Happy Pride, y'all!
Putting pride into practice means we are committed to understanding, learning and creating change anywhere injustice exists. Our friends Health Promotion Practice are helping in this effort by sharing a collection of authors, papers, podcasts and more celebrating PRIDE 2022🏳️🌈. Check out, Resilience, Resistance, and Responsibility. You'll find some work from faculty and staff at the Center sprinkled in there too! 🌈✨ |
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Finding Me - (Un)Known Project
In celebration of Juneteenth, enjoy this poem by Center collaborator Hannah L. Drake of IDEASxLab as part of the (Un)Known Project. This project, created by IDEASxLab co-founders Hannah and Josh Miller, centers unknown enslaved people of Louisville, KY- using history and heritage to create arts-based experiences along the Ohio River. Listen to the poem and explore the project.
📷 IDEASxLabs |
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| WELCOME OUR NEWEST STAFF! |
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 | Marcel W. Foster, MPH: Adjunct Faculty Member
Marcel W. Foster, MPH (they/them). Marcel is joining us as an adjunct faculty member and will be teaching our graduate course HUM 6597 "Research and Evaluation in Arts in Medicine," which emphasizes the use of arts informed approaches in healthcare settings. Marcel is an Atlanta-based health and arts evaluator currently leading evaluation initiatives with Out of Hand Theater's Vaccine Confidence programs, Counter Narrative Projects' health impact tracking, and dance classes and outreach with the Parkinson's Foundation Georgia. 📷 Marcelitte Failla |
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 | Holland Hall: Admissions Assistant
Holland is an admissions assistant at The Center for Arts in Medicine. They earned their B.A. in History and M.Ed./ Ed.S. in Mental Health Counseling at the University of Florida. Prior to joining the Center’s staff, Holland served as a mental health facilitator for the Center’s Theatre Connect programming. Holland also collaborated with Center faculty in co-writing the play “Voices from the March,” a dramatization of their experience documenting the Women’s March on Washington in 2017—a fieldwork trip Holland led through their work with UF’s Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and Center for Gender, Sexualities and Women’s Studies Research. |
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 | Whitney Speck: Communications Assistant
Whitney is the Communications Assistant at the UF Center for Arts in Medicine and a UF College of the Arts Alumni. She is simultaneously pursuing her Master’s of Science in Information at the University of Michigan, specializing in User Experience Design and Research (UI/UX) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). A driving force in Whitney’s process is bridging both human-centered design and communications to produce work that prioritizes diversity, inclusion, and web-accessibility. Meet other members of The Center's staff! |
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Fall 2022 Graduate Programs
Interested in making a difference through the transformative power of the arts? The Center offers M.A. degrees or Graduate Certificates! Use your creativity to advance health, wellness, and equity as a trained arts in health professional. Promote health one creative moment at a time. Fall 2022 deadline is July 11, 2022!Learn more and apply! |
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CHC Digital Badge is Accepting Applications
Develop a project that addresses a public health issue affecting the well-being of a community though arts + culture in this 3-month professional development experience. In an online collaborative learning environment, participants will develop skills and receive instruction to turn their passion for social change into tangible outcomes. Apply now!
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2022 CHC Convening
Join the movement! Be part of the community advancing health equity through Arts and Public Health collaborations at our Creating Healthy Communities 2022 Convening. We are providing over 200 full registration scholarships and are offering early bird registration. Learn more about registration, scholarship, and sponsorship opportunities. See you in Orlando, October 10-11, 2022 💕 |
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| ARTS IN HEALTH OPPORTUNITIES |
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Can Storytelling Prevent Gun Violence?
Bellevue Literary Review and Northwell Health are inviting you to share your thoughts and experiences with gun violence through creative mediums. Use the power of storytelling to change the narrative on gun violence prevention! Submit up to two pieces of work, including poetry, prose, art, and video, by June 30th, 2022. Learn more. |
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 | CultureRx has found benefits & recommendations for social prescription in new study
Mass Cultural Council has released a study which explores the intersections of arts, culture, and health. CultureRx: Evaluation of a Social Prescription Pilot has documented increased feelings of self-worth and self-efficacy as a result of social prescriptions for arts and cultural experiences, with an overwhelming majority of participants wanting to repeat the art-sessions. This groundbreaking report was authored by Center Adjunct Lecturer, Tasha Golden with contributions from several other Center researchers. |
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 | AI-Driven Human Motion Classification and Analysis using Laban Movement System
Laban movement analysis is an effective way to study human movement and, through proper analysis, it can be used to detail communication and expression in dance. Understanding human movement is important for health research, but there are barriers that make this technology hard to access. Learn more about the research surrounding alternative methods for systematically analyzing and annotating human movement through AI for Laban Movement Analysis. |
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