All about the Arizona Community NeuroArts Coalition
Welcome to the Arizona Community NeuroArts Coalition, part of a growing national movement born out of the NeuroArts Blueprint: Advancing the Science of Arts, Health and Wellbeing initiative co-led by the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University and the Aspen Institute.
Around the country, local coalitions are harnessing arts, outdoors, and aesthetic experiences to improve health, wellbeing, social cohesion, and community resilience.
What is neuroarts?
The emerging field exposes mechanisms through which art impacts our brains, biology, and behavior, driving us towards health and well-being. It’s a springboard for arts-based interventions and innovative programs that can be practiced in clinics, homes, workplaces, and communities—all in service to individual and collective well-being.
Arizona partners making it happen
The NeuroArts Blueprint launched in 2019 provides the roadmap for the
In Arizona, several groups are already working to build up and strengthen the state’s neuroarts ecosystem as members of the Arizona Community NeuroArts Coalition.:
Our shared vision is that the health and well-being of Arizona’s diverse communities benefit from the essential integration of arts, culture and aesthetics in everyday life. We will build an Arizona coalition that mirrors the national framework, but rooted locally and anchored in community strengths.
Founded in 1965 to improve the quality of life in Arizona to benefit future generations.
Virgina G. Piper Charitable Trust
Supporting organizations that enrich health, well-being and opportunity for the people of Maricopa County.
Connecting, supporting and informing efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in Arizona.
Arizona Commission on the Arts
Celebrating cultural traditions, inspiring creativity, growing local economies, and enhancing Arizonans’ quality of life.
Why Arizona, why now?
Health & well-being
Research and practice in the neuroarts field show that artistic and aesthetic experiences can change the brain, body, and behavior in measurable ways—supporting prevention, recovery and resilience in physical and mental health.
By embedding arts-in-health strategies into community settings in Arizona, we can enhance wellness, reduce burden on our health care systems, and prevent escalation of chronic conditions.
A strategic moment for Arizona
With a growing bioscience ecosystem, philanthropic leadership, and a rising awareness of arts-health intersections, Arizona has the momentum to become a hub for neuroarts practice and research. By aligning art, science, health, and community action, we can set the stage for scaled programs, and measurable outcomes.
Economic & community opportunity
Embedding neuroarts programs creates new pathways for creative jobs, health-innovation jobs, community-based workforce development, and for leveraging arts assets into health-service models.
Get involved, stay informed
We invite community organizations, health systems, cultural institutions, researchers, artists, funders, educators and civic leaders in Arizona to join this coalition-building journey.
We are excited to bring a community neuroarts coalition to Arizona—and look forward to building healthier, more creative, more resilient communities together.
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