Aly Maier & Arts in Health Inc.

But they aren’t alone, PBS, the BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, Psychology Today, and dozens and dozens of local news outlets have covered arts in health stories this summer. This roundup contains 90 articles highlighting the how people are using arts, culture and creative expression for personal and public health:

Featured Articles — 6
Special Issue of Extensions Magazine — 3
General Arts in Health — 55
Arts Prescribing — 13
Universities — 13

As ever, I encourage you find a story or two that you relate to and share it with your networks — because all of these are arts in health IRL. (#thisisartsinhealth, #artsinhealth)

I’ve stepped back from social media these days, but I peek in from time to time. So if you post, use the hashtag #artsinhealth, tag me @artsinhealthinc on Instagram, or @Aly Maier Lokuta on LinkedIn, and I’ll try to reshare.

Keep doing the good work, and I hope you find a moment to dig into your favorite arts activity today.

xoxo,

Aly

Note: Some news sites have paywalls

FEATURED ARTICLES

Summer Challenge: Make Land Art to Boost Mental Health
The New York Times

The science behind using the arts to combat loneliness and social isolation
PBS NewsHour

CitiesSpeak Podcast Features Amanda Lovelee on How Artists Can Help Build Healthier, More Connected Communites
National League of Cities

Hobbies can improve your health – here are four tips for choosing one
The Guardian

Interest in art’s benefit to health grows as Wales and Greece take major steps
The Art Newspaper

Art as Care: Hospital Murals in Pediatric Healthcare
Museum of the City of New York

EXTENSIONS MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE

Guest Edited by Denise Montgomery, CultureThrive

Arts-Based Strategies for Youth Mental Health: The Role of Creative Youth Development
Tasha Golden, University of Florida Center for Arts and Medicine

Social Drivers of Health & Creative Youth Development
Denise Montgomery, CultureThrive and Global Centre for Creative Youth Development

Forest of Imagination: How Children and Young People Are Cultivating Their Creativity Through Hands-on Arts and Nature-Based Learning
Penny Hay, Founding Director, House of Imagination

How Future Healers Stay Human
UTHSC News - University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Regional arts-health project yields economic rewards
Flinders News - Flinders University

UA program blends arts and health to fight inequality
Tucson Spotlight - University of Arizona

Medical Students, Alum Showcase Creativity in Spokane County Medical Society Humanities Contest
Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine - Washington State University

This UA program treats anxiety with art and theater
Tucson Spotlight - University of Arizona

‘Creative process builds community’: New UCLA fellowship to use arts to combat burnout
Daily Bruin - UCLA

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Social Music as a Prescription for Maintaining Wellness
Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy

Arts in mental health in the United States: reclaiming a policy window
Arts & Health

Mechanisms underpinning the mental health impact of arts engagement
Nature Reviews Psychology

Does leisure activity matter for epigenetic ageing? Analyses of arts engagement and physical activity in the UK Household Longitudinal Study
Innovation in Aging

The interplay of dance and creativity as a pathway to health and well-being: a narrative review
Arts & Health

Changes in Mental Health During Participation in Art Pharmacy: A Longitudinal Study of a US Arts-Based Social Prescribing Program
Frontiers in Public Health

ArtsRx as an Arts Prescribing Model: Leveraging CRM Data to Understand Participation and Engagement
Frontiers in Public Health

Learning Through Process: Elevating Process Evaluations for Arts in Health Initiatives at Arts Organizations
American Journal of Arts Management

Arts on prescription for well-being in adults: systematic review
Frontiers in Public Health

The health economics of social prescribing: a systematic review
Journal of Epidemiology & Public Health

The impact of social prescribing on well-being outcomes in a nationwide analysis
Nature Health

GENERAL

A Trauma-Informed Music Composition Program Fostering Resilience in Survivors of Hospitalization
Journal of Humanistic Psychology

The mental health and wellbeing outcomes and mechanisms of change in arts inclusive programs for children aged 6-12: A systematic review
Frontiers in Health Services

Creative Health in Practice: Hub-and-Spoke Consortium Working Across West Yorkshire
Perspectives in Public Health

Meaning, Creative Engagement and Integral Well-Being in Preventive Psychiatry: A Narrative Review and Translational Framework for Community Mental Health
Journal of Psychiatry Research & Reports

