expressive arts
Artistic communication fields
Expressive arts are creative disciplines used to communicate emotion, meaning, or experience—typically visual art, music, dance, drama, and creative writing.
The term appears most often in educational and therapeutic contexts: The school's expressive arts program includes painting and theater.
In therapy, expressive arts help patients process trauma or explore feelings through creative activity rather than talk alone.
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
- danceRhythmic bodily movement
- free movementUnrestricted ability to travel
- musicOrganized auditory art
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
found objects · art therapy · circus arts · poetry · storytelling · music therapy · inner child · soundscapes · live performance · puppetry · visual storytelling · drama therapy · improvisation · open studio · ecstatic dance · movement · choreography · performance art
expressive artssciences
Organized bodies of knowledge
mathematics · hard sciences · engineering · natural sciences · computer science
expressive artsmanual labor
Work done bodily
routine tasks · clerical work · data entry · industrial production · skilled trades
expressive artsanalytical reasoning
Structured evaluation of information
logical analysis · deductive reasoning · empirical method · linear thinking