Arts and Healing Podcast

Arts and Healing Network•www.artheals.org

A podcast for anyone who wants to learn more about how creativity can be a catalyst for positive change. It features interviews with artists and organizations who are using art to heal themselves, their community, and the planet. This podcast is a project of the Arts and Healing Network, an online resource at www.artheals.org. It is hosted by Britt Bravo.

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Sing Your Part: An Interview with Rachel Bagby

Since 1985, Rachel Bagby has pioneered vibralingual practices that help people form vocal communities for ecological and social healing. A vocal artist, writer, composer, teacher and founder of Choral Earth, Rachel is internationally recognized for inspiring multiple generations to bring their voices to life. The Arts & Healing Network is very pleased to announce that Rachel is also the 2008 recipient of the AHN Award which is given annually to an artist who is truly making a difference in t...

Feb 29, 2008•25 min

Making Environmental and Public Art: An Interview with Susan Leibovitz Steinman

Susan Leibovitz Steinman salvages materials directly from community waste streams to construct public art installations that connect common daily experiences to broader social issues. Projects include conceptual sculpture gardens that meld art, ecology and community action. She also co-founded the Women Environmental Artists Directory . You can learn more about Susan's work on her web site, steinmanstudio.com...

Jan 10, 2008•30 min

Poetry and Healing: An Interview with John Fox of the Institute for Poetic Medicine

John Fox , Certified Poetry Therapist, is a poet and author of Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity through Poem-Making and Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making . He teaches regularly at the collegiate and post graduate level as an adjunct faculty member of the California Institute of Integral Studies , John F. Kennedy University , Institute of Transpersonal Psychology , the University of California, Santa Cruz and Holy Names University . His work reaches...

Nov 02, 2007•27 min

Interview with SARK!

SARK is an author, artist and teacher on the subject of creativity who was featured on the PBS series Women of Wisdom and Power. She practices what she teaches and lives in a Magic Cottage in San Francisco. She has written many books including Make Your Creative Dreams REAL, Prosperity Pie, Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed and A Creative Companion. You can visit her website at www.planetsark.com .

Sep 29, 2007•23 min

Interview with Sharon Siskin

Sharon Siskin has an extensive national exhibition record, showing her work in museums, galleries and public sites for more than 27 years. She is the recipient of awards and grants that include a Visual Arts Fellowship from the California Arts Council in 2003, the 2001 Potrero Nuevo Prize, Noetic Arts Program Community Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission Market Street Art in Transit Commission and 12 California Arts Council Artist in Residence Grants for community-based public art projects in t...

Aug 29, 2007•27 min

Interviews with 10 Arts and Healing Award Winners

2007 marks the tenth anniversary of the Arts and Healing Network Award. Each year the Arts and Healing Network honors a healing artist who is truly making a difference in the world with an award of $10,000. The Network offers this award as a surprise gift. There is no application. Our hope is that this award will offer the recipient inspiration and support to continue and expand their outstanding work. To celebrate the award's anniversary, we asked each of the award winners to tell us a little b...

Jun 06, 2007•56 min

Interview with Alli Chagi-Starr of Art in Action

Alli is a Co-Founder and the Development & Events Director of Art in Action, Youth Leadership Training . She conducts the dance, theater, and anti-oppression workshops at the Art in Action camps. She is also the Art and Media Director for Reclaim the Future at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland. Alli is a co-founder of Dancers Without Borders, Another World in Possible Road Shows, and the twelve-year-old Radical Performance Fest. She also co-founded Art and Revolution, a natio...

Apr 26, 2007•26 min

Interview with Mary Daniel Hobson, Director of the Arts and Healing Network

Mary Daniel Hobson is the Director of the Arts and Healing Network . At the age of 14, she became captivated by photography and has been pursuing it ever since. Trained as an art historian, her work draws deep inspiration from Surrealism, in particular the work of Dora Maar. Whether creating intimate collages or bottling photographs, her mixed media photography explores inner geography and layered experience. Her work has been widely exhibited and is in collections such as the San Francisco Muse...

Apr 26, 2007•14 min

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