Leveraging Performative Arts Programmes for Enhancing Skills and Well-Being in Global Majority Youth: A Public Health Approach to Sustainable Development in …
Sustainability in Education: Strategies, Practices and Perspectives

Beyond the expert: Creative health, music, and artificial intelligence
The Role of Music in Health and Wellbeing Journeys

Designing for impact: a game-based approach to teaching health inequality in community care
British Journal of General Practice

Listening, Witnessing, and Creative Repair: Towards Justice-Oriented Approaches to Valuing Lived Experience Expertise and Trauma-Informed Co-creative Practice
Artful Evaluation for Creative Health and Wellbeing

Perception meets practice: organisational views on creative arts therapy and arts in health in healthcare
Arts & Health

Choral experiences in college students: Music supporting mental health
Journal of Applied Arts & Health

Reimagining Health Care and Social Connection with Asylum Seekers and Refugees through Contextually Grounded Nature-Based Social Interventions
Wellbeing, Space and Society

Fleshy Socialities: Evaluative Practices in Theatre, Performance, Health
Artful Evaluation for Creative Health and Wellbeing

A Pilot Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Dance-Based Wellbeing Programme in a Women’s Prison
Women’s Health

Show and Tell: Integrating the Arts into Transdisciplinary Public Health and Community Organizing Education
The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

Narrative and arts-based interventions in oncology supportive care: a narrative review of evidence and implications for bridging the distress screening–response gap
European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences

Creative Arts Interventions as Adjunctive Strategies in Clinical and Occupational Medicine: Evidence, Mechanisms, Implementation, and Research Priorities
American Journal of Medical and Clinical Research & Reviews

Utilising creative practice and the arts to develop public health policy: the voices of children and young people in Newcastle
Perspectives in Public Health

Exploring cyborg-body embodiments of care: An analysis of the puppet film Servant-Talk
Journal of Applied Arts & Health

Intergenerational access to creative and digital activities in the community for health and well-being: a college-based project in South Wales
20th International Technology, Education and Development Conference

Libraries, reading, and youth well-being in the digital age
Journal of EAHIL

Embedding Music in Care at Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes

Cultivating Inner Peace through Expressive Arts and Nature Immersion: A Positive Psychology Approach
Journal of Advance and Future Research

Arts-in-Medicine, with dance as a key modality
Sri Lanka Journal of Advanced Research Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences

A Scoping Review of Creative Art-Based Interventions, Campaigns, and Strategies to Address Gender-Based Violence
Art Therapy

“I Felt Worth something”: Sustainable Funding for Social Art as an Emerging Best Practice for Public Health
Health Promotion Practice

Grey literature rapid review of how art supports mental health and wellbeing among young people in Nordic countries
Arts & Health

“Empowerment—Fulfilled, Free, and Strong”: Conceptualizing Youth Empowerment in Madagascar Using an Arts-Based Methodology
Health Promotion Practice

Singing through the storm: utilizing virtual singing telegrams to foster staff wellness in a pediatric cancer hospital
Arts & Health

A place for care and connection: The potential for art therapy in museum and cultural spaces
The Arts in Psychotherapy

Innovating Contemporary Thai Musical Drama for Enhancing Quality of Life in the Ageing Society
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Serenading the mind: positive and critical lived experiences of individuals with dementia with participatory community choirs
Arts & Health

Doctors as Artists—Practicing the Arts Eases Burnout and Enhances Patient Interactions
Integrative and Complementary Therapies

Arts in oncology: integrating creative practices into hospital environments–The example of the Centre for Art and Medicine, University Hospital for Tumours (KBCSM)
Journal of Oncology

In Your Hands (Ezandleni Zakho): A Theatre-based Approach to Engaging Embodied Indigenous Knowledge Towards Collaborative Social Action
Geopsychiatry

Integrating health humanities in medical education: a narrative scoping review of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences and global perspectives
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine

What we Read, What we Learn. Notes on a Bibliography as a Window into the Medical Humanities
mediAzioni

ARTS/SOCIAL PRESCRIBING

Art on repeat prescription
The Lancet

Social Prescribing and community activities for people living with chronic pain: A Realist Synthesis
ideas

