Using Feminist Advocacy, Collaboration, and Arts-based Practices to Heal Ourselves and Others

Abstract

We are two art educators who discuss how our individual and collaborative art-making practices, viewed through a feminist lens, enable us to empower ourselves and others to help repair or heal the world. We explain our personal and collaborative art-making processes through political activism in public arenas and in our daily lives using a Marking and Mapping® process with our conceptions of personal, collaborative, and public voice. We each present two individually authored visual statements along with two accompanying artworks and a collaborative piece that combines a written explanation and graphic example of our views about healing ourselves and the world.