Bringing together interdisciplinary leaders in methodology and arts-based research (ABR), this comprehensive handbook explores the synergies between artistic and research practices and addresses issues in designing, implementing, evaluating, and publishing ABR studies.

I. The Field 1. Introduction to Arts-Based Research, Patricia Leavy 2. Philosophical and Practical Foundations of Artistic Inquiry: Creating Paradigms, Methods, and Presentations Based in Art, Shaun McNiff 3. A/r/tography as Living Inquiry, Rita Irwin, Natalie LeBlanc, Jee Yeon Ryu, & George Belliveau 4. The Performative Movement in Social Science, Kenneth J. Gergen & Mary M. Gergen 5. Creative Arts Therapies and Arts-Based Research, Cathy A. Malchiodi 6. Creativity and Imagination: Research as World Making!, Celiane Camargo-Borges 7. Arts-Based Research Traditions and Orientations in Europe: Perspectives from Finland and Spain, Anniina Suominen, Mira Kallio-Tabin, & Fernando Hernández-Hernández II. Literary Genres 8. Narrative Inquiry, Mark Freeman 9. The Art of Autoethnography, Tony E. Adams & Stacy Holman Jones 10. Long Story Short: Encounters with Creative Nonfiction as Methodological Provocation, Anita Sinner, Erika Hasebe-Ludt, & Carl Leggo 11. Fiction-Based Research, Patricia Leavy 12. Poetic Inquiry: Poetry as/in/for Social Research, Sandra L. Faulkner III. Performance Genres 13. A/r/tographic Inquiry in a New Totality: The Rationality of Music and Poetry, Peter Gouzouasis 14. Living, Moving, and Dancing: Embodied Ways of Inquiry, Celeste Snowber 15. Ethnodrama and Ethnotheatre, Joe Salvatore 16. Reflections on the Techniques and Tones of Playbuilding by a Director/Actor/Researcher/Teacher, Joe Norris IV. Visual Arts 17. Arts-Based Visual Research, Gunilla Holm, Fritjof Sahlström, & Harriet Zilliacus 18. Drawing and Painting Research, Barbara J.Fish 19. Collage as Arts-Based Research, Victoria Scotti & Gioia Chilton 20. Installation Art: The Voyage Never Ends, Jennifer L. Lapum 21. How to Draw Comics the Scholarly Way: Creating Comics-Based Research in the Academy, Paul Kuttner, Nick Sousanis, & Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower V. Audiovisual Arts 22. Film as Research/Research as Film, Trevor Hearing & Kip Jones 23. Ethnocinema and Video-Based Research, Anne Harris VI. Mixed Method and Team Approaches 24. Sea Monsters Conquer the Beaches: Community Art as an Educational Resource—a Marine Debris Project, Karin Stoll, Wenche Sørmo, & Mette Gårdvik 25. Multimethod Arts-Based Research, Susan Finley VII. Arts-Based Research within Disciplines or Area Studies 26. Arts-Based Research in Education, James Haywood Rolling, Jr. 27. An Overview ofArts-Based Researchin Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology, Jessica Smartt Gullion & Lisa Schäfer 28. Deepening the Mystery of Arts-Based Research in the Health Sciences, Jennifer L. Lapum 29. Arts-Based Research in the Natural Sciences, Rebecca Kamen 30. Learning from Aesthetics: Unleashing Untapped Potential in Business, Keiko Krahnke & Donald Gudmundson VIII. Additional Considerations 31. Criteria for Evaluating Arts-Based Research, Patricia Leavy 32. Translation in Arts-Based Research, Nancy Gerber & Katherine Myers-Coffman 33. Arts-Based Writing: The Performance of Our Lives, Candace Jesse Stout & Vittoria S. Daiello 34. Art, Agency, and Ethics in Research: How the New Materialisms Will Require and Transform Arts-Based Research, Jerry Rosiek 35. Aesthetic-Based Research as Pedagogy: The Interplay of Knowing and Unknowing toward Expanded Seeing, Liora Bresler 36. The Pragmatics of Publishing the Experimental Text, Norman K. Denzin 37. Going Public: The Reach and Impact of Ethnographic Research, Phillip Vannini & Sarah Abbott Conclusion: On Realizing the Promise of Arts-Based Research, Patricia Leavy

"Renowned author and editor Leavy has assembled prominent artist-researchers--from educators to therapists and beyond--for this outstanding, innovative handbook. The volume surveys the philosophy and practice of progressive inquiry using literary, performative, and exhibited modalities. Contributors present rich guidance and compelling arguments for the role of ABR alongside more traditional research methods in the exploration of complex social worlds. Like exceptional art, this handbook has magnitude, quality, and significance for researchers and students across multiple disciplines, including the social sciences, education, health care, business, humanities, media, and fine arts."--Johnny Saldaña, MFA, School of Film, Dance, and Theatre (Emeritus), Arizona State University "With this handbook, Leavy not only helps to define the field of ABR, but also encourages readers to imagine new ways of conducting and appreciating research. Beautifully rendered chapters describe the emergent, diverse world of artistic inquiry, and balance the conceptual with the practical. The volume guides researchers and students to bring both creativity and vigor to producing works of scholarly art."--Ronald J. Chenail, PhD, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nova Southeastern University "Written in an accessible and inspiring style, this handbook is ideal for graduate students who are searching for new ways to participate in creative knowledge construction, representation, and dissemination, with the potential to reach an audience beyond academia. As a supplementary textbook in my qualitative research methods course, the book inspires students to move beyond traditional qualitative paradigms. I have used it as the basis for individualized research projects over the course of a full semester. As I prepare to teach a graduate-level course on arts-based methodology next year, I plan to use this handbook as the primary text, with certainty that it will ignite student innovation in research."--Moshoula Capous-Desyllas, PhD, MSW, Department of Sociology, California State University, Northridge "Leavy, a champion of ABR, has gathered leading scholars from around the world in this welcome contribution to our rapidly growing field. She uses ABR as an inclusive term that encompasses the myriad current approaches to creative scholarship. The Handbook offers chapters on various methods and genres, as well as chapters on practical issues that will help both emergent and established researchers explore and expand their craft. Traversing scholarly disciplines and art forms, this volume ushers ABR into its own as a new paradigm for research. It is a gift for anyone with a passion for bringing artistry to research."--Diane Conrad, PhD, Department of Secondary Education (Drama/Theatre Education), University of Alberta, Canada "Famed educator Albert Cullum once said of those who saw the arts as a waste of time that they were 'all formula and no soul.' If only Cullum had had at his disposal this superb, reader-friendly handbook for researchers, students, and others interested in how art in its various forms intersects with knowledge in disciplines such as education, psychology, and neuroscience. This is a work that will be read, reread, and referenced often, and that will help academics of all types understand and explain clearly to others how art can work to combine both 'formula' (that is, research analysis) and 'soul.'"--David A. Almeida, EdD, Department of Special Education, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts -The Handbook brings together the wisdom of more than 30 contemporary scholars working in the ABR field; using a similar framework to Method Meets Art, the Handbook takes Leavy's emphasis on diversified fusion a step further. The Handbook presents a collection of innovative essays that show the results that can be achieved through ABR with its variety of different perspectives….The sharing of experience makes the Handbook a useful collection of practical 'how-to' articles, which help to plant seeds of inspiration in the minds of other researchers who are considering making use of ABR.--International Journal of Arts Education, 12/01/2017