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Current Research on Art & Healing

• The Connection Between Art, Healing, and Public Health: A Review of Current Literature Heather L. Stuckey, DEd, and Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH
  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.
  
  
• The Arts and the Heart Campaign / Art For Healing Network The Proceedings of a Roundtable to Explore Opportunities New York City, June 2009
  The Arts and the Heart Roundtable, convened in June 2009, brought together twelve thought-leading experts whose professional backgrounds represent the arts, medicine, public health, and community outreach. Roundtable participants responded to this unique invitation, eager to contribute their experience and insight. Their enthusiasm also revealed a shared commitment to better understand the benefits of creative engagement in managing heart disease and to make those benefits systematically, effectively, and commonly available to individuals and communities worldwide. Objective One: Evaluating the Evidence That Creative Engagement Has Potential Healing Capability. Objective Two: Exploring Gaps in Our Knowledge. Objective Three: Identifying Opportunities, Obstacles, and Breakthrough Strategies

Other Organizations Working in Art & Healing

• Arts and Healing Network is an on-line resource celebrating the connection between art and healing. Our web site serves as an international resource for anyone interested in the healing potential of art, especially environmentalists, social activists, artists, art professionals, health care practitioners, and those challenged by illness.
  
  
• Rx Art, a not-for-profit organization, promotes healing through exposure to original fine art in patient, procedure, and examination rooms of healthcare facilities. We believe healing is optimally accomplished by the integration of spiritual well-being and the finest medical care.
  
  
• The Art Connection is a Boston-based nonprofit organization that seeks to enrich under-served communities by expanding public access to original works of art. Our art donation and placement program places the work of donor artists on the walls of community service organizations. In their new environments, art stimulates dialogue, creativity, learning and healing.

AfH Sponsors

• Cummings Moving Company has volunteered its assistance and expertise to Art for Healing on many occasions. The efficiency and care they take in transporting our donations makes Cummings our ideal choice for a moving company.