This systematic review aimed to address the primary question: What are the subjective wellbeing outcomes of engaging with (taking part in, performing, viewing) visual arts for ‘working-age’ adults (15-64 years) with diagnosed mental health conditions?; and a related secondary question: What are the processes by which the subjective wellbeing outcomes are achieved?
Farther, Faster, Together: How Arts and Culture Can Accelerate Environmental Progress
The goal of this field scan is to understand and frame how place-based arts and cultural interventions, or “creative placemaking,” can advance sustainability outcomes in the context of community development.
Art for Everyone: Approaches to Inclusive Practice
This publication is an outcome of the Connecting the Dots Project, delivered by Arts Access Victoria with the support of Creative Victoria and the Department of Health and Human Services. The project aims to address barriers to cultural participation by people with disability and mental health issues and who are Deaf.
The art of Head Start: Intensive arts integration associated with advantage in school readiness for economically disadvantaged children
The present study examined the impact of intensive arts integration on school readiness for economically disadvantaged children attending Head Start preschool. Participants were 265 children, ages 3-5 years.
What Are the Paradigm Shifts Necessary for the Arts Sector to Nurture Thriving Institutions of Color?
Is the desire for organizations to “maintain [their]
own viability” or be “able to be supported with the basic necessities or sufficient funds”?
Yancey Consulting found that sustainability is the start but not the end. More viable operating conditions are irrefutably desired, but organizations ultimately aspire to thrive
[“flourish,” “prosper,” and “grow vigorously”].
So, for the context of this report, our findings and analyses for moving toward sustainability are intended as critical steps in creating a more equitable environment for historically disinvested arts and culture organizations to thrive.
The Arts and Dropout Prevention: The Power of Art to Engage
The mission of the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network (NDPC/N) is to increase high school graduation rates and reduce school dropout rates through research, research dissemination, and the provision of evidence-based solutions. It accomplishes these goals by serving as a clearinghouse and network for evidence-based information that supports dropout
prevention. The NDPC/N provides technical assistance and other professional assistance to school districts in the United States, all in support of dropout prevention. Fifteen effective strategies (National Dropout Prevention Center/Network, n.d.) guide the work of the NDPC/N. This paper touches on several strategies as they relate to the arts and dropout prevention. The topics in this paper include (a) arts and dropout prevention, (b) arts and student engagement, and (c) identifying and developing career pathways in the arts.
