a2ru’s Maryrose Flanigan Writes Guest Blog Post for Neuroarts Resource Center
Jun 25, 2025
a2ru Executive Director Maryrose Flanigan has contributed a guest blog post about a2ru’s arts in health work to the Neuroarts Resource Center, a new website designed to promote the growing field of neuroarts by serving as a central repository for a wide range of resources from across disciplines and around the globe. The NeuroArts Resource Center is an initiative of the NeuroArts Blueprint, a partnership between the Aspen Institute and Johns Hopkins University.
As Flanigan writes in her post, “Neuroarts is a crossover field in more ways than one. It not only bridges several disciplines, but it also reaches across the borders of different audiences and addresses the full spectrum of human experience. Arts, health, technology, and science affect our daily lives in a fusion of multi-disciplinary inputs. It is this blending of approaches that helps us stay well, recover from illness, understand our thinking, and express our humanity; so interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches enable us to rise to challenges ranging from the personal to the societal.” She then outlines the various interventions a2ru has made within arts in health throughout its history, including convenings, working groups, and our Award for Excellence in Arts in Health Education, and highlights current and future opportunities for researchers to present and publish their work.
Read Flanigan’s full post by clicking below:
Image above: Students completing a wellness-inspired project at the 2025 Emerging Creatives Student Summit. (Wes McRae)