Arts on prescription for well-being in adults: systematic review
Frontiers in Public Health

Using WELLBYs to demonstrate the social value of social prescribing at a national level: evidence from Green Social Prescribing in England
People, Place and Policy

Protocol for the health economic evaluation of nature-based social prescribing against loneliness alongside the RECETAS trials
BMC Public Health

Leveraging the power of positive childhood experiences: a case study of a social prescribing program for children and youth in Canada
Journal of Integrated Care

Connecting for health: qualitative exploration of community nursing in social prescribing for social determinants of health
Frontiers in Public Health

A qualitative exploration of a UK nature-based social prescribing scheme: The service user perspective
Social Medicine

Evaluating the Social Return on Investment of Nature-Based Social Prescribing to Alleviate Loneliness: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Barcelona
Frontiers in Public Health

Social Prescribing: Outcomes, Mechanisms, and Implementation Barriers
Research Output Journal of Education

The health economics of social prescribing: a systematic review
BMJ Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

The impact of social prescribing on well-being outcomes in a nationwide analysis
Nature Health

The Role of Arts on Prescription in Supporting Young Adults’ Mental Health and Life Transitions.
iScience

Green prescriptions: an innovative approach to human health from a planetary health perspective
phenomena journal

Measuring the Iceberg: Complex Lives, Invisible Metrics, and Lived Experience in Social Prescribing
Frontiers in Public Health

It’s Green Gym, but not as we know it: examining the historical roots of voluntary sector provision of social prescribing focusing on gardening on prescription in the UK
Medical Humanities

THESES

Journeys off Cognitive Transformation and Regenerative Healing: A Qualitative Study of Matricentric Healing Educators on California’s Coast

The impact of nature-based interventions on the wellbeing of vulnerable adults.

Learn to Draw, Learn to See: Cognitive Mechanisms of Observational Drawing and Implications for Healthy Aging

The impact of museum programmes on older adults with cognitive impairment during the COVID-19 pandemic

Persephone, Catapulted: A Performance Autoethnography on the Experience of Biculturalism in the First Year of Multiple Myeloma Diagnosis

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173 Articles Highlighting Arts in Health

Aly Maier — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:34:00 GMT

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Arts in health is happening, people!

This roundup contains 173 articles highlighting the arts’ role in medical learning, healthcare, public health, and more:

Featured Articles — 14 (you can see it was hard to choose!)
General Arts in Health — 86
Aging & Exercise Study Features — 17
Arts Prescribing — 16
Universities — 40

These are just articles published since March!

Take a look and marvel at the depth and variety of ways the arts are being used to translate, connect, celebrate, communicate, and advocate.

If you feel so moved, find a story or two that you relate to and share it with your networks — because all of these are arts in health in action. (#thisisartsinhealth, #artsinhealthinaction — are we still doing hashtags?)

I hope reading through these stories brings a smile to your face and inspires you to keep doing good in the world.

xoxo,

Aly

(PS: Research Round Up coming next week-ish…)

Note: Some news sites have paywalls

FEATURED ARTICLES

Art for art’s sake, but for people’s health too
The Guardian

Georgia legislature first in nation to link arts and mental health
SaportaReport

Rescued mural depicting Alice’s adventures in New York wonderland back on view for first time in decades
The Art Newspaper

Engaging with the arts can slow biological aging, study shows
NPR

Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine?
The Guardian

Engaging with the Arts May Be as Beneficial as Exercise, Study Says
People.com

Is Art Good for Your Health?
ArtReview

UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine hosts Creating Healthy Communities forum
WCJB

First‑ever Arts in Health Conference at Rowan highlights innovation in healing through the arts
Rowan Today - Rowan University

Lab launch to highlight how the arts can help address discrimination in health care
Brock University

UCL academic is Royal Albert Hall’s first Associate Scientist
University College London

The Greek government pilots ‘Cultural Prescription’: A holistic health care approach
The Greek Herald

Crafting’s comeback and the science behind it | The Excerpt
USA Today

Art Is Becoming a Medical Treatment
Reasons to be Cheerful

ARTS IN HEALTH - GENERAL

Arts medicine
Morning Star

Alice Walton promoted growth, invested in art and health care education in Northwest Arkansas
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Arts Engagement: A public health lifeline
Public Health Scotland

Art is health infrastructure: Rethinking gender-based violence responses for newcomer women
Healthy Debate

The Long Island Museum to host 10th Annual Arts & Alzheimer’s Conference on June 18
TBR News Media

Cambridge Health Alliance raises more than $1M at record-setting Art of Healing Gala
The Somerville Times

Music and art therapy take center stage in new Hampton Roads health research
WTKR

Arts and Mental Health Framework
Creative Scotland

Improving Indigenous Heart Health: Community is Key, an Arts-Based Graphic Report Reveals
Elsevier

Celebrating 30 Years of Center for Performing Arts Medicine
Texas Medical Center

GUEST OPINION: The arts belong in the wellness conversation
Colorado Springs Gazette

Memphis Took a Trauma-Informed Music Program to Greece, and It Started Right Here
Choose901

Healing, wellness event at Strand to ring in Juneteenth weekend with art, community
The Bay State Banner

Art, movement and mental health for New York’s first responders
Spectrum News

New Mural by Emma Kohlmann Unveiled at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue
NYC Health + Hospitals

See the Rescued and Restored ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Mural Painted for Sick Children at a New York Hospital
Smithsonian Magazine

Art Hounds: New SWANA plays, 5-minute films and art meets healthcare
MPR News

Green Bay nonprofit ‘Art Is Medicine’, helps veterans & first responders through the arts
Fox 11

Art is Medicine inspires healing, happiness, and connection through creativity
WFRV

The art of healing
The Martha’s Vineyard Times

Expertise waiting in the wings: Including the arts into the centre of care
Healthy Debate

Music as medicine: How the arts can heal
WXXI News

Planetary Health and Neuroarts
Psychology Today

Jackson Hole Public Art and St. John’s Health Foundation invite artists to join Healing Art Database
Buckrail

A vast exhibition of urology themed art in various media from more than 60 artists across the globe.
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art

Art installations at Novant Health Ballantyne aim to ease patient stress
WSOC TV

Novant program aims to battle loneliness through free access to the arts
WSOC TV

Shaw Festival program uses theatre to train health care providers
Niagara-on-the-Lake Local

Turning Music Into Moments of Healing and Connection - Moffitt Cancer Center
Moffitt Cancer Center

Club Chemo: How One Woman Is Transforming Cancer Treatment with Music
The Zebra Press

Ritual4Return Brings South Jersey Homecoming Rite of Passage to Collingswood’s Perkins Center
The Retrospect

How is art bringing attention to air quality?
The Public’s Radio

Mount Sinai Launches the Marilyn Monroe Mental Health for the Arts Program
Mount Sinai

Cellist Joshua Roman Joins Study Investigating Music’s Ability to Mitigate Long COVID
Symphony.org

The Healing Power of Art in Healthcare
YouTube

How Arts and Improv Are Transforming Healthcare
YouTube

Turning breast cancer into art with Cancer Research UK
The Lancet

Stockholm conference highlights the role of art in healthcare
Karolinska Institutet

Opinion: Why the arts belong at the center of healing
CT Mirror

Movement meets medicine: ‘Dance for All People’ documentary to screen at Newport Art Museum
What’s Up Newport

SaludArte art exhibit shares stories of recovery
Pima County FYI External Newsletter | Pima County, AZ

Artists gather to explore connection between arts and healing
SDPB

How art in health centre waiting rooms can help anxiety
RNZ

INTERVIEW | Alexis Milligan Talks About The Theatre Of Medicine Program
Ludwig Van

Rep. McGovern highlights art’s role in mental health
WWLP

Arts in medicine advocate calls for stronger creative partnerships | Tribune Online
Tribune Online

At Landmark Conference, Arts in Medicine Advocate Amplify Creative Partnerships
THISDAYLIVE

How Medical Students Are Reviving the Arts to Promote Empathy in the Exam Room
HealthCity - Boston Medical Center

New Exhibit Explores Connection Of Good Medicine And Art
The Texas Signal

The Lost Art Of Medicine: What Maimonides Knew That We Forgot – OpEd
Eurasia Review

New Green Bay center uses art to help heal veterans, responders
NBC26

The Arts Are Essential to Our Health
Two River Times

How to appreciate art slowly – and why doing so is good for you
Positive News

Georgia Passes Law Recognizing Arts as Mental Health Resource
National Today

Your Therapy Homework: Get to the Theater
Psychology Today

Arts as Medicine: Research and Practices Supporting the Role of Arts in Wellbeing
989 XFM

Can art heal us? Arts in medicine, Part 1
Mayo Clinic Press

When doctors do improv: Arts in medicine Part 2
Mayo Clinic Press

God’s design for healing? Creativity
Woman Alive

How writing, art — even health sciences classes — are using UIC Gallery 400
UIC today

How theatre can improve human connection in medicine - The Ontario Medical Association
The Ontario Medical Association

Healthy Acadia celebrates 25 years, invites community to create ‘Art for Health and Hope’ During National Public Health Week
Bangor Daily News

Open invitation to policy brief launch: The role of the arts in addressing the health impacts of climate change
World Health Organization (WHO)

Can arts be used as pain relief?
YouTube

Bradford art scheme to help hundreds with severe mental illnesses
BBC

Resistance movement: how a play about penicillin brought the arts, science and politics together
The Guardian

Cone Health Unveils Healing Art at The Resurgent
Cone Health

Pender County storytelling event to feature resident voices on public health
WECT

When loneliness is the diagnosis, what can family doctors do?
World Health Organization (WHO)

Hip‑hop icons use star power to promote health advocacy in Wilmington
ABC7

‘Eudaimonic well-being’ — the impact of art in healthcare - The Island News
The Island News

The Art of Wellness: How Creativity Is Good for Your Health and Happiness
Montecito Journal

NYC Health + Hospitals Receives Six Sing for Hope Pianos Designed by Artists
NYC Health + Hospitals

UCL professor named UNESCO chair for arts and global health
UCL

I Spent an Afternoon with Neuroscientists and Artists — Here Is the No. 1 Health Habit
Kiplinger

Crystal Bridges, health care association launch statewide arts initiative
Talk Business & Politics

Art, Memory, and Caregiving with Multidisciplinary Artist Kristin M. Beck
YouTube

Milwaukee VA Helps Fulfill Artistic Veteran’s Dying Wish
VA.gov

Southminster launches study on creative aging
Matthews-Mint Hill Weekly

Health meets Hollywood at USC Arts + Health symposium
USC Today

Can looking at this painting slow dementia?
Financial Times

Art as medicine: Beaufort Memorial expands healing arts for Bluffton hospital
WJCL

The relationship between art and mental health
Arts Professional

Neuroscience + Arts Take Center Stage in Health and Wellness
Newswise

Finding new pathways: The transformative role of art in stroke recovery
HMRI

AGING & EXERCISE PUBLICATION FEATURES

Study finds arts engagement may help slow aging process
YouTube

The Guardian view on public health and the arts: the all-singing, all-dancing science of ageing
The Guardian

Engaging with arts and culture can slow biological aging as much as exercise, study suggests
CNN

Doing These Activities Just a Few Times a Year May Help Your Body Age More Slowly
Health

The fun activities that can trick your body into aging slower
New York Post

Visiting Museums May Slow Your Biological Aging, Study Finds
Science Alert

Arts engagement linked to slower biological ageing, study says
The Art Newspaper

Study finds engaging with the arts can slow biological aging
Texas Public Radio

Engaging with art can slow aging, study finds
The Week

Could creative pursuits help slow down aging?
Medical News Today

Arts and cultural engagement ‘linked to slower pace of biological ageing’
The Guardian

Engaging with the arts can slow biological aging, study shows
AZPM News

A Night at the Theater May Be Just as Good for Your Health as Exercise, According to New Research
Real Simple

Arts engagement may slow aging as much as exercise
Earth.com

Creative Pursuits Can Slow Aging as Much as Exercise
Everyday Health

Exercise is vital to your health, but so are the arts. Here’s how to reap the benefits
Los Angeles Times

Exercise is vital to your health, but so are the arts. Here’s how to reap the benefits
AOL.com

ARTS PRESCRIBING

Art on repeat prescription
The Lancet

‘Arts programs can be prescribed as clinical care’
YouTube

Prescribing Art: Museums as Public Health Partners
ELYSIAN Magazine

All Ireland Social Prescribing Conference brings North and South together in Dundalk
Cork County PPN

Out Loud, Arts on Prescription, Ghost Forests and M.F.K Fisher
Pacific Sun

How the Vancouver Art Gallery Is Turning Art Into a Prescription for Wellbeing - MuseumNext
Museum Next

The social prescription: Why meaning, not medicine, may be Korea’s missing treatment
The Korea Times

Spain’s Push to Prescribe Art in Primary Care
Medscape

Art as medicine: Social prescribing takes patients from clinics to connection
WFAE

‘Social prescribing’ has doctors writing scripts for nature walks and art classes. It’s working
Yahoo News Malaysia

SocialRx teams up with FQHC in NYC to prescribe arts and culture for chronically ill patients
Fierce Healthcare

Finish Line: The quiet rise of “prescribing connection”
Axios

CCRC hopes new arts ‘prescription’ pilot program will lead to resident wellness model for industry
McKnight’s Senior Living

Socializing and the arts are important for our wellbeing. Soon they may be prescribed.
WXPR

The Art Prescription: What the Science Now Says About Creativity and Brain Health
AGEIST

Southminster Launches Nation’s First “Creative Aging on Prescription” Study with Major Research University and National Arts & Aging Experts
PR Newswire

UNIVERSITIES

U-M launches comprehensive social prescribing initiatives
The University Record - University of Michigan

Lobby Music at Strong Memorial Hospital
University of Rochester

Where Art Meets Medicine
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

University Libraries to Host Traveling HIV/AIDS Poster Exhibit
UToledo News - University of Toledo

Healing Arts Program launches first staff art exhibition
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Iowa City Community Leader Believes in the Healing Power of Art
IOWA Magazine - University of Iowa Center for Advancement

UTSA Arts launches citywide series on the impact of arts in prisons
UT San Antonio Today

The Art of Healing: Students Find Meaning and Beauty Through Writing and Art
Yale School of Medicine - Yale University

When art meets medicine
University of Utah Health Sciences

‘Broadening the horizons of what arts and humanities work looks like’ - Stories
Santa Clara University

Humanities majors lead to path in public health - McCausland College of Arts and Sciences
University of South Carolina

The art of medicine
Wright State Newsroom - Wright State University

ASU Outstanding Undergrad Hana Roushdy lives at the intersection of art and medicine
ASU News - Arizona State University

Cultivating health through public space
Penn Today - University of Pennsylvania

New project aims to improve children’s experiences of medical procedures | King’s College London
King’s College London

Arts Care 2026
Mount Royal University

UK employees invited to submit to the 12th annual Arts in HealthCare art call
UKNow - University of Kentucky

In Performing Arts Medicine, ‘Physical Therapy Has to Meet the Art’
Tufts Now - Tufts University

Our health is stronger together: Insights from Dr. Monica Wang’s ‘The Collective Cure’
The Tufts Daily

From storytelling to surgery: Medical students embrace the arts | University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

The museum as medical school training ground - University of Minnesota Twin Cities
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

The art of medicine (courtesy Dr. Andy McLean) - For Your Health
University of North Dakota Blogs

See “Every Body Blooms: A Disability-Centered Fashion Experience” at UAB on April 2
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Call Time: CU Anschutz Medical Student Melds Love of Humanities with Medicine
CU Anschutz newsroom

Original Article: Drawing Toward Empathy—Physician Communication
CU Anschutz newsroom

Medical students blend comedy and clinical skills in improv miniseries | CWRU Newsroom
Case Western Reserve University

Building the Neuroarts Movement: Georgia State at the Crossroads of Art and Neuroscience
Georgia State University News

This UA program treats anxiety with art and theater
Tucson Spotlight

UM doctoral student launches healthcare children’s book series - The Miami Hurricane
The Miami Hurricane

Health, Technology, Art, and Design Intersect at UC Davis Graduate Showcase
Hyperallergic

The Art of Healing: Students Find Meaning and Beauty Through Writing and Art
Newswise

Saharra Dixon Receives Renée Fleming NeuroArts Investigator Award
UMass Amherst

Fine Arts Center to Host Statewide Convening on Arts, Health and Wellbeing on April 10
UMass Amherst

‘Arts can help us live longer’: UMass convening highlights growing evidence linking arts to improved health
Daily Hampshire Gazette

McGovern highlights art’s mental health role at UMass event
YouTube

‘Art teaches perspective’: UM project explores virtual reality to improve clinical skills
WLRN

VCU Health surgeon keeps a pulse on painting masterpieces
VCU Health

Class of 2026: Aspiring medical illustrator Zora Weir-Gertzog is drawn to art and science
VCU News - Virginia Commonwealth University

Healing Arts to feature ‘Into Whooperland’ exhibition
UNMC

Turning Heartbeats Into Art and Harmony
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health

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Aly Maier — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:42:32 GMT

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Hello dear community,

Lots of arts in health job opportunities are listed below.

In between these emails, I’m always re-posting arts in health or arts in health adjacent jobs on my LinkedIn.

If you have a job posting you want highlighted in this newsletter, email me at aly@alysonmaier.com.

xo,

aly

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Aly Maier — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:14:30 GMT

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Hi folks,

Check out this month’s list of arts in health job opportunities below — and keep scrolling for conferences, training and professional development.

In between these emails, I’m always re-posting arts in health or arts in health adjacent jobs on my LinkedIn.

If you have a job you want highlighted in this newsletter, email…

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Aly Maier — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:39:35 GMT

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Hi everyone,

It’s way too late to say “happy new year ” right?
Well, I hope you’re finding happiness anyway. I found happiness at the HeARTbeat event at Lincoln Center this past weekend - a day filled with fun, creative, and innovative arts in health programming, produced by the talented Kate Villa.

I’ve been tinkerin…

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Aly Maier — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:23:37 GMT

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Over the last few months, there have been countless times when looking at the news has made me anxious, angry, sad, or despondent.

But when I read through the seventy-eight (!) stories below about how arts, culture, and creativity are helping people find respite, joy, connection, and community — I am buoyed.

These brig…

Arts in Health Research Roundup

Aly Maier — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:56:29 GMT

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(Note: Some journals with arts in health research articles may have paywalls.)

NEW ARTS IN HEALTH JOURNAL LAUNCH:

Perspectives on Arts in Health

NEW BOOK RELEASES:

Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health

Art Cure

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

What do we mean by ‘creative health’? The benefits of defining ‘creativity’in the arts and health …

Aly's Arts in Health Blog: November 2025

Aly Maier — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:45:40 GMT

Another close call — November went by fast!

But here we are, mere minutes away from December (where I am in the world at least) — hurdling towards 2026.

I want to take a moment to thank every single person who reads these posts, who subscribes and follows, and everyone who took time out of their lives these past few weeks to write words of gratitude for…

Things I'm Into: November 2025

Aly Maier — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:35:00 GMT

November tunes:

Good Light

Aly Maier — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:33:53 GMT

I loved being pregnant. People hate when people say that! But it’s true. I was lucky that I didn’t have too much morning sickness or nausea (although I did have some heartburn there at the end), I slept well, I stayed active.

But fairly early on in my pregnancy I realized something significant: it was the first time in my life that I was not trying to l…

Arts in Health Research Roundup

Aly Maier — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:59:26 GMT

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NEW ARTS IN HEALTH JOURNAL LAUNCH:

Perspectives on Arts in Health

NEW BOOK RELEASES:

Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health

Art Cure

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Likelihood of following a physician prescription to engage in the arts in the US
iScience

Advancin…

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Aly Maier — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:17:30 GMT

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Arts in Health Headlines

Aly Maier — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:27:29 GMT

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The Guardian view on art and health: the masterpiece can cure the body as well as the soul
The Guardian

Doctor’s Orders: Get Out There and Socialize
Business Insider

These creative activities may help slow down brain aging
The Washington Post

Healing with creativity, UF s…

Aly's Arts in Health Blog: October 2025

Aly Maier — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:30:56 GMT

Credit: Jerry Chapusette, October 15, 2025

By the skin of my teeth — an October Arts in Health blog!

Earlier this month I co-produced and hosted the Creating Healthy Communities Convening at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and two weeks later I’m still processing what an incredible gathering it was.

Early in the planning process, from a now-forgott…