Black Aesthetics: Upsetting, Undoing, and Uncanonizing the Arts Therapies

Marisol Norris; Britton Williams; Leah Gipson

doi:10.15845/voices.v21i1.3287

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Marisol Norris Creative Arts Therapies & Counseling, Drexel University, USA
Britton Williams Drama Therapy, New York University, USA
Leah Gipson Art Therapy & Counseling, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

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https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3287

Abstract

Editorial for Special Issue

Author Biographies

Marisol Norris, Creative Arts Therapies & Counseling, Drexel University, USA

Marisol Norris, PhD, is a music therapist, critical arts therapies educator, cultural worker, and founder of the Black Music Therapy Network, Inc. Her music therapy practice and supervisory experience have spanned medical and community health settings and include music therapy with adolescents experiencing housing insecurity, adults with psychiatric and dual diagnoses, families within the city court system and medically fragile children. These experiences have profoundly contributed to her multicultural relational lens and her dedication to fostering culturally sustaining, liberatory frameworks in music therapy education and practice. Her teaching and cultural work is an extension of a broader commitment to healing justice and dismantling relational and structural violence through community-based advocacy, education, and action.

Britton Williams, Drama Therapy, New York University, USA

Britton Williams is a Black woman. Drama Therapist. A myriad of hyphens and ands. She is a teacher and student. A thinker and dreamer. She is urgently concerned with the possibilities that live with/in radical (re)imagining and the inextricable connectedness of healing and liberation. And …

Leah Gipson, Art Therapy & Counseling, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Leah Gipson is Assistant Professor in the Art Therapy and Counseling Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She is a registered and board-certified art therapist (ATR-BC), and a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Illinois, with a Master of Theological Studies. Leah is a board member for A Long Walk Home, an organization that uses the arts to empower young people to end violence against girls and women. She is also a board member of Praxis, an organization that provides affordable, democratically managed housing to individuals and families involved in social justice movement building. She is a co-founder of the BIPOC Student Fund by Black Arts Therapy Educators and an organizing member of the Critical Pedagogy in the Arts Therapies Alliance, formed in 2018.

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Black Aesthetics

Upsetting, Undoing, and Uncanonizing the Arts Therapies

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Marisol Norris, Creative Arts Therapies & Counseling, Drexel University, USA

Britton Williams, Drama Therapy, New York University, USA

Leah Gipson, Art Therapy & Counseling, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

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