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It explains healing as an outcome of making, experimenting, shared witnessing, and authentic participation in life and community. 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Allen, Chicago, IL  \nWhen we founded the Open Studio Project in 1995, Dayna Block, Deborah Gadiel, and I agreed to state unequivocally that the work we were doing was not art therapy. This choice stemmed from a respect for the intention of the Ethical Guidelines of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) to protect the recipient of art therapy services from the potential harm that is inherent in any non-equal relationship, for example, by protecting confidentiality and the like. However, our choice was also influenced by my understanding, after over 20 years of clinical practice, of how profoundly “linked to the medical concepts of identifying and treating pathology” (Vick, 2008, p. 4) art therapy practice was at that time. By stepping out of the world of art therapy and its language of “treatment,”“therapy,” and “diagnosis,” we were making an essentially political statement that creativity is more closely aligned to an individual’s health than to any disease process. Additionally, we were stating our willingness to abandon the role of expert by eschewing the role of therapist in favor of the role of artist-in-residence. We viewed the latter role as that ofa kind of fellow traveler whose primary contribution was to “hold the space” by being fully present in his or her own creative process while cultivating a relaxed awareness, or compassionate disinterest, in what others were doing (Gadiel, 1992) .  \nIn this view, the healing aspects of art making arise from the making and doing, the trying and failing, the experimenting and succeeding, alongside others. Rather than focusing on the therapeutic relationship, the open studio process seeks to promote the relationship between each of us and the artist within, or the self with the soul. We believe creative expression is something to be engaged in autonomously and ideally while in the company of others who would provide the witnessing community that supports our shared engagement with the stuff of life. The community studio, as we conceive it, is a place of all possibility, where anything can be expressed as a moment on life’s continuum. Never evidence of a fixed condition, artis an inquiry where the self is lost and found and lost again, over and over, and meaning is renewed in the process. For this reason, there are no efforts to fix, cure, change, or interpret but merely to witness the flow of expression in the images that arrive and to learn from  \nEditor’s note: Pat B. Allen, PhD, ATR, co-founder of the Open Studio Project, is an adjunct associate professor of art therapy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Correspondence concerning this article may be addressed to the author at[pallen@artic.edu](pallen@artic.edu)  \nthem. The healing occurs as a natural unfolding of the artist’s truth as expressed through the images; the more fully these artists come to know themselves, the more they are able to authentically participate in life and community (Allen, 2005) .  \nVick’s paper clearly shows that AATA’s ethical and practice guidelines are more elastic and adaptable than we gave them credit for a mere 15 years ago. Art therapistsnow embrace and endorse numerous variations of the community studio, often from free standing models such as the Open Studio Project and OffCenter Community Arts, as well as those such as Artworks, 1 a new storefront studio that is linked to a traditional mental health agency headed by art therapist Valery Schuman in collaboration with Cathy Moon, faculty member of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Community studios vary in terms of which customs and procedures ofa mental health program they retain, if any. Future studies might be devoted to describing and assessing these decisions and whether they affect the nature of the artists’ experiences.  \nThe comparison of the U.S. and European studios affords us a wonderful opportunity to look more closely atthe underly","cbCaiux21Hmes1K1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiux21Hmes1K1","pdf",66858,"English","# Underlying principles of community-based art studios\n## Reframing community studios beyond art therapy\n## Healing through shared creation and witnessing\n## Comparing U.S. and European studio models\n## Future directions for study","[{\"question\":\"Why did the Open Studio Project founders explicitly reject the label “art therapy”?\",\"answer\":\"They aimed to respect ethical guidance about protecting recipients from harm inherent in non-equal relationships and also reflected on how art therapy practice at the time was tied to medical concepts of pathology, treatment, and diagnosis.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the community studio process describe healing and personal change?\",\"answer\":\"Healing is portrayed as a natural unfolding of an artist’s truth through making and shared witnessing, where deeper self-knowledge enables more authentic participation in life and community.\"},{\"question\":\"What key differences are noted between U.S. and European community studio movements?\",\"answer\":\"The text suggests European studios often serve a more stable, fixed, and comparatively homogeneous long-term population, while U.S. studios emphasize the studio as a “mixing place” that brings socially marginalized participants together with mainstream members.\"}]","Commentary on Community-Based Art Studios - Underlying Principles | PDF",1792073954]