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I attended a healthcare conference in New York, where they were discussing and promoting the use of art as a gap between illness and health. I attended because I’m an artist and have witnessed first hand just how much art in necessary to enhance the healthcare experience for patients, their families and for caregivers. Organizations from the U.S. and Canada have projects to support and innovate artists to use art to advance healing and preventative health. There was an array of imaginative artists discussing just how theater, film, writing and music has given an un-quantifiable boost to patients that have benefited from all the art therapies. The conference also announced the recipients of its annual grant program. The structure of the grant has been revised to focus exclusively on organisations with evidence of prior success. They advised that the awardees of the grant will work to replicate their evidence-based models in underserved communities across the U.S. and Canada over a three year period. Then, a committee will convene at the end of the grant period to present the findings from the awardees programs; this will add to the growing base of research that shows that there are significant benefits when arts are incorporated into the healthcare system.

I was heading back to my room at one of the top New York City hotels, when it occurred to me just how I to could incorporate my art with inner-city homeless shelters which will involve not only the children, but the entire family structure. My healing art is about promoting balance and understanding how balance works and how to archive balance through art projects. When I got to my hotel room, I couldn’t sleep, I was so excited that awareness of just how important art is to our society is in every aspect of life, is becoming more and more prevalent. I immediately began to work on my proposal to become a recipient of that grant.

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