167: Arts ON Prescription: Radical Art & Social Change in Healthcare

167: Arts ON Prescription: Radical Art & Social Change in Healthcare

From ART IS CHANGE: Strategies & Skills for Activist Artists & Cultural Organizers by Bill Cleveland

March 4, 2026 · 1h 5m · Episode 167

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This episode explores the concept of arts-based treatments in healthcare, featuring insights from Dr. Tasha Golden.

Arts On Prescription: What if your doctor prescribed an arts-based treatment for what ails you and your health insurance paid for it. YEAH RIGHT! Actually, Yeah, right, and REALLY! In this episode we learn all about it in Arts on Prescription: A Field Guide for U. S. Communities BIO's Dr. Tasha Golden directs research for the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins Medicine. As a national leader in arts + public health, Dr. Golden studies the impacts of arts & culture, music, aesthetics, and social norms on well-being, health research, and professional practice. She has authored many publications related to arts and health, served as an advisor on several national health initiatives, and is adjunct faculty for the University of Florida’s Center for Arts in Medicine. In addition to her research, Golden is a career artist and entrepreneur. As singer-songwriter for the critically acclaimed band Ellery , she toured full-time in the U.S. and abroad, and her songs appear in feature films and TV dramas (ABC, SHOWTIME, FOX, NETFLIX, etc). She is also a published poet and has taught university courses in public health as well as in writing, rhetoric, and literature. Holding a…

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