Mindful of the toll that the pandemic has also taken on the arts and cultural sector, this issue will look at some of the ways that the arts continue to address and contribute to public health, healing, well-being, and community resilience. 

The Creative Health Quality Framework outlines a set of principles that underpin good practice. It looks at how these principles might be adopted by everyone involved in Creative Health and explores how they might be applied to practice to support the best possible experience and health outcomes for participants.

The toolkit provides resources in four tailored sections, recognizing the critical role that arts employers, curators, presenters, educators, and grantmakers play in fostering disability equity and inclusion in the arts and more.

This report summarizes discussions and developing action plans to advance the field of arts in health in the three areas: Arts and Healthcare Provider Burnout, Arts in Health Research Initiatives/Priorities, and Arts and Public Health.

An action plan of bold, culture-changing steps that partners science, the arts, and technology to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities around the globe. Johns Hopkins University and the Aspen Institute are spearheading this initiative.

NOAH hopes to positively support and shape an elevated relationship between the spheres of arts and health and amongst affiliated fields through the adaptation and use of these professional resources.

In October of 2016, the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine, with support from the Pabst Charitable Foundation for the Arts and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, convened a roundtable focused on addressing language used to describe the discipline within the purview of education, rather than the feld, which would be the purview of a professional feld association.

This report shares the results of evluation of 12 to 18 week art classes attended by 64 men hel in the Santa Cruz Main Jail, San Francisco County Jail – San Bruno Complex, MCJ Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, Fresno County Jail and Sacramento County Jail – Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center​.

A collaboration between AFTA’s National Initiative on Arts & Health and the Military and the Local Arts Advancement departments, Arts Deployed is a guide for arts organizations and artists interested in bringing creative arts programming to military and Veteran communities, their caregivers, and families. 

In November 2012, the the Arts & Health in the Military National Roundtable, took place and resulted in a policy paper: Arts, Health, and Well-Being across the Military Continuum.  This white paper includes a series of recommendations in the areas of arts & health research, practice, and policy, across the military continuum, which includes pre-deployment, deployment, reintegration into community and family, veteran, and late-life care.  

This review explores the relationship between engagement with the creative arts and health outcomes, specifically the health effects of music engagement, visual arts therapy, movement-based creative expression, and expressive writing. Although there is evidence that art-based interventions are effective in reducing adverse physiological and psychological outcomes, the extent to which these interventions enhance health status is largely unknown.

This paper presents a case for how collaboration among the public health, arts and culture, and community development sectorsis critical to addressing the issues and conditions that limit health in America.

This report contains a wealth of data–on staff and faculty compensation, instructional fees, income and expense ratios, and more–that can inform community arts education leaders with planning and budgeting and help funders and policy makers better understand the needs and impacts of our field.

The purpose of this literature review on arts in medicine is to examine reports and studies that illuminate the role artists and arts organizations can and do play in healthcare, especially in clinical settings. This report reviews studies supporting the use of the arts in medicine across the lifespan; methods of delivering the arts to support healthcare environments; group and individual art making; and professional development and training for caregivers. Finally, the report also gathers author recommendations for funders to consider when investing in arts in medicine, along with ways to measure impact to build sustainability.

Creativity Matters is based on the report of the first national conference on creative aging, cosponsored in 2006 by NJPAC and NCCA. Three dozen interviews with leading practitioners and an extensive literature review expanded the toolkit’s content.

This report describes the range of activities at the intersection of public safety and arts and culture, outlines a theory of change, and provides recommendations for further consideration. Through interviews with experts in the field, this research found that art in the public safety sector promotes empathy and understanding, influences law and policy, provides career opportunities, supports well-being, and advances the quality of place.

Can public art promote public health? This is the central question addressed in this four-year evaluation of the Porch Light Program, a collaborative endeavor of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disability Services (dbhids). Porch Light creates public murals that seek to transform neighborhoods and promote the health of neigh-borhood residents and individuals who help create the mural.

The toolkit was developed through the Arts in Healthcare for Rural Communities program, undertaken by the UF Center for Arts in Medicine and Shands Arts in Medicine, with support from the State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and the Kresge Foundation. Between 2008 and 2012, the Arts in Healthcare for Rural Communities program facilitated the development of unique arts in healthcare program models in nine rural Florida communities.

The following State of the Field Report offers information about progress in the field since the symposium, which resulted in recommendations and a strategic direction to advance the arts in healthcare.

The NOAH Code of Ethics is the basis upon which two
additional prescriptive documents [will be] built: Scope
of Practice and Standards of Care. These documents will
move Artists and Arts Administrators working in healthcare
and community settings toward the ultimate goal of
professionalization.

This guide offers a roadmap for communities to develop programs that formally integrate arts, culture, and nature resources into local health and social care systems.

A list of events and resources on how museums are integrating creative aging programs, updated on a rolling basis.

This report examines the relationships between participation in different arts and cultural activities and aspects of health and well-being, including: overall health, mental health, satisfaction with life, satisfaction with feeling part of the community (i.e., sense of belonging).

Patient-centered, high-quality health care relies on the well-being, health, and safety of health care clinicians. However, alarmingly high rates of clinician burnout in the United States are detrimental to the quality of care being provided, harmful to individuals in the workforce, and costly…

The Prison Arts Resource Project (PARP) is an annotated bibliography of evidence-based studies that evaluate the impact of arts programs in U.S. correctional settings. [p. 4]

NOAH is proud to present the online edition of the white paper, “Arts, Health, and Well-Being in America”, which was unveiled in a print version at the inaugural Arts in Health conference for the organization in September 2017.

Responding to a need identified by the federal Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development, the NEA commissioned this guide from the cognitive neuroscientist Julene Johnson, PhD, UCSF, and the arts consultant Jeff Chapline, New Art Horizons. It advises arts practitioners and biomedical or behavioral health researchers how to partner effectively in documenting and studying the contributions of community-based arts programs to positive health outcomes.

How Museums Are Addressing Health Issues: The American Alliance of Museums has assembled this report to showcase some of the important ways that museums are contributing to health care—helping patients, training medical professionals and educating the public about health and wellness issues.

The Royal Society for Public Health has provided sustained support over the years to the arts and health, and this report, produced as a result of the Working Group’s discussions, builds on this support. It also provides a resource to enable the Royal Society to consider its future policy options for how the arts and humanities can contribute to health, health gain and wellbeing in the UK and beyond. 

The NCCAH has joined forces with the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus) to publish a unique edition of LAKE: A Journal of Arts and Environment. This dazzling new issue highlights the connection between Indigenous peoples, health and place.

This Handbook serves as a guide through the Society for the Arts in Healthcare’s full-day workshop, Basic Tool Kit: Arts in Healthcare Program Essentials and was compiled through submissions from the workshop’s leaders.