Open AccessWhat are You All Going to Do to Keep Black Women in Art Therapy?
Author(s) -
Leah Gipson,
Marisol Norris,
Leah Ashanti Amaral,
Johanna Tesfaye,
Anna R. Hiscox
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
voices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-1611
DOI - 10.15845/voices.v21i1.3200
Subject(s) - the arts , art therapy , manifesto , music therapy , psychology , medical education , visual arts , psychotherapist , pedagogy , medicine , art , political science , law
In this viewpoint, the authors describe their impressions of a 2018 conference and the significance of participating in a learning environment that centered on arts therapists of color. Collectively, two art therapy educators, a music therapy educator, one new professional art therapist, and one art therapy graduate student, question the maintenance of professional norms that have at times motivated BIPOC students and practitioners to leave the creative arts therapies in search of other professional places to thrive. The article concludes with a Womanist Manifesto for Arts Therapies Education.