2019 PROGRESS REPORT International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM Lab) is a FROM THE EXECUTIVE multidisciplinary research-to-practice initiative from the Brain Science Institute at Johns Hopkins DIRECTOR University that is accelerating the field of neuroaesthetics in , wellbeing, and . Formally established in 2016, IAM Lab traces Dear Friends, its roots to the seminal 2010 Science of the Arts We were finalizing this report just launch of our Dialog Series, and the early seeds of conference hosted by the Brain Science Institute. as the COVID-19 pandemic turned our multi-year NeuroArts Blueprint in collaboration our world upside down. Now, with the Aspen Institute. 2019 seems like a lifetime ago, This report is dedicated to the late John Paul Today, in the wake of the pandemic and growing but the work of IAM Lab has never social justice movement, we’ve shifted our efforts Eberhard, our advisor and friend. been more relevant. In this public to be responsive to the immediate needs of our health crisis, people are gravitating to the arts in community. IAM Lab recently launched a field guide every form to cope and connect. And now research is IAM Lab is working to build the field of applied THE ARTS & AESTHETIC EXPERIENCES to the neuroarts during COVID-19, our ongoing proving what we’ve always known intuitively—the arts neuroaesthetics (neuroarts as shorthand). We series of art ideas to support public health and simple are essential to our health and happiness. define applied neuroaesthetics as the scientific explanations of the science behind them. study of how the brain and body respond to Scientific knowledge about how the arts can be Alongside this dedicated response, we will continue the arts and aesthetic experiences to improve used to promote health, wellbeing, and learning is to advance our strategic priorities in translational biological, psychological, social/cultural or accumulating rapidly. This is a time of radical possibili- research, education and outreach, and community spiritual outcomes for individuals or populations. ties, and the potential applications of that knowledge VISUAL ARTS LITERARY ARTS PERFORMING building in 2020 and beyond. There’s much work to Applied neuroaesthetics includes and extends are countless. A robust body of evidence is emerging ARTS do to elevate the role of the arts in health, wellbeing, beyond empirical aesthetics. that demonstrates that arts of all kinds can improve and learning. We are committed to establishing IAM mobility, memory, and speech; relieve pain and the Lab as a hub for this vibrant community by sharing When we use the term “the arts and aesthetic after-effects of trauma; enhance mental health and what we are learning and continually lifting up the experiences,” we acknowledge the full spectrum learning outcomes; build resilience and prevent work of others. of sensory, perceptual, or expressive experiences, disease; and so much more. Beyond their value for including Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Performing individuals, we see tremendous potential for arts We are excited to do this work as the International Arts, Music, Dance & Movement, Media Arts, MUSIC DANCE & MEDIA ARTS interventions to engage stakeholders collectively in Arts + Mind Lab Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics Traditional Handcrafts, Architecture & Design, MOVEMENT pursuit of more equitable and resilient communities. at the Brain Science Institute at the Johns Hopkins Natural Environments, and Cultural Experiences. School of Medicine. Hopkins has always been In service of that value and potential, IAM Lab a pioneer of new scientific enterprises, and we continued its work in 2019 to help coalesce the field are proud to be part of this tradition through our of neuroaesthetics—particularly applied neuroaes- transdisciplinary research and field-building. thetics—by beginning to create shared language and a consensus framework for the field through Thank you for your partnership and support in TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE NATURAL new partnerships across sectors. At its core, IAM Lab 2019. We will get through this unprecedented time HANDCRAFTS & DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS is a collaboration. Our team partners with talented together and look forward to continuing this vital researchers, clinicians, artists, and thinkers from work in 2020. around the world to design, fund, and implement Be safe and stay well, research. Highlights from 2019 include our partnership with Google on a demonstration project in Milan, new Art by Kieu Thi Kim Cuong, Sergey Demushkin, CULTURAL Flatart, Andrejs Kirma, Mat fine, Made by Made, research projects in music and digital media, the Susan Magsamen, EXPERIENCES Monkik, Parkjisun, Priyanka Executive Director, IAM Lab

2019 PROGRESS REPORT • From the Executive Director 3 TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH

developed Impact Thinking, Using this approach as an organizing mechanism, we IAM Lab a translational research are facilitating enhanced collaboration and standard- approach that applies rigorous, evidence-based ization among researchers and practitioners and research methods to arts, architecture, and music inter- building a pipeline of evidence for applied neuroaes- ventions. A nine-step model, Impact Thinking begins thetics. Dr. Marilyn Albert, Professor of Neurology by engaging a broad and multi-disciplinary team of at JHU and IAM Lab Scientific Director, provides experts to identify a problem and review existing guidance across IAM Lab’s research portfolio along research and practice models to inform a hypothesized with our newly formed scientific advisory board of solution. After designing and conducting a study, engag- distinguished experts. We are pleased to announce ing a range of research methodologies, the process the addition of Dr. Tasha Golden to our team as continues with analysis, dissemination, scaling, and Senior Arts in Health Research Scientist. Dr. Golden impact evaluation strategies. is a public health researcher who oversees IAM Lab’s research projects. Under her leadership and in partnership with many outstanding researchers, our Impact Thinking portfolio is growing and diversifying.

