Publisher's Report January 6, 2013
Cheryl L. McLean
Happy
New Year 2013 to all of our blog visitors at "Arts Crossing Borders". This post will report on the activities of IJCAIP Journal in 2012 and moving forward in 2013.
A third book in the CAIP Series, “Creative Arts in Humane Medicine” (Publisher Brush Education) is well underway with international contributions featuring the creative arts in action in humane medicine in medical education and in healthcare.
I have recently
been invited by The American Medical Students’ Association to facilitate one of the
upcoming webinars for this year’s AMSA, Medical Humanities Scholars' program “Perceptions of Physicians in Literature and
the Arts”. In March I will
lead a session around the growing diversity and vitality of the creative
arts in medicine, education research and practice. The
American Medical Student Association is based in Washington and is the largest
independent association of physicians in training in the United States. Uniquely student governed, AMSA has a
membership of 68,000 from across The United States. I look forward to this opportunity to connect with students and participate in this program.
We
recently started our own IJCAIP Youtube channel and video blog on Youtube which is
built around presentations and discussions about the arts in action across disciplines for hope and change. Topics such as publishing/research/
education/books and projects in action
are discussed. In the "likes" section of the new channel you'll find many videos that may be of interest to you around the creative arts in action and practice. It is expected as the channel developes there will also be video interviews and online input from academics and international
leaders in the field. The channel was started Jan. 5 and has
already welcomed many viewers and we expect it will be an excellent addition to
our current international communications activities.
We want to thank our board for their continued support, and, as well extend our congratulations to our board members, Robert Kelly, IJCAIP Advisory Board, University of Calgary, for the recent release of his new book, “Educating for Creativity a Global Conversation” with Brush Education and to Nick Nissley, Cincinnati State, for contributing to the design and launch of "Conversation Cafe" at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Centre where art is used to explore new ways of thinking and to offer an opportunity to participate in conversations around important issues.
It has been a busy year and we look ahead to bringing you more news, articles, video, books and more information and research about our growing field.
We thank our many blog visitors, subscribers and supporters for being a part of our international community around the creative arts in interdisciplinary research and practice.
The journey continues,
Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP Journal
http://www.ijcaip.com
Meet Cheryl McLean at our new Youtube Channel
