The Artist as Ritual Maker, Creatrix and Magical Healer: Symbolic Artmaking and Participation for the Purpose of Cathartic Release

Abstract

olklore, faith, spirituality, and magic have been looked to and culti-vated in many times and cultures, in order to facilitate healing and growth through the enactment of rituals, both personal and communal. And the act of making and interacting with symbols, art, and objects has often been used within these practices as a means to symbolically relate to the illness, disease