Opening Reception | Healing Arts Houston

5216 Montrose Blvd.,Houston TX 77006

19 January, 2022

Description

A special opening reception hosted by CAMH celebrating Healing Arts’ city-wide program promoting the intersection of arts and health. Join us as we kick off exciting and necessary conversations around medicine and the arts. The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse—recently named exhibition of the year by The New York Times and Los Angeles Times—will be on view and available to tour with a member of our esteemed Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Team. At 7PM, there will be welcoming remarks by CULTURUNNERS Director and Healing Arts Co-Founder Stephen Stapleton and CAMH Executive Director Hesse McGraw. Additionally, there will be a special announcement unveiling the Houston recipient of The Future is Unwritten Artist Response Fund Grant. RSVPs encouraged. About Healing Arts Houston Healing Arts Houston brings together leaders from across culture, policy, research, and healthcare to act on the evidence base for the health benefits of the arts. As the world emerges from the greatest health crisis in a generation, we affirm what artists have always known and research is now proving—that the arts can heal. The program is centered around a three-day international conference—‘Innovations in Arts and Health’—taking place at the University of Houston between January 20–22. Healing Arts Houston is co-produced by the University of Houston and CULTURUNNERS in partnership with a coalition of partners, including the Houston Methodist, Houston Arts Alliance, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), Blaffer Art Museum, Paper City, Barbara Davis Gallery, Fresh Arts, Arts & Health @ NYU, and the Open Mind Project. About The Future is Unwritten Healing Arts Initiative As the world emerges from the greatest health challenge to the human race in a century, Healing Arts is a cultural call-to-action for improved physical, mental and social health. The initiative incorporates a series of city activations exploring the role of the arts as a new frontier and partner in health, care and wellbeing, an international media campaign, and ongoing charity auctions to support the WHO’s arts and mental health response to COVID-19 and artist-led projects on the front-line of the pandemic. Healing Arts is produced by CULTURUNNERS in collaboration with Arts & Health @ NYU and under the auspices of the World Health Organization’s Arts and Health Program. The initiative was launched in 2020 as part of the United Nations’ 75th Anniversary Programme (UN75) and Decade of Action. Learn more about the initiative here. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is a non-collecting institution dedicated to presenting the best and most exciting international, national, and regional art. Through dynamic exhibitions accompanied by scholarly publications and accessible educational programs, the Museum reaches out to local, regional, national, and international audiences of various ages. CAMH is a nonprofit organization that relies on a variety of funding sources, including individual, government, and corporate, for its activities.