Season 4. Ep.12 Dr. Savneet Talwar - Art Therapist (USA)

Dr. Savneet Tawar (she/ her) is a Chicago based American Studies scholar, fiber artist, educator, art therapist and somatic coach. She is currently a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the art therapy and fiber and material studies departments. Her art and therapeutic practice is informed by her doctoral training in anti-oppressive frameworks, social justice and intersectional feminism. She strives to embrace abolitionist concepts to enhance her art practice and pedagogy.

 As an interdisciplinary fiber and feminist artist, her work exists at the intersection of archives, memory, language, feminist politics and questions of resistance. She is interested in the contradictions of feminist and archival matters – what and who is worthy of being a subject of discourse? What colonial narratives and images continue to define matters of the global south?

 Talwar has initiated various community based projects such as the Wandering Uterus Project; the CEW (Creatively Empowered Women) Design Studio and most recently the Mending Lab, a pop up art studio to facilitate conversation on the role of repair in communities.  She is also a member of the P O Box Collective, a social practice space in Rogers Park, Chicago.

She is the author of Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersections and has published numerous articles in national and international journals on ethics of care, intersectional feminism, feminist pedagogy, the politics of crafting, culture and identity, ethics, law and cultural competence and trauma informed art therapy.

https://www.savneettalwar.com/

Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersection

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