The Foundation for Art & Healing raises awareness of national health issues, most notably the loneliness epidemic. In particular, The Foundation promotes  creative expression as a path for individuals and communities to improve health and wellbeing.

Raising awareness of urgent health issues and advocating for creative expression as a solution is critical to fulfilling The Foundation for Art & Healing’s mission. On this page, you’ll find recent media placements highlighting our efforts to create healthier, happier, and more connected communities through creative art expression.

• • Alleviating Loneliness in Older Adults Through Creative Expression
  • Creativity, Community and Connection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • 2024 Schaalman Senior Voices Thought Leader Lecture: From Isolation to Inspiration
    
  • Inside Higher Ed – All Eyes on Loneliness
    
  • Chronicle Festival: The Students of 2035 – Day 1

• • Loneliness Poses a Critical Barrier to Chronic Care Management
  • How creative expression helps with health
  • Want to be less lonely? Here are five tips.
  • Loneliness epidemic: How potluck dinners can build connections
  • The importance of connections: Ways to live a longer, healthier life
  • The connection correction: How to stop loneliness shopping
  • Easing Holiday Isolation
  • It’s time we rethink how to solve loneliness
  • The Whole Student: The Arts Can Make Us Less Lonely
  • Reunions Panels Shine a Spotlight on Mental Health
    
  • Making Diabetes Unlonely
  • Actor/Director Steve Buscemi to Launch the 8th Season of Project UnLonely Films
  • American Society on Aging – Alleviating Loneliness in Older Adults Through Creative Expression
  • WNYC – Tips for Facing Loneliness
  • AP – When Loneliness is an Epidemic, Here’s How to Find Joy on Valentine’s Day
  • The Good Men Project – What Do We Do With Our Loneliness?
  • Talkzone – The Loneliness Epidemic & Why Women’s Health Issues Are Often Misdiagnosed
  • Bowdoin – Becoming “UnLonely” Through Art
  • WHYY – How the Arts Can Be an Antidote to Loneliness
  • NPR – 9 ways to get healthier in 2024 without trying very hard
  • KFI AM 640 – Loneliness Is Killing Us
  • Business Insider – What loneliness does to your body and brain
  • Radio New Zealand – ‘Loneliness is one of the most human of feelings’
  • Life Kit – How to Combat Loneliness
  • Next Big Idea Club – 5 Steps Towards Comfort and Connection in a Lonely World
  • Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins – Exploring seasonal affective disorder and loneliness around the holidays
  • Everyone Comes From Somewhere – Loneliness is a Signal for Connection: Dr. Jeremy Nobel
  • CBC – Loneliness is as bad for you as smoking, research shows. But the stigma stops people getting help
  • MaineBiz – GrowSmart Summit: Investment in community space might improve public health
  • Portland Press Herald – Curtis Memorial Library hosts author talk on community and connection
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health – There are ways to fight loneliness, says expert
  • Milken Institute – Mending the Social Fabric of Our Nation: The Loneliness Epidemic among Older Adults
  • National Endowment for the Arts – Community vs. Commodity: Residual Benefits from Purchasing Arts Experiences
  • The Week – 5 comforting books about loneliness and solitude
  • KERA Think – Feeling lonely? It’s time to get creative
  • News Center Maine – Grow Smart Maine annual summit brings municipal leaders together to invest in Maine communities
  • Next Avenue – We Don’t Need to Cure Loneliness
  • Harvard Public Health – How to get unlonely
  • Milken Institute – Creativity and the Arts: A Not-So-New Way to Address Loneliness
  • Portland Press Herald – Just a Little Old: Easing loneliness through creative expression
  • Well Said With Dr. Ira Nash – Loneliness at Work
  • UsAgainstAlzheimers BrainStorm Podcast – Dr. Jeremy Nobel – Loneliness and Alzheimer’s
  • Verywell Mind – We All Get Lonely Sometimes—What to Do on the Days You Feel Totally Alone
  • Next Avenue – A Commitment to Films That Make You Think
  • Well Said With Dr. Ira Nash – Loneliness and CVD
  • Harvard Public Health – Experts Weigh in on Surgeon General’s Fight Against Loneliness
  • Bellevue Literary Review – (Serious) Fun with the UnLonely Film Festival
  • HealthyWomen – HealthyWomen Annual Event Speaker: Jeremy Nobel, M.D., M.P.H.
  • Disastershock Reporter’s Notebook – Episode 4: Project UnLonely – The Foundation for Art & Healing
  • Katie Couric Media – In Such a Connected World, Why Are We Lonelier Than Ever?
  • Next Avenue – How to Be Less Lonely This Holiday Season
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health – Connecting with Color
  • Boston Magazine – The Death of the Office Friendship
  • Harvard Magazine – The Loneliness Pandemic
  • Psychology Today – Navigate Holiday Loneliness with Creativity and Connection
  • Harvard Medical School Primary Care Review – The COVID-19 Pandemic: Now is the Time for Primary Care to Address Loneliness
  • NPR – Too Much Alone Time? Tips To Connect And Find Joy While Social Distancing
  • U.S. News & World Report – The Loneliness Effect
  • The Boston Globe – Goodbye Loneliness. Hello, Happiness — A Prescription for Healthier Lives.

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