Creative Health and Wellbeing through Artmaking Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This short course explores how creative expression can enhance emotional resilience and wellbeing and provides a structured yet immersive approach to using art as a tool for personal and professional development.
Through guided art making, self-reflective practices, and facilitated discussions, participants will gain insights into arts and health practices that support self-expression and mental wellbeing.
Those seeking personal growth will benefit from dedicated time to develop their creative voice. Those interested in community work will gain valuable techniques applicable to various social settings. Learners also gain insights managing personal wellbeing and acquiring tools to apply this knowledge in areas such as work and family life.
This course is available both on campus or online.
Who this course is for
The course is for anyone interested in understanding how and why health and wellbeing works within the art-making context. The course is not about talent or skills but about exploring the links between physical and mental health and creativity.
Key information
Topics covered
- Hands on drawing, painting and sculpture sessions
- Short seminars with resources and guides
- Group feedback and dialogue
- Self-reflection
- One to one tutorials and feedback
- Connections to the larger network of UK Arts & Health
Learning outcomes
- Experienced how the arts can help meet major challenges facing health and social care including ageing, long-term conditions, loneliness and physical activity
- Have explored the difference between art as therapy and creative art therapy
- Students will produce works of art throughout the course
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
On campus or Online
- Colour soft pastels and oil pastels
- Poster paints and assorted brushes
- A4 and A3 pads of cartridge paper
- A4 pastel paper
- Scissors
- Pencils and pens (assorted)
- Colour markers (assorted)
- Glue stick
- Masking tape
- String
- Magazines (to cut)
If you are taking this course online, please see our Guide to taking online short courses.
Tutor
R.M. Sánchez-Camus
R.M. Sánchez-Camus (Marcelo) is a creative practitioner whose research interests include audience interaction, embodied mythologies, mindfulness, legacy, and spatial imagination. Marcelo is the co-founder of Social Art Network and recently co-convened the Social Art Summit in Sheffield in developing the world's first Social Art Biennial. He has extensive experience in arts & health with a focus on arts as a therapeutic intervention in the dying process and can be heard on BBC Radio 4 Four Thought podcast. He holds a BA in Fine Art from School of Visual Arts, NYC an MA in Scenography from Central Saint Martins UAL and a PhD in Social Practice from Brunel University, London.Book a course
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