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Non-Artist' Meeting With Clay: Doing And Reflecting, Tamar Bar-On

Expressive Therapies Dissertations

This dissertation explores non-artist creators’ verbal and non-verbal dialogues with an art material - clay - and their accompanying reflective narratives. The objectives o f this arts based and qualitative research are to gain further insight into two aspects of the creative process for non-artists: what the creator does with the art material and what, upon reflection, she says about the material, the process, and the product. In addition, the participants’ perception of correspondences between the way they work with the art material and how they approach other life and learning situations are explored. The interaction between thinking and doing …