Author, scholar, and educator, Olivia Sagan (Professor and Head of Division of Psychology, Sociology, and Education at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) takes us on a tour of her lifelong passion for art and its interface with mental health. Olivia’s semi-autobiographical presentation builds on “Graceful Mysteries” her essay for the exhibition catalog Creating Connections: Self-Taught Artists in the Rosenthal Collection. It explores her research into the art-making process and why we continue to be fascinated by questions about the art-making process and mental well-being.
Drawing on Olivia’s narrative research with artists who are self-taught, survivors, and/or living with long-term mental illness, Mysterious Grace draws on theories of creativity; non-verbal narrative and re-scripting; and reparation and the power of connection. It also critiques the persistent inequities in access to art-making and encounters. The talk ends by asking the audience to consider the mystery inherent in art, and all that we don’t know about the grace of it.
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