Artistic inquiry has been identified by dance/movement therapy educator Lenore Hervey (Artistic Inquiry in Dance/Movement Therapy: Creative Alternatives for Research, 2000) as a research method that (1) uses art making to gather or analyze data, or to present findings, (2) engages in and acknowledges a creative process, and/or (3) is motivated and determined by the aesthetic values of the researcher(s).
It is a methodology particularly well suited to the creative arts therapies. Similar models of arts-based research have been described by expressive art therapist Shaun McNiff and arts educator Elliot Eisner.
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