Using art for social transformation : international perspective for social workers, community workers and art therapists / edited by Eltje Bos and Ephrat Huss.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Social action art therapy. An Israel context -- 2 Applied storytelling and picture talk as a tool for system intervention, behavioural change and diminishing polarization -- 3 Using arts as a contact method in group work with latency age Arab and Jewish youth in Israel -- 4 Art in society at a time of political and cultural transformation: The Polish case -- 5 Future IDs at Alcatraz: Transforming lives in immediate and necessary ways

6 Group bonding through cutting, gluing, and sewing together: Using arts and crafts in social work with groups: "When members see what they have done with their own hands, this is a feeling no one can take away" -- 7 Interacting through art to re-empower prison inmates in constructing new self-appraisals -- 8 Socia(B)le art: Towards culture for all -- 9 Jamming through life: Social complexity and the arts -- 10 Social arts for recognition: Sociological perspectives on arts and youth identities -- 11 Compassion embodied -- the particular power of the arts

12 The art studio as public health practice: Mitigating the negative impacts of social inequality through community care -- 13 MOMU: A multiprofessional response to a multifaceted reality -- 14 Using reader's theater to enhance reflexive social work practice, research, and education -- 15 Harnessing structure and support in music-based activities -- 16 Madrid, city of women: A project to empower the social participation of women in the city -- 17 Oh, what a tangled web we weave!: the transformative intentions of socially engaged art

18 The art of making public: the politics of participation in participatory art practices -- 19 Evaluating arts projects and programmes designed for social impacts: The need for improved methods -- 20 Human Rights Tattoo: a Zoom conversation between Sander van Bussel, Maria Kint, and Eltje Bos about the Human Rights Tattoo project. 21 December 2021 -- Index

"Social arts are manifold and are initiated by multiple actors, spaces, and direction from many directions and intentions, but generally aim to generate personal, familial, group, community or general social transformation which can maintain and enhance personal and community resilience, communication, negotiation ,and transitions, as well as help with community building and rehabilitation, civic engagement, social inclusion, and cohesion. Occurring via community empowerment, institutions, arts in health, inter-ethnic conflict, and frames of lobbying for social change, social art can transform and disrupt power relations and hegemonic narratives, destigmatize marginalized groups, and humanize society through creating empathy for the other. With the focus of each chapter is on its methods, and theoretical orientation, the book can be used both in academic settings and for training social and art practitioners, as well as for social practitioners and artists in the field"-- Provided by publisher.