Book Review: Vibrant Voices: Women, Myth, and the Arts by Sig Reger and Marna Hauk

Barbara Bickel

Barbara Bickel Southern Illinois University

Abstract

Reger, S., & Hauk, M. (Eds.). (2018). Vibrant voices: Women, myth, and the arts. Brooklyn, NY: Women and Myth Press. ISBN: 9780996961783

A book review of Vibrant Voices: Women, Myth, and the Art edited by Sig Reger and Marna Hauk. This is a non-traditional art history book that has emerged from a circle of scholars involved with the Association of the Study of Women and Mythology who study, practice art and teach in the areas of women and myth, women's spirituality and Goddess scholarship.

Author Biography

Barbara Bickel, Southern Illinois University

Barbara Bickel is an artist, researcher, teacher and Emerita Faculty of Art Education, Southern Illinois University. She co-founded and co-directs Studio M*: A Research Creation Lab Intersecting Arts, Culture & Healing in Calgary Alberta, Canada where she teaches art as an inquiry process and engages social art practices with the human and the more than human world. A co-founder and active member of the Gestare Art Collective (2009-) her art and performances have been exhibited internationally. She is co-editor of the book Arts-Based and Contemplative Practices in Research and Teaching: Honoring Presence, book series editor of Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research, and co-editor of Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal. To learn more about her art and writing go to www.barbarabickel.ca and www.studiom.space.