praxis

Recent work | Projects

Chicago community art projects | Archive

BIPOC Student Fund for creative arts therapies | Applications Closed. Archive

Care Sessions at Homan Square | Justice for Pierre Loury Toolkit | JFF Toolkit

exhibitions

Round 53: The Curious Case of Critical Race…Theory? Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas. She Asked Her Mother… Installation. [Forget Me Not flower and Texas Blue Bonnet garden], 2022

Participatory Arts Exhibition. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago, Illinois, 2018

Claiming Space: Creative Grounds and Freedom Summer School. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago, Illinois, 2017-2018

publications

Norris, M., Williams, B. Leah Gipson (Ed.). (2021). Black aesthetics and the arts therapies. Special Multidisciplinary Issue. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 21(1). https://voices.no/index.php/voices/issue/view/422

Gipson, L. (Forthcoming). Georgette Seabrooke Powell and the legacy of Harlem in art therapy. In T. Sheehan & S. Hudson (Eds.), Modernism, art, therapy. Yale University Press.

Gipson, L. (2019). Envisioning black women’s consciousness in art therapy. In S.K. Talwar (Ed.), Art therapy for social justice: Radical intersections. Routledge.

Reinhardt, R., & Gipson, L. (2023). Against diagnosing the spirit: A Note on the Clinic of Spirit Possession. Penumbr(a) A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Modernity. https://www.penumbrajournal.org/no-2-beauty

Gipson, L., Norris, M., Amaral, L., Tesfaye, J., & Hiscox, A. (2021). What are you all going to do to keep Black women in art therapy?. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3200

Gipson, L., Williams, B., & Norris, M. (2020). Three Black women’s reflections on COVID-19 and the creative arts therapies. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 20(2). https://doi.org/ 10.15845/voices.v20i2.3115

Gipson, L. (2020). Letter to the editor. Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 37(1), 51-51, https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2019.1705075

Gipson, L. (2017). Challenging neoliberalism and multicultural love in art therapy. Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 34(3), 112-117.

Gipson, L. (2015). Is cultural competence enough? Deepening social justice pedagogy in art therapy. Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 32(3), 142-145.

Gipson, L. (2010). Shoes as therapy: An art-based approach to trauma recovery with adult women survivors of sexual abuse and sexual assault. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

public scholarship

Allen, A., Tillet, S., Tillet, S. B., Gipson, L. & Owusu, M. (2021). Black girls during the pandemic and protest. A Long Walk Home, Inc. https://www.alongwalkhome.org/covid-19-report

Gipson, L. R., Tillet, S.B., Tillet, S. (January 2011). A Culture of Safety: The Development of a youth-based sexual violence prevention program. Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls and Young Women: Occasional Papers Series

Why We Need to Reject Second Lady Karen Pence as an Art Therapy Advocate https://arttherapy4socialjustice.wordpress.com