A Contemplative and Artful Métissage of Inquiry and Response

Authors

Jackie Mitchell, Mount Saint Vincent UniversityFollow
Nicholas Phillips, Mount Saint Vincent UniversityFollow
Robyn Trail, Mount Saint Vincent UniversityFollow
Susan C. Walsh, Mount Saint Vincent UniversityFollow
Barbara Bickel, Southern Illinois University CarbondaleFollow
Wendalyn Bartley, Independent ArtistFollow
Medwyn McConachy, Independent artistFollow

Abstract

In this mixed media métissage, we offer an exploration of artful and contemplative inquiry and response. We are a group of seven artist-researchers who engage with contemplative practices associated with various spiritual traditions, including spiritual feminist, Wiccan, Mi’kmaw, and Tibetan Buddhist, integral to all of which are beliefs about human interconnectedness with the energies of all sentient beings, the Earth, and beings in the spirit worlds. As artist-researchers, we engage with a range of arts disciplines including poetry, creative non-fiction, storytelling, sounding, visual art, filmmaking, and photography. Together, we invite the reader/listener/viewer--as co-creator—into the potentialities of our métissage: the narratives, poems, photographs, visual art, film, and sounding (audio) files—as well as into the spaces between and beyond.

Recommended Citation

Mitchell, Jackie; Phillips, Nicholas; Trail, Robyn; Walsh, Susan C.; Bickel, Barbara; Bartley, Wendalyn; and McConachy, Medwyn (2020) "A Contemplative and Artful Métissage of Inquiry and Response," Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal: Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 7.
Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/atj/vol5/iss1/7

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