Several important books in recent years have examined the neuroscience of single art forms, including Zeki’s Inner Vision [1], Livingstone’s Vision and Art [2], and Peretz and Zatorre’s anthology The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music [3]. Dahlia Zaidel’s recent book is an attempt to look beyond single art forms and develop a broader and more integrative view of the arts and of human creativity. T...

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2016 vol. 40 no. 4 © 2016 Public Health Association of Australia Following the implementation of the World Health Organization’s Health for All strategy, the ‘Arts and Health’ movement started to gain momentum in Australia as a means of improving public health, promoting social inclusion and reducing health inequalities.1,2 The field of arts a...

Background: Arts in medicine programs have significant impacts on patients and staff in long-term care environments, but the literature lacks evidence of effectiveness on hospital units with shorter average lengths of stay. Methods: The qualitative study used individual structured interviews to assess the impacts of arts programming on job satisfaction, stress, unit culture, support, quality of...

(L'éducation artistique et culturelle à l'école en Europe) and German (Kunst-und Kulturerziehung an den Schulen in Europa). The contents of this publication may be reproduced in part, except for commercial purposes, provided the extract is preceded b y a reference to 'Eurydice network', followed by the date of publication of the document. PREFACE The role of arts education in forming the compet...

A multidisciplinary dance and theatre arts program geared for high school-aged youth can result in both short-term and the long-term outcomes for its students if it seeks to offer a life-changing peak experience as part of the arts training and performance process. By integrating a combination of dance, movement, theater, music, creative and reflective writing, as well as identity exploration a...

Creativity is essential for solving problems in the workplace, natural environment, and everyday life, necessitating that creativity be nurtured in schools. Identification of factors that intrinsically motivate students to learn difficult or initially unappealing content is also important. This project, in which 24 racially diverse fifth grade girls created dioramas of the lives of diverse succ...

Islamic arts are often identified by their abstract compositions based on geometric principles and spiritual concepts. Using artworks from different eras, this paper highlights the presence of a particular model of thought in Islamic arts in which the hierarchy of perspectival vision is abolished. The main argument is based on the ability of some artworks to be looked at from any angle while ma...

In 2009 SIAP made a site visit to the Tucson Pima Arts Council (TPAC) to collaborate on a plan to document TPAC’s impact on civic engagement in Tucson and Pima County. The report begins with a review of the policy context in which the project was undertaken, including the findings of the Pima Cultural Plan. This is followed by a discussion of the proposed strategy and specific recommendations f...