Working at the Intersection of Arts and Community Health: Perspectives on New Research and Practice

Monday, October 13, 11:10am – 12:40pm

Organized by Amy Kitchener, Executive Director, Alliance for California Traditional Arts; and Maria Rosario Jackson, Senior Adviser, Arts & Culture, The Kresge Foundation.

Presented by Sunil Iyengar, Research and Analysis Director, National Endowment for the Arts-Research and Analysis; Maria Rosario Jackson, Senior Adviser to the Arts and Culture Program, The Kresge Foundation; and Amy Kitchener, Executive Director, Alliance for California Traditional Arts.

Health foundations, arts funders, the Department of Defense, and more than a dozen federal agencies have a stake in the arts. We seek to further understand how the diverse array of activity at the intersection of arts and health impacts individuals and communities and can be mutually reinforcing. By sharing on current national and local initiatives and research, we will explore a range of arts impacts in the health arena, lessons learned from cross-sectoral collaborations between the arts and health sectors, and the prospects for continued collaborations. We will also share national perspectives drawing on its Interagency Task Force activities and on research impacting health, including recent work with the military. Finally, we will share lessons and examples from its pilot place-based work in collaboration with the California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities, including case studies on Boyle Heights in Los Angeles and the rural E. Coachella Valley.