PBS NewsHour Feature
PBS NewsHour featured the UF Center for Arts in Medicine & UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine Program for their Arts and Culture Series CANVAS 🎉 Watch the full video. Use the arts to transform health & wellbeing - become an arts in health professional! Learn more about our academic offerings. |
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| WELCOME OUR NEWEST FACULTY MEMBER! |
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 | Maggie Clifford: Undergraduate Visiting Lecturer
Welcome our new faculty member Maggie Clifford 🎊 Maggie will be joining us as our undergraduate visiting lecturer beginning August, teaching Music In Medicine.
Maggie Clifford brings an interdisciplinary background in music composition & performance, academic teaching & research, and community engagement. She has recorded music for film (e.g. ELENA, 2013; Grammy-nominated The King, 2017), facilitated participatory music events in in-patient settings across the US, and recently signed with record label Spirit House Records on her most recent single (2022). Maggie completed her master’s degree at UF in Environmental Education and Communication in 2016 and is currently working on her Ph. D. in Communication at American University in Washington, DC, where she has focused on digital cultures, climate change, and “climate art." She is looking forward to opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration, teaching, and learning at the Center.
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Info Session Replay
Did you miss our recent info session? Well, good thing we recorded the livestream 🥳 We met with Jill Sonke to hear about the state of the Arts in Health field and the Center's academic offerings and how they may be integrated into your existing or future work. Early deadline for Spring 2023 is Sept 19th. Final deadline is Nov. 7th! Learn more about our programs! 📸 | Whitney Speck |
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2022 CHC Convening
Join the movement! Learn and dialogue at our Creating Healthy Communities 2022 Convening as we work to advance health equity through Arts in Public Health collaborations. Learn more about registration, scholarship, and sponsorship opportunities. See you in Orlando, October 10-11, 2022 💕 📸 | Whitney Speck |
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| ARTS IN HEALTH OPPORTUNITIES |
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📣 JOB OPP 📣 Art and Healing Director of Programs position
Calling all Center alumni and arts in health practitioners! The Foundation for Art & Healing (FAH) seeks a (remote) Director of Programs to shepherd their existing portfolio and lead the development of new programs. They are looking for folks with management experience, strong collaborative skills, and a ❤️ for arts in health. Apply here! 📷 | FAH |
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📣 JOB OPP 📣 Evaluation Consultant for TimeSlips
Calling all Center alumni, students and arts in health researchers! TimeSlips Creative Storytelling, a non-profit specializing in care-giving for older adults, is looking to develop an evaluation tool and plan to track progress on meaning, purpose, connectedness and joy - the heartbeat of their work ❤️. They are seeking proposals from evaluation consultants. Apply here by August 11th! 📷 | TimeSlips |
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The Layered Onion
The Layered Onion, a social impact group created to eliminate mental health stigma by sharing and promoting works by artists with lived experience, has announced the first issue of their mental health, art, and literature journal, The Shallot. Check it out and join the collective to connect with other creators who live with mental and emotional health challenges 💞 📷 | The Layered Onion |
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Public Art IS Public Health: Artists in Residency
For their 2023 season, Franconia is asking how we can discuss well-being through the lens of public art. Franconia is providing a communal residency experience where up to 18 selected artists live on-site to generate artwork that investigates and explores intersectional impacts between public art and public health. The deadline to apply for the Artist Residency is August 1st. 📷 | Franconia Sculpture Park |
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Enhance Life with Music: A Podcast
Ferol Carytsas, acting program director and lecturer at The Center, and founding board member of the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) met with Mindy Peterson for the podcast Enhance Life with Music 🎶 to discuss the idea of how the arts can humanize the health care experience. Listen here. 📸 | W W via Pexels |
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| ARTS IN HEALTH RESEARCH AND NEWS |
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New study finds gardening and art-making improve mental health
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Art and the Fight Against Tuberculosis
"There is a “war inside of you,” physically and metaphorically making it difficult to accept one’s own body and identity" - Paulina Siniatkina, Art and the Fight Against Tuberculosis, JAMA. Read the article by former Center faculty, Amy Bucciarelli, and colleague, Eric Egelund, that explores visual artist Paulina Siniatkina's personal experience and art to fight the stigma of TB.
📸 | Paulina Siniatkina, Diagnoses (2019) |
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Participatory and receptive arts engagement in older adults
A new research study published from the EpiArts Lab follows arts engagement in association with cognitive psychology in older adults over seven years. The positive health effects found from engaging in 🎨 arts activities 🎭 are similar to exercising a hour a week 🏋️ Read the full article!
📸 | Serene Cheon |
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Dancing away the loneliness with social prescribing
This article about social prescribing by The World highlights how social prescribing is being used to combat isolation and loneliness during the pandemic. Rather than relying solely on medication, social prescriptions improve health and well-being by referring patients to community-based arts programs - creative workshops, social dancing, painting classes, and more. Read or listen to the full article!
📷 | Peter Robertshaw/The World |
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