international innovators in health and across disciplines showing through illustrative examples of research in action how the creative arts in research and practice in varied forms can contribute toward greater understanding in medicine as well as improved health and quality of life for patients and practitioners.  There will be an experiential component followed by group reflection.

Discussion: Creative Arts in Humane Medicine: Touching the heart of what it is to be human through the arts

Moderated by William Doan, ADRI Director, professor of theatre, artist-in-residence in the College of Nursing, 2019-20 Penn State Laureate

Suggested questions:

  1. How can the arts contribute toward a more caring and empathic approach to medicine?
  2. How can the arts offer hope for change in learning and health practice?
  3. How can engaging in arts methods be helpful for practitioner wellness and help us embody and express feelings about our lives and work?

Please register if you will participate in the moderated discussion after the presentation; no need to register if you’d like to attend the presentation only: https://creative-arts-interdisciplinary-practice.eventbrite.com

 

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/