Art-Care Practices for Restoring the Communal

<p>This book contributes to a larger global call to radically re-create ourselves—to transform our fear and alienation from art Nature and ourselves. With compassion and grace the co-authors outline how everyone may access the gift of <i>Spontaneous Creation-Making</i> and change dominant narratives of individualism. Discovering interconnectivity through art-care we can dream courageously together into the unknown possibilities of a precarious future.</p><p><em>Art-care</em> as coined by the co-authors is a matrixial form of <i>communicaring</i> through art and reverence. This theoretically informed and practice-based book bridges the individual with the communal in Creation-centred ways that interweave the many parts with the whole. It provides examples of teachings practices and spontaneous creations of makers that will benefit those who want to integrate art-care into individual practices or group facilitation. This book benefits socially engaged artists arts-based researchers artist-philosophers activists students teachers organizers therapists caregivers and more.</p>