Impact Thinking A translational research approach to enhance human potential in health, wellbeing, and learning through the arts

3 HYPOTHESIS 2 COLLABORATIVE DISCOVERY

EVALUATION 9

4 RESEARCH DESIGN

1 PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

5 RESEARCH DISSEMINATION 8 IMPLEMENTATION & SCALING

6 ANALYSIS 7 REFINE–RETEST– RECOMMEND

4 2019 PROGRESS REPORT • Translational Research 5 MUSIC TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH TRANSLATIONAL

GUITAR FOR PARKINSON’S MUSIC AND THE BRAIN SOUND RESONANCE DISEASE (GUITAR PD) Music and the Brain is a groundbreaking think tank In partnership with the Polytechnic Institute of Milan, In collaboration with IAM Lab, the Johns Hopkins envisioned by One Mind President Brandon Staglin and this pilot study uses perceived measures (Geneva Center for Music and Medicine conducted a pioneer­ established as part of the organization’s Applications Emotional Music Scales-9) and biological measures ing­ pilot study of the benefits of guitar lessons for Serious Psychiatric Recovery (ASPIRe) initiative. (body temperature, heart rate variability, and skin for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Led by Co-chaired by Susan Magsamen and Dr. Eric Nestler, conductance) to determine the effects of live and Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Alexander Pantelyat, M.D., Music and the Brain draws upon numerous recorded sacred music on listeners. Led by Dr. Augusto M.D., and Dr. Serap Bastepe-Gray, M.D., Guitar PD studies demonstrating that performing or listening to Sarti, researchers found large variability between builds on a base of research on music therapy for music can positively affect mental health. Music and the participants’ emotional responses to different pieces Parkinson’s disease that includes listening to music, Brain expands and complements NIH’s Sound Health of music. The study continues to examine the differ- singing, dancing. and playing instruments, but it initiative by consolidating and advancing the evidence ences between responses to live and recorded music. breaks new ground by using guitar lessons as an related to music’s role in the prevention and treatment intervention for PD. The study is complete, and the of severe mental illness. Led by IAM Lab’s Dr. Tasha manuscript is being prepared for submission to an Golden, the project’s first deliverable is a broad inter­ academic journal. national scoping review of the literature regarding uses of music in the treatment of serious mental illness, “Our vision for the future is that music teachers and including schizophrenia, major depressive disorder music therapists across the world will be trained and (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), bipolar certified in a standardized therapeutic guitar lesson disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), to program for PD patients,” Pantelyat said. “This certi- inform the development of pilot studies of the same. fication would include research-based methods for applying guitar technique therapeutically, training on the challenges this population faces, and techniques to effectively work with those challenges. Our hope is that this study, in combination with future study find- ings, will help shape and spur program development.” PHOTO BY DALE KEIGER DALE BY PHOTO

6 2019 PROGRESS REPORT • Translational Research 7 ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH TRANSLATIONAL

KENNEDY KRIEGER CHILD FRIENDLY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENTS SENSORY CARE ROOM DIGITAL MEDIA To expand and improve the use of art and aesthetics This partnership with the Kennedy Krieger Institute and in the service of patients, families, and staff, IAM Lab Reddymade Architecture brings together a variety of evaluated the site plan of the Johns Hopkins Charlotte VIRTUAL REALITY FOR medical and health professionals and key stakeholders R. Bloomberg Children’s Center and provided including neurologists, neuropsychologists, physical research-based recommendations. Key elements CREATIVE ARTS THERAPY therapists, child life experts, and parents to build a included improvements to the natural environment, better hospital room for children who are waking up color washes, cohesive visual themes, room for Working together with Drexel University’s Dr. Girija from a coma. A primary goal is to promote regular common area interaction, and improved wayfinding. Kaimal and Dr. Arun Ramakrishnan, this project exam- sleep /wake cycles by regulating light and sounds and ines whether art therapy can be integrated into virtual minimizing background noise and other disruptions. reality-based expression to enhance patient care. This project also explores the role of personalized Researchers are using Google Tilt Brush technology to sensory inputs such as visual projections, scents, and allow patients to paint in a 3-D virtual space. Research sounds in reducing patient agitation. will measure reward perception using functional near-infrared spectroscopy, and self-perceptions of mood, stress, anxiety, and self-efficacy. PHOTOS BY JOHN DEAN, KEITH WELLER BY PHOTOS

8 2019 PROGRESS REPORT • Translational Research 9 MULTIPLE ARTFORMS TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH TRANSLATIONAL

PHOTO BY MITRO HOOD TAILORED ACTIVITY VETARTSPAN PROGRAM (TAP) LITERATURE As a Creative Forces Community Connections demon- Through a collaboration with the Hopkins ElderPlus stration site, the Straz Center for Performing Arts in Program and Drexel University, the Tailored Activity Tampa, Florida designed and implemented a suite Program (TAP) allows patients with dementia to of arts programming to increase community-based One Book also provides students with opportunities ONE BOOK participate in arts and cultural activities based on arts engagement opportunities for military service to have an open dialogue about their personal experi- their personal preferences. Researchers hypothe- members and veterans, their families and caregivers, ences and to artistically express themselves as means In collaboration with Enoch size that identifying activities that the patient finds and the general public. IAM Lab partnered with to build self-understanding, identity, and connection. Pratt Free Library, Baltimore City enjoyable and engaging will reduce neuropsychi- Straz artist-in-residence and VetArtSpan Director Public Schools, and the T. Rowe atric symptoms and increase the quality of life for the Fred Johnson and colleague John Parks to conduct a This year’s book, “The Long Way Down” by Jason Price Foundation, this project patient and caregiver. review of the pilot program, which included events, provides 12,000 copies of the Reynolds, is a springboard for discussing the experi- curriculum, multi-week programming, and a variety of ence of gun and street violence. To assess changes in same book to Baltimore City 7th Building upon previous research conducted by communications products (videos, podcasts, website). attitudes and behavior a—er reading the book, IAM Lab and 8th graders to read and discuss with classmates Dr. Laura Gitlin, the current study adapts the TAP A—er reviewing qualitative data on the programs, IAM partnered with Dr. Karl Alexander of Johns Hