ABSTRACT
This chapter describes and assesses the impact of a collaborative art workshop that brought together migrants in Malta with artists and academics from the University of Malta. Working with a local NGO, the research team developed a series of sessions that combined arts-based methods (like photography, screen printing, filmmaking and stencilling) with other qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection in order to study the potential of creative community-building processes in migrants' engagement with various social challenges like stigmatisation. The participants in the workshop produced a new body of creative work in a variety of visual media, responding to several themes that emerged during the collaborative and individual tasks they conducted. Findings show evidence of an improvement in well-being and a development of technical, creative, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. These findings show that projects that advocate for social justice through the arts can have considerable policy implications.
