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X-WR-CALNAME:Research Symposium - Cultural Appropriation: Issues in Art The
 rapy Research\, Practice\, and the Arts
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DESCRIPTION:9:30AM-3:00PM. |  Free to attend ($35 for 3 CE credits) | Unive
 rsity Hall - Roski | Lunch and Refreshments included \n\nREGISTER NOW\n\n1
 3th Annual Art Therapy Research Symposium\n\nTheme: Cultural Appropriation
 : Issues in Art Therapy Research\, Practice\, and the Arts\n\nThe 13th Ann
 ual Art Therapy Research Symposium examines cultural appropriation\, appre
 ciation\, and ethical engagement in art therapy research\, clinical practi
 ce\, and the arts. This year’s symposium brings together interdisciplina
 ry perspectives to explore how cultural knowledge is created\, sustained\,
  interpreted\, and\, at times\, misrepresented across contexts.\n\nThe sym
 posium foregrounds inquiry-driven\, reflexive\, and community-engaged rese
 arch approaches\, emphasizing how cultural knowledge is shared across gene
 rations\, shaping its understanding and application in practice.  Particip
 ants will engage with guiding questions such as: How do we design research
  that honors cultural heritage? Whose knowledge is centered\, and how is i
 t interpreted? What ethical responsibilities do researchers\, artists\, an
 d practitioners hold in relation to the communities they engage? Through t
 his lens\, inquiry is framed as a relational and ethically grounded proces
 s across clinical\, artistic\, scholarly\, and community-based contexts.\n
 \nThe symposium features interactive presentations with featured guest sch
 olars:\n\nTara Gujadhur – Tradition\, Transmission\, and Belonging: Ethn
 ic Minority Craft in a Global Context.  This session explores how craft kn
 owledge is learned\, practiced\, and socially anchored across generations 
 in ethnic minority and Indigenous communities\, with the Oma of Laos as a 
 central case study within a wider global context. The talk considers how t
 raditional techniques and motifs circulate beyond their original settings\
 , distinguishing meaningful cultural exchange from misappropriation and ex
 tractive reuse in design\, education\, and therapeutic environments.\n\nAm
 y Díaz-Infante Siqueiros - Surfacing Ancestral Knowledge and Identity thr
 ough Narrative Art.  This artist presentation will feature narrative artwo
 rk that documents the Chicana experience. Themes here include migration\, 
 liminality\, respectability politics\, magical realism\, separation\, and 
 reciprocity. This talk will explore how both the content and the practice 
 of art making serves as a method for connecting to self\, the body\, and c
 ommunity.\n\nAnd faculty panelists:\n\nMelody Rod-ari\, whose art historic
 al and museum-based research examines Buddhist visual culture in Southeast
  Asia alongside the histories of collecting\, display\, and repatriation o
 f Asian art\, raising critical questions about ownership\, representation\
 , and cultural sovereignty in institutional contexts. \n\nWilfried Souly\,
  a choreographer\, performer\, educator\, and cultural producer originally
  from Burkina Faso and based in Los Angeles. His work merges West African/
 Mandé traditional dance\, contemporary movement\, and martial arts to inv
 estigate themes of identity\, migration\, resilience\, and social justice.
 \n\nDivine Kwasi Gbagbo\, whose specialized focus in Ethnomusicology and M
 usicology examines the understudied relationship between Christianity and 
 Ghanaian Ewe musical practices.  His work explores the intersection betwee
 n music\, dance and spirituality and how traditional music blends within t
 he contemporary global narrative.\n\nTogether\, these perspectives invite 
 participants to examine how art therapy and the arts intersect with global
  histories of cultural exchange\, displacement\, and power\, and to develo
 p more ethically grounded\, reflexive\, and culturally responsive approach
 es to both research and practice.\n\nINTENDED AUDIENCE\n\nOPEN TO THE PUBL
 IC\n\nNotice of Filming and Photography\n\nWhen you attend this event\, yo
 u enter an area where photography\, audio\, and video recording may occur 
 on behalf of Loyola Marymount University. By entering the event premises\,
  you consent to such recording media and its release\, publication\, exhib
 ition\, or reproduction in any medium or format whatsoever now existing or
  hereafter created.\n\n*********
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LOCATION:University Hall\, ROSKI
SUMMARY:Research Symposium - Cultural Appropriation: Issues in Art Therapy 
 Research\, Practice\, and the Arts
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 -symposium
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CATEGORIES:College of Communication and Fine Arts
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