A Window into Response Art Among Practicing Art Therapists
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Author
Simpson, Desire'e
Date
2023
Degree
Master of Arts in Art Therapy
Abstract
Art therapy is a profession that engages a person’s creative spirit to help solve problems,
understand self and others, and helps individuals visualize what cannot be easily communicated
verbally. This arts-based research (ABR) looks at the lived experience of making response art in
the midst of pandemic restrictions to in-person engagement. I reviewed recent shifts in
professional art therapy practice that have occurred in how art therapists have been able to
interface with their clients since the advent of Covid-19, and how those shifts have impacted art
therapists’ ability to create response art. It is expected that this study will inform new art
therapists how practicing art therapists believe response art helps deepen an understanding of
their clients, and the contexts in which their response art is made.