Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction to arts-based research / Patricia Leavy -- Philosophical and practical foundations of artistic inquiry creating paradigms, methods, and presentations based in art / Shaun McNiff -- A/r/tography as living inquiry / Rita L. Irwin, Natalie LeBlanc, Jee Yeon Ryu, and George Belliveau -- The performative movement in social science / Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary Gergen -- Creative arts therapies and arts-based research / Cathy A. Malchiodi -- Creativity and imagination: research as world-making / Celiane Camargo-Borges -- Arts-based research traditions and orientations in Europe perspectives from Finland and Spain / Anniina Suominen, Mira Kallio-Tavin, and Fernando Hernández-Hernández -- Narrative inquiry / Mark Freeman -- The art of autoethnography / Tony E. Adams and Stacy Holman Jones -- Long story short: encounters with creative nonfiction as methodological provocation / Anita Sinner, Erika Hasebe-Ludt, and Carl Leggo -- Fiction-based research / Patricia Leavy -- Poetic inquiry: poetry as/in/for social research / Sandra L. Faulkner -- A/r/tographic inquiry in a new tonality: the relationality of music and poetry / Peter Gouzouasis -- Living, moving, and dancing: embodied ways of inquiry / Celeste Snowber -- Ethnodrama and ethnotheatre / Joe Salvatore -- Reflections on the techniques and tones of playbuilding by a director/actor/researcher/teacher / Joe Norris -- Arts-based visual research / Gunilla Holm, Fritjof Sahlström, and Harriet Zilliacus -- Drawing and painting research / Barbara J. Fish -- Collage as arts-based research / Victoria Scotti and Gioia Chilton -- Installation art: the voyage never ends / Jennifer L. Lapum -- How to draw comics the scholarly way: creating comics-based research in the academy / Paul J. Kuttner, Nick Sousanis, and Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower -- Film as research/research as film / Trevor Hearing and Kip Jones -- Ethnocinema and video-based research / Anne Harris -- Sea monsters conquer the beaches: community, art as an educational resource: a marine debris project / Karin Stoll, Wenche Sørmo, and Mette Gårdvik -- Multimethod arts-based research / Susan Finley -- Arts-based research in education / James Haywood Rolling, Jr. -- An overview of arts-based research in sociology, anthropology, and psychology / Jessica Smartt Gullion and Lisa Schäfer -- Deepening the mystery of arts-based research in the health sciences / Jennifer L. Lapum -- Arts-based research in the natural sciences / Rebecca Kamen -- Learning from aesthetics: unleashing untapped potential in business / Keiko Krahnke and Donald Gudmundson -- Criteria for evaluating arts-based research / Patricia Leavy -- Translation in arts-based research / Nancy Gerber and Katherine Myers-Coffman -- Arts-based writing: the performance of our lives / Candace Jesse Stout and Vittoria S. Daiello -- Art, agency, and ethics in research: how the new materialisms will require and transform arts-based research / Jerry Rosiek -- Aesthetic-based research as pedagogy: the interplay of knowing and unknowing toward expanded-seeing / Liora Bresler -- The pragmatics of publishing the experimental text / Norman K. Denzin -- Going public: the reach and impact of ethnographic research / Phillip Vannini and Sarah Abbott -- On realizing the promise of arts-based research / Patricia Leavy