Mother Nature: ART IS LIFE

©Photograph by Shelita Birchett Benash, “Art is Life”

As an interdisciplinary artist-social work practitioner-arts-based community-engaged researcher, I’m so inspired by arts in behavioral & social science findings that are revealing the evidence that we artist have always known: that art is life.

These are exciting times. I am thrilled to see the arts seriously merging with social science, humanities, and health as the arts and sciences were never meant to be separated from the very beginning in history.

Check out the, “The Impact of Arts and Cultural Engagement Population Health: Findings from Major Cohort Studies in the UK and USA, 2017-2022.” Click the link below to see the report. Congratulations to the Social Biobehavioral Research Group!

SBRG offering a one-week Arts Health Research Intensive in May 2024, in Suffolk, UK. I’m going!