ArtsRx

Ferol was a founding board member of the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) and was an editor and contributing author to the Core Curriculum for Arts in Health Professionals. Ferol’s interest in curriculum design led her to co-develop the Undergraduate Certificate in Music in Medicine at UF. Ferol’s research interests include arts in health pedagogy, curriculum design, and assessment.

To learn more about Ferol: https://arts.ufl.edu/directory/profile/37123

Lisa Erdman, MFA, DA (Doctor of Arts)  is an artist, educator, and researcher. She has taught art and design at the university level in the United States and in Finland.  More recently,  Dr. Erdman works medical students within health humanities courses at Penn State College of Medicine. Her performances and media art explore the politics of medicine and cultural identity. Dr. Erdman is interested in examining the mechanisms that shape personal identity and one’s relationship to medical authority.

Retired Pittsburgh Symphony violist Penny Brill is part of the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) initiative to professionalize artists in healthcare who currently have no healthcare credentials. Her nonprofit Musicians as a Community Resource (MUSACOR) currently supports a music therapist providing sessions at a shelter for unaccompanied minors and yoga with live musicians at several locations.

Raquel Chapin Stephenson, PhD, ATR-BC, LCAT, is a Professor of Art Therapy and Faculty Fellow in the Institute for the Arts in Health at Lesley University. She recently published Art Therapy and Creative Aging: Reclaiming Elderhood, Health and Wellbeing.

Tamara Underiner is associate dean for professional development and engagement in Arizona State University’s Graduate College, and associate professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre, where she serves as founding director of the Ph.D. program in Theatre and Performance of the Americas. She also convenes Creative Health Collaborations, a university-wide effort to integrate arts, humanities and design approaches in health research, education, practice and policy. With Dr. David W. Coon, she co-directs a new NEA-sponsored Research Lab studying the health-supporting role of the arts in different types of caregiving contexts and via a range of participatory arts experiences involving both caregivers and their loved ones.

Ariadne was awarded the 2023 Teaching Artist Guild (T.A.G.) Distinguished Service Award. Director of Creative Care, L.L.C., Ari initiated and teaches the arts in health curriculum within the College of Fine Arts at the University of South Dakota; served as a founding board member and chairperson of NOAH’s Professionalization Committee; works as arts in health consultant for Sanford Health and is an active roster artist with the South Dakota Arts Council’s Artists in the Schools and Communities Program.

For current Arts in Health projects see https://creativecarellc.com/

Maryrose Flanigan is the executive director of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), where she oversees a network of universities which are committed to advancing arts-based and interdisciplinary research, practice, and teaching in higher education. She serves on a presidential advisory group for the arts initiative at a2ru’s headquarters at the University of Michigan and is part of the advisory cohort for the Imagining America’s Leading and Learning Initiative: Shifting Institutional Culture to Fortify Public Scholarship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Prior to joining the staff at a2ru, she served in various roles at the National Endowment for the Arts: as division coordinator for Literature and Arts Education, as a specialist for the creative writing and translation fellowships; and served as program manager for national programs Poetry Out Loud and the NEA Big Read. She has also served as associate editor for Office of Communications and Public Affairs (OCPA) at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U); and associate director for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). Maryrose has an M.F.A. in poetry from American University.