Recently I came across two different sites that had to do with partnerships in the arts and health care. I have a close friend who is an art therapist and has worked in that capacity within the public schools and now with the Leepa Ratner Museum. The data for positive effect on health and the arts is tremendous. As artists we know how the arts benefit us personally by self expression, a meditative state and connecting with others. The you tube site I will provide below is used by the Mississippi State Mental Hospital in a healing program with patients. Just recently, my hometown of Tampa, Florida, recently published a health care and arts partnership program. Where ever you live, where ever you practice art, or wherever you take art classes consider bonding the arts with healing for others!
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