Press Room

January 2010 | Art for health's sake by Christopher Yasiejko, The Inquirer

April 2009 | A Doll that's Worth a Thousand Words by Erin McClary, CandGNews.com

November 2008 | Virginia Opera's 'Elixir of Love' is a musical tonic for wellness by Teresa Annas, The Virginian Pilot

Society Press Releases

April 27, 2010 | Society for the Arts in Healthcare Appoints New Board Member
The Society for the Arts in Healthcare announced the appointment of Ellen Offner, MBA, Principal of Offner Consulting, LLC, to its Board of Directors.  

August 2009 | Society for the Arts in Healthcare Receives Quality of Life Grant from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
Funding will support the development of a webinar on best practices for arts programming for people living with paralysis, providing access to cutting-edge information for up to 75 professionals.

June 19, 2009 | Society for the Arts in Healthcare Appoints New Board Member
The Society for the Arts in Healthcare announced the appointment of Xueli Tan, MM, MT-BC, Research and Clinical music therapist of The Music Settlement to its Board of Directors.

April 6, 2009 | Society for the Arts in Healthcare's 20th Annual Conference
The Society for the Arts in Healthcare and the University at Buffalo (UB) will convene over 350 international art and healthcare professionals and students in Buffalo, New York, April 22 - 25, 2009 to explore strategies and best practices for incorporating the arts into healthcare settings. Hands-on workshops, participatory seminars, posters, tours and performances will offer participants a unique view of the vital role the arts play in health.

April 6, 2009 | New Arts & Health Journal Launched
Routledge announced today the launch of Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, the first international forum for the publication of research, policy and best practice within the interdisciplinary field of arts and health.

March 17, 2009 | Partnership Funds Arts Programs to Improve Health
The Johnson & Johnson/Society for the Arts in Healthcare partnership announced the 2009 award recipients of its annual grant program, designed to engage community healthcare workers, caregivers, families and artists in the practice of arts in healthcare to increase community support, involvement and leadership in the public health arena.

March 25, 2008 | Society for the Arts in Healthcare to Host 19th Annual International Conference in Philadelphia
The Society for the Arts in Healthcare will convene over 350 artists, architects, physicians, hospital administrators, nurses, researchers and others to explore strategies and best practices for incorporating the arts into healthcare settings at its annual conference in Philadelphia from April 16-19.

February 19, 2008 | Top Honors Awarded in 2008 International Healing Arts Competition 
Winners of the 2008 Blair L. Sadler International Healing Arts Awards will be recognized at the Society for the Arts in Healthcare's 19th annual conference on April 18, 2008, at the Doubletree Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

February 14, 2008 | Symposium on Art and Health Care to be Held at MoMA on March 7
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the Society for Arts in Healthcare are hosting a one-day symposium, "The Value and Importance of Art in Health Care," on March 7, 2008, at MoMA in New York City. The keynote address on "Creativity and the Brain" will be delivered by renowned neurologist and writer, Oliver Sacks, MD, author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Hat For His Wife and Other Clinical Tales and Musicophilia: Tales of Music and The Brain.

February 12, 2008 | Johnson & Johnson Grant Awardees
Grants were awarded to eight organizations in the U.S. and Canada to support new and innovative projects that will use art to advance healing and preventative health. Chosen from more than 130 proposals, the awards portray an imaginative array of art, drama, film, music and writing therapies.

June 4, 2007 | Anita Boles Named New Executive Director of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare
Anita Boles, a distinguished leader in the nonprofit and healthcare sectors, has been named Executive Director of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare. In her new position, Boles will head the nation’s largest multidisciplinary advocacy and membership organization dedicated to promoting the incorporation of the arts as an integral component of healthcare.

March 26, 2007 | Society for the Arts in Healthcare's 16th Annual Conference, A Composition in Creativity and Caring
The Society's 16th Annual International Conference to be held in Nashville, Tennessee, April 11-14, 2007 will convene over 350 artists, architects, designers, researchers and healthcare decision-makers from around the world.

March 7, 2007 | 2007 Blair L. Sadler International Healing Arts Competition Awardees Announced
The annual Blair L. Sadler International Healing Arts Competition, in connection with the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, will honor visionary leaders for their arts in healthcare projects that measurably impact the healthcare experience for patients, families and caregivers.

January 8, 2007 | Johnson & Johnson Grant Awardees
From theater programs aimed at improving student nurses’ attitudes towards geriatric patients to healing gardens created by HIV/AIDS positive patients in a treatment facility, the annual Johnson & Johnson/Society for the Arts in Healthcare grant awards seek to promote the use of the arts to enhance the healthcare experience for patients, their families and caregivers.

April 24, 2006 | Media Packet for SAH's 15th Annual Conference, vision + voice - Charting the Course of Arts, Health & Medicine
A complete packet of materials on the conference and the society

April 13, 2006 | Society for the Arts in Healthcare's 15th Annual Conference, vision + voice - Charting the Course of Arts, Health & Medicine
The Society's 15th Annual International Conference to be held in Chicago April 26-29, 2006 will showcase over 150 arts programs from around the world that flourish in hospitals, hospices, clinics, and nursing homes.

April 6, 2006 | 2006 Blair L. Sadler International Healing Arts Competition Awardees Announced
The annual Blair L. Sadler International Healing Arts Competition, in connection with the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, will honor 12 visionary leaders for their arts in healthcare projects that measurably impact the healthcare experience for patients, families and caregivers.

March 2, 2006 | NIA Adds Florida Sites to Arts Program Aimed at Debunking Negative Aging Stereotypes                                                                      
Gail Brooks, 74, created a Japanese floral arrangement to express her feelings about the Vital Visionaries, an arts-based program developed by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) that is now expanding into Florida.

February 22, 2006 | NIA Expands Arts Program Aimed at Debunking Negative Aging Stereotypes
The mingling of young and old is at the heart of the Vital Visionaries project, which is being expanded to help rout negative stereotypes of aging. The goal of the program is to improve future doctors’ attitudes towards older people and to awaken in older people awareness of their creative possibilities. It is managed for NIA by the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit corporation that promotes the incorporation of the arts in healthcare.

February 15, 2006 | First Arts in Health Care Symposium, Sotheby’s, February 17, 2006
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Sotheby’s, and the Society for the Arts in Healthcare host a one-day symposium, The Importance and Value of Art in Health Care Settings, on February 17^th, 2006, at Sotheby’s NYC.

January 11, 2006 | Johnson & Johnson Grant Awardees
The 2005/06 annual Johnson & Johnson/Society for the Arts in Healthcare partnership to promote arts and healing awarded a total of $325,000 to 33 selected organizations using art to help bridge the gap between illness and health. Chosen from 228 proposals, the arts projects serve patients, their families and caregivers, to advance healing and preventative health.

February 1, 2005 | Johnson & Johnson Grant Awardees
The 2004/05 annual Johnson & Johnson/Society for Arts in Healthcare Partnership awarded a total of $200,000 to twenty selected organizations using art to help bridge the gap between illness and health.

July 1, 2003 | NEA Symposium
The National Endowment for the Arts Issues a Report Calling for Greater Involvement of the Arts in Health Care
Arts Provide Proven Benefits to Patients and Care Providers

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Members In The News

July 2010 | The Creative Arts Therapies: Making Health Care Whole by Sharon Goodill, Minnesota Medicine

April, 2010 | 2010 Clinical Practice Intensive - University at Buffalo

April, 2010 | Unique Musical Instrument Providing Healing Sounds

January 10, 2010 | "Life is Still Beautiful!", Woman's World

October 14, 2009 | Art used to help young patients cope with hospitals, treatments by Joanna Broder

October 2, 2009 | Musicians on Call, NBC Miami Nightly News

September 28, 2009 | Nevada Medical Students Study More Than Science by Geralda Miller, Reno Gazette-Journal

August 28, 2009 | The healing, higher purpose of music can touch everyone by Deborah J. Botti, Niche News: The Senior Gazette

August 12, 2009 | Healing with Music, Fox News

2009 | An Introduction to the Arts-for-Health Movement, or How the Arts Sneaked in on the Medical Model by Janice Palmer, Community Arts Network Reading Room

2009 | Artistic Activities Help Patients Heal at South Seminole Hospital's Behavioral Health Department from in touch, a publication of Orlando Regional Healthcare

2009 | High Energy Drama Therapy by Terry O. Roen, Lifestyle Central Florida Publications

2009 | Whole Person Healthcare, Volumes 1,2, & 3 (2007) Book Review Reviewed by Richard Harvey, San Francisco State University, San Francisco

June 16, 2009 | Art Therapy by Julia Perla, Shore Style & Culture 

June 7, 2009 | Dance of a lifetime in a lifetime of dance by Warren Wolfe, Star Tribune

May 2009 | Art Arrives at 60 WSW from On the Move, camh

May 19, 2009 | New Sculpture Honors UM Transplant Team by Helen Nevius, The Ann Arbor Chronicle

May 1, 2009 | The Colors of Healing by Chris Gaerig, Healthcare Design

April, 2008 | Allan Cott and Lakeview Groups Learn Important Life Skills through Drumming by John Scalici and Amber Lott

March 25, 2009 | 'Beads of Courage' help kids cope with illness by Jonathan Saupe, Kold News 13