In this episode, we discuss the phenomenon of social prescribing of the arts, its traction in the UK, and growing interest among arts/health researchers and practitioners. A transcript of this podcast is available at the NEA website. … [Read more...] about Quick Study: The Arts in Social Prescribing
Ashleigh Gordon
Violist, Co-founder and Artistic/Executive Director of Castle of our Skins Violist Ashleigh Gordon is the co-founder and artistic/executive director of Castle of our Skins—a music initiative in Boston that celebrates Black artistry in music. Violist Ashleigh Gordon and pianist Anthony R. Green were students at the New England Conservatory of Music and were frustrated by the … [Read more...] about Ashleigh Gordon
Taking a Page from Baldwin: Book-Reading as a Violence Coping and Prevention Strategy
In 1963, James Baldwin told a LIFE magazine reporter: “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected to me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open … [Read more...] about Taking a Page from Baldwin: Book-Reading as a Violence Coping and Prevention Strategy
Meet the New Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts-Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson!
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, the 13th chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, is no stranger to the Arts Endowment having had a great deal of first-hand experience with the agency as she has served on the National Council on the Arts since 2013. She comes to the position of chair with years of experience in comprehensive community building that focuses on the centrality of … [Read more...] about Meet the New Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts-Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson!
Quick Study: Some Stats on Book-Reading
In this episode, we take stock of recent studies about book-reading through print and digital media, and how patterns may have changed during the pandemic. A transcript of this podcast is available at the NEA website. … [Read more...] about Quick Study: Some Stats on Book-Reading