The Role of the Arts and Artists in Health across the Lifespan Preconference

Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale
One East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, FL

Working with the National Center for Creative Aging, the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, and national and local Florida arts and healthcare providers, GIA explores how artists are improving the lives and health of Americans from early childhood to end of life care. Learn from nationally acclaimed experts on how funders can support and promote these life-changing programs. The preconference will be held at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale.

Transportation is included in registration for the preconference and is provided from the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach.

Thank You for Making this Possible

This preconference and sessions within the main conference on healthcare and aging have been generously supported by:

MetLife Foundation
Pabst Charitable Foundation for the Arts
National Center for Creative Aging through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale

Preconference Planning Committee Members

Anita Boles, Executive Director, Society for the Arts in Healthcare, Washington DC
Janet Brown, Executive Director, Grantmakers in the Arts
Dr. Gay Hanna, PhD, MFA, Executive Director, National Center for Creative Aging, Washington DC
Lynn Mandeville, Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving, Holy Cross Hospital, Ft Lauderdale
James Shermer, Grants Administrator, Broward County Cultural Division
Dr. David Spangler, PhD, Director of Education, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, and Program Administrator, Interdisciplinary Arts Program Nova Southeastern University

Schedule

7:45 am	7:45 am Depart Eden Roc Hotel
8:30 am	8:30 am Arrive Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Continental breakfast and coffee
9:00 am	9:00 am Opening performance: Gary Glazner, poet The Artist's Role in Health: Where We Are and Where We're Going Jill Sonke, MA and John Graham-Pole, MD Arts and healing is an age-old pairing enjoying a contemporary renaissance. From neonatal units to end-of-life care, the arts and related therapies are increasingly accepted forms of preventative and clinical care. As the field of arts and health grows, so do opportunities for artists to pursue their work to transform health and healing by connecting people with the arts at key moments in their lives. New professional standards, fellowships and residencies, and certification and degree programs are all part of the emerging landscape to engage artists in the field of arts and health.
10:00 am	10:00 am Break
10:30 am	10:30 am The Role of the Arts and Artists in Healthcare Session organizer: Anita Boles The arts create safer, supportive, and more functional environments in healthcare facilities. In addition, the integration of the arts into the patient experience has a positive impact on health outcomes. The arts aid in physical, mental, and emotional recovery by relieving anxiety and decreasing a patient’s perception of pain. In an atmosphere where a sense of control is often lost or minimized, the arts serve as a therapeutic and healing tool. Arts programming for healthcare providers also creates a more normative environment within which care can be provided, helping to change the culture of care to one that is person-centered. A panel of experts will talk about the arts and artists in healthcare from research to practice and opportunities for funding. Panelists: Jill Sonke, University of Florida, Center for Arts in Medicine Javier Rosado, Clinical Assistant Professor, The Florida State University, College of Medicine Beth Bienvenu, Office of Accessibility, National Endowment for the Arts
12:00 pm	12:00 pm Lunch (12:30) Performance by Gary Glazner, poet The Role of the Arts in Medical Education Keynote and exhibit by Wilma Siegel, MD
1:15 pm	1:15 pm Break
1:45 pm	1:45 pm Community Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan Session organizer: Gay Hanna Artists and arts programs are essential to building stronger, healthier, more vibrant communities that fully integrate older adults as key within the fabric of their community. Research continues to demonstrate the vital link between creative engagement and healthy aging. As the baby boomers continue to turn 65 at the unprecedented rate of 10,000 per day, it is vital to develop strong best practices and models for community-based arts programming that values older adults as keepers of culture, enables everyone to age in place as dynamic members of society, and providers younger generations with positive role models – while encouraging a strong sense of place, meaning, and purpose as vital members of the community. Panelists: Margery Pabst, Pabst Charitable Foundation for the Arts Gary Glazner, Alzheimer’s Poetry Project Joan Jeffri, Research Center for Arts and Culture
3:15 pm	3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm	3:30 pm Performance by Gary Glazner, poet Wrap Up: How Does This Work Moving Forward? What is the Funder's Role? Facilitated by Sunil Iyengar
4:15 pm	4:30 pm Adjourn and depart for Miami Beach

Speakers and Panelists

Beth Bienvenu

Dr. Beth Bienvenu is the Director of the Office of Accessibility at the National Endowment for the Arts, where she manages the NEA's technical assistance and advocacy work devoted to making the arts accessible for people with disabilities, older adults, veterans, and people in institutional settings. She provides guidance and support to state arts agency staff and professionals working the fields of arts access, creativity and aging, arts and health, universal design, and arts in corrections.

Prior to coming to the NEA, she worked as a Policy Advisor for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), where she analyzed public and private sector policies and practices related to the employment for persons with disabilities. She also served as an adjunct professor for George Mason University’s Master of Arts in Arts Management program, where she taught courses in arts policy and comparative international arts policy, and she has a background in performing arts management. Prior to coming to Washington DC, she worked in public relations for classical and folk musicians, managed a youth chorus, and served as assistant director for the Bloomington Early Music Festival in Bloomington, Indiana.

Dr. Bienvenu received her bachelor’s degree in sociology and music from Alma College, master’s degrees in sociology and arts administration from Indiana University, and her Ph.D. in organizational leadership from the University of Oklahoma

Anita Boles

Anita Boles, MPA, has served as the executive director of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare since 2008. The Society is an international membership organization representing over 1,700 programs and individuals working to advance the arts in health, healing, and healthcare. During her tenure, Anita initiated a strategic plan to better define the organization’s role in the growing field and expand resources and programs, such as regranting opportunities, educational forums, online tools, and consulting services, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2009, she helped the Society launch a professional journal, Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice (Taylor & Francis), and she has expanded educational programs to include partnership forums in Rwanda, Israel, and the United Kingdom, growing the organization's global profile. With the support of Johnson & Johnson, the Society has also developed and launched a unique training and evaluation pilot program to build the capacity of regional arts and health networks to reach underserved populations, providing the networks with comprehensive instruments for needs assessment and strategic planning and guiding them through these processes.

Prior to her position at the Society, Anita served for over 25 years as an executive in health and human service–related nonprofit and government agencies, including those addressing arts in healthcare, health literacy, maternal and child health, and crime victimization and victim assistance. She has authored or co-authored publications on such issues as improving community responsiveness towards crime victims, cultural considerations in assisting victims of sexual assault and physical abuse, health concerns during pregnancy, and numerous topics related to arts and health. Also a visual artist, she is passionate about approaching health and healing creatively by bringing the arts to people at key moments of their lives.

Gary Glazner

Gary Glazner is the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project, (APP). The National Endowment for the Arts listed the APP as a “best practice” for their Arts and Aging initiative. NBC's “Today” show, NPR's “All Things Considered” and Voice of America have featured segments on Glazner’s work. Harper Collins, W.W. Norton and Salon.com have published his work. Glazner has worked with many institutions using their art to inspire the performance and creation of poetry by people living with memory loss including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.

In 2010, the U.S. Embassy in Berlin funded a pilot project for the APP in Germany, this work has led to the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw is funding a pilot project for the APP in Poland in 2012. In 1990, working with Marc Smith the inventor of the Poetry Slam, a performance poetry competition, Glazner produced the first National Poetry Slam, which was held in San Francisco. This annual event is now in its 23rd year. To date the APP has held programming in 23 states and served over 10,000 people living with dementia. The Alzheimer's Poetry Project was awarded the 2012 MetLife Foundation Creativity and Aging in America Leadership Award in the category of Community Engagement.

John Graham-Pole

John Graham-Pole, MD, MRCP, ABHM, is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Oncology and Palliative Care, University of Florida, and Adjunct Professor, School of Education, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia. His career as a practitioner, teacher, and researcher has included previous faculty appointments at the Universities of London and Case Western Reserve. He has received federal research grants totaling more than $1M in the field of arts and health.

He was co-founder & co-director of Shands Arts in Medicine since its inception in 1991, and also of the Center for the Arts in Healthcare, Research & Education, University of Florida, since its founding in 1999. He served for several years on the Boards of the American Holistic Medical Association as well as the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, for which he is currently serving as a Healthcare Ambassador. He is also a member of the Arts Health Network Canada steering committee.

John has written/edited six books, and a CD of original poetry, as well as about 250 peer-reviewed research articles, book chapters, and poems in refereed journals. More recently, he has become a short story writer, inspired primarily by his forty years as a doctor. He has recently finished his first novel and a memoir. He has been a keynote speaker and presenter at several hundred national and international conferences.

Gay Hanna

Gay Powell Hanna, PhD, MFA, an arts administration leader with 30 years management experience in the arts, education and health related program services, is the executive director of the National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA), an affiliate of George Washington University. NCCA is an interdisciplinary nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering an understanding of the vital relationship between creative expression and the quality of life for older people regardless of ethnic, economic status or level of physical or cognitive functioning. NCCA provides professional development and technical assistance including service as a clearinghouse for best practices, research and policy development to encourage and sustain arts and humanities program in various community and health care settings.

Previously Dr. Hanna served as the executive director of the Society for the Arts in Health from 2003 through May 2007. Through faculty positions at Florida State University and University of South Florida from 1987 to 2003, Dr. Hanna directed VSA Arts of Florida, an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, providing arts education programs for people with disabilities including people with chronic illness. In 2001, she established the Florida Center for Creative Aging at the Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging at the University of South Florida to address quality of life issues. As a contributing author to numerous articles and books, Dr. Hanna was the lead author of a recently published white paper produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, “The Arts and Human Development: Framing A National Research Agenda For The Arts, Lifelong Learning, And Individual Well-Being” (November 2011). Dr. Hanna is an associate professor at George Washington University in the Health Sciences Department.

Sunil Iyengar

Sunil Iyengar directs the Office of Research & Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. Since his arrival at the NEA in June 2006, the office has produced more than 20 research publications, hosted several research events and webinars, launched a research grants program, updated the NEA's five-year strategic plan, and revised and expanded a federal survey about arts participation. Some of the NEA’s most recent research includes: The Arts and Achievement in at-Risk Youth: Findings from Four Longitudinal Studies; Time and Money: Using Federal Data to Measure Performing Art Activities; Arts Education in America: What the Declines Mean for Arts Participation; Live from Your Neighborhood: A National Study of Outdoor Arts Festivals; and Audience 2.0: How Technology Influences Arts Participation. The office also has published such reports as Artists in the Workforce 1990-2005, To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence, and The Arts and Civic Engagement: Involved in Arts, Involved in Life.

For a decade, Iyengar worked as a reporter, managing editor, and senior editor for a host of news publications covering the biomedical research, medical device, and pharmaceutical industries. He writes poetry, and his book reviews have appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The American Scholar, The New Criterion, Essays in Criticism, and Contemporary Poetry Review. Iyengar has a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Joan Jeffri

Joan Jeffri is the founding director of the Research Center for Arts and Culture at the National Center for Creative Aging in Washington DC; and is the former director of the graduate program in Arts Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University where she served for 22 years. She has authored numerous research and books about arts and aging including: Still Kicking; Above Ground; Making Changes: Facilitating the Transition of Dancers to Post-Performance Careers concerned with aging artists; Changing the Beat: A Study of the Worklife of Jazz Musicians (NEA); Respect for Art: Visual Arts Administration and Management in China and the United States; The Emerging Arts: Management, Survival and Growth; and ArtsMoney: Raising It, Saving It and Earning It. Jeffri has edited: Information on Artists I, II, III; and Artist-Help: The Artist’s Guide to Work-Related Human and Social Services.

Jeffri has served as the Academic Director of the Arts Leadership Institute with the Arts & Business Council and the Former Executive Editor at the Journal of Arts Management and Law. The articles she has published include Poetics, International Journal of Cultural Policy, American Demographics. Jeffri has served on the national task force for artists’ health care and insurance for the National Endowment for the Arts, as President of the Board of the International Arts-Medicine Association, and on the Advisory Board of the Cultural Policy and National Data Archive at Princeton University. She has taught and consulted in Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Portugal, Russia.

Margery Pabst

Margery Pabst is President of the Pabst Charitable Foundation for the Arts. She is also a speaker, facilitator, and the author of four books on life transitions. Her latest book, Enrich Your Caregiving Journey, focuses on the needs of the caregiver. Over 130 tips are provided through engaging stories of three families caring for a child, a spouse, and a parent. Margery speaks at a variety of venues, among them public television conferences, national Hospice conferences, universities, and hospital foundations. Her keen interest in what successful people do when faced with transition makes for lively and thought-provoking presentations. Margery is also an expert in communications and leadership.

Margery is the author of “Ask the Caregiving Coach,” a monthly feature for project-compassion.com and is the host of “Caregiver and Physician Conversations” sponsored by eCareDiary.com, where she also serves as their caregiving expert.

Javiar Rosado

Javier Rosado is a Florida Licensed Psychologist specializing in Pediatric Psychology. He has research experience in educational psychology as well as in behavioral medicine. He recently led a study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examining childhood obesity among Latino children residing in rural areas and is currently evaluating the effectiveness of dance programs in improving the health status of overweight children.

Dr. Rosado received his PhD from The Florida State University in 2008 and was previously an intern at the Yale University Medical School. Dr. Rosado is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at the FSU College of Medicine Immokalee Health Education Site, a shared campus with The Healthcare Network of Southwest FL, a community health center located in rural Immokalee. Dr. Rosado serves as the coordinator of Immokalee Arts in Health, a program that was formed with support from the Arts in Healthcare for Rural Communities initiative of the UF Center for Arts in Medicine.

Wilma Siegel

Wilma Bulkin Siegel, M.D. graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958 and received her medical degree in 1962 at Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. She has had a distinguished career as a prominent oncologist in New York City. She was a pioneer establishing one of the first hospices in the state of New York and one of the first to accept AIDS patients. In the capacity of Medical Director of that hospice she was asked to give her expertise on AIDS to the Presidential Commission in Washington.

Following her retirement she combined medicine with her other childhood career target, painting, by attending The National Academy of Design. She has become an award-winning artist recognized nationally for her series of people living with AIDS, Survivors of AIDS, The Changing Faces of AIDS (Seniors), Breast Cancer Survivors, The Homeless, and the Elderly. Dr. Siegel has exhibited throughout the country, particularly in connection with events involved with AIDS and cancer. She has been featured on CNN television for her AIDS series and she has been elected into Who’s Who in American Art 2001. In the year 2005, April –October, she was featured in a one-woman exhibition “Holocaust Survivors and Liberators” at The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Her current passion is to bring art into the medical field as an educational tool and a forum for healing.

In this new field of art in medicine, she has been instrumental in creating a program at the University of Miami in Florida and Columbia Medical Center in New York City bringing artists to work with patients and also teaching medical students to see in a different way. She is a member of the Advisory Council of Columbia Medical Center, New York City and the School of Nursing, Drexel University, Philadelphia. In 2006 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters and was commencement speaker at Drexel University. In April 2009 she was awarded the highest honor for contribution to the field of arts in Healthcare Janice Palmer Award of Society of Arts in Healthcare.

Jill Sonke

Jill Sonke is director of the Center for the Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida, is Assistant Director of Shands Arts in Medicine, and is on the faculty of the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida. She has been an Artist in Residence in the Shands Arts in Medicine program since 1994, where she founded the Dance for Life program.

Jill is active in research, curriculum and program development at UF, serves on the board of directors of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, runs numerous international service learning and cultural exchange programs, and is a frequent presenter, consultant, and guest artist at universities, conferences, and festivals throughout the United States and abroad. Jill is the recipient of a New Forms Florida Fellowship Award, an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the State of Florida, a 2001 Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, a UF Internationalizing the Curriculum Award, a Most Outstanding Service Learning Faculty Award from UF, and over eighty grant awards for her programs and research at the University of Florida and Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics.