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Arts Prescriptions Have Come to Massachusetts


Art Heals! I’m excited to be among the first in the nation to make art prescription a reality, and am thrilled to partner with Art Pharmacy to bring arts prescriptions to Massachusetts.

This year, I wrote about the Arts on Prescription initiative in two articles for Art New England magazine.

The Healing Power of Art, Art New England, March/April 2024.

Transforming Health Through the Power of Art, Art New England, January/February 2024.

And in case you missed it, there was great coverage about the roll-out on WBUR and WCVB, linked below.

https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2024/07/10/art-pharmacy-health-outcomes-massachusetts

https://www.wcvb.com/article/massachusetts-social-prescribing-mass-general-brigham/61572620

To learn more about art pharmacy follow them on Instagram and LinkedIn and visit their web site!

Also, I will be returning to the Healing Garden in September to do another Wayfinding through Cancer Workshop, and to Emerson Health on a date TBD in the fall! Keep posted for more information and additional events.

Google: Bringing News Back to Life

In a recent post on The Huffington Post, blogger Kety Esquivel discusses what she describes as the converging worlds of new media/social media/journalism/communications/marketing. As I read her post I was reminded how in the past week on every check-out line I was on I saw the covers of two high-profile magazines which epitomized convergence. The Atlantic Monthly’s cover had the word “Google” in a large font while Time magazine was sporting the word, “FaceBook”.

In a recent post on The Huffington Post, blogger Kety Esquivel discusses what she describes as the converging worlds of new media/social media/journalism/communications/marketing. As I read her post I was reminded how in the past week on every check-out line I was on I saw the covers of two high-profile magazines which epitomized convergence. The Atlantic Monthly’s cover had the word “Google” in a large font while Time magazine was sporting the word, “FaceBook”.

The Atlantic Monthly’s story “How to Save the News” by James Fallows, describes the ways in which Google is trying to “bring the news business back to life.” Fallows writes that Google now considers journalism’s survival crucial to its own prospects. Two important developments for Google were Google News, “a kind of air-traffic-control center for the movement of stories across the world’s media, in real time and Google Alerts, a way to stay on top of the topics important to you.

Fallows says, “But all of their [Google’s] plans for reinventing a business model for journalism involve attracting money to the Web-based news sites now available on computers, and to the portable information streams that will flow to whatever devices evolve from today’s smart phones, iPods and iPads, Nooks and Kindles, and mobile devices of any other sort.”

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