BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6b37db8f829dfade41009ae541adca9c332 CATEGORIES:Committee Event SUMMARY:Virtual Mirrors Artist Spotlight Talk DESCRIPTION:
L ACPA'S Arts, Creativity, and Culture Committee is proud to sponsor a series of Artist Spotlights where we invite artists from our community of artists from Mirrors of The Mind 9 to give hour-l ong talks about their artistic process and their unique position as artists practicing in the field of mental health. Co-chaired by Dr. Pamela McCrory and Dr. Terry Marks-Tarlow.
On October 10th, fro m 5-6 PM Pacific Time
Dr. Nisha Gupta will present
DESI EROS
< em>Reclaiming South Asian Erotic Power through Surrealist Folk Art
DESI EROS is an arts-based phenomenolo gical research study about South Asian (Desi) women’s experiences of reclai ming erotic power, in the contexts of our sociopolitical contexts and ances tral histories. I collected six Desi women’s descriptions of reclaiming ero tic power, interpreted their descriptions for thematic meanings, and then e xpressed these meanings as surrealist folk art in the style of Frida Kahlo, with cultural symbols imbedded in each painting. In addition to showcasing the artwork produced by this process, this presentation will recount my So uth Asian American psyche's experience of decolonization and critical consc iousness while creating the artwork, as the symbolic images in each paintin g emerged by a transpersonal process of being intuitively led by Divine Ima gination, which awakened deeper understandings of indigenous, pre-colonial South Asian cultures that I did not know before. The final artistic and sch olarly research findings can be viewed at www.desieros.com, which aim to liberate the meanings of reclaiming erotic power for Desi women–both personally, as described by each writer’s subjective experience, and collectively, as expressed by our indigenous cultural symbols as Desi people. The findings suggest that in th e process of reclaiming erotic power, Desi women also reclaim voice, autono my, faith, desire, wisdom and love across our intersectional (queer and rel igious) identities.
Dr. Nisha G upta is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of West Georgia. Alongside her training as a psychotherapist, she integrates p henomenological research, liberation psychology, and the arts to create the rapeutic interventions for personal and sociocultural healing. Her projects as a researcher, artist, and educator seek to disrupt cultures of silence, evoke empathy and compassion, initiate dialogue, and build solidarity acro ss difference. She is the founder of the Phenomenological Art Collective, a n arts-based research lab at UWG that uses phenomenological research to pro duce evocative artwork that illuminates lived experience for the purposes o f psychoeducation, sociocultural healing, and social advocacy. At UWG, Gupt a teaches liberation psychology, creativity, and arts-based phenomenologica l research to students. She is based in Atlanta, GA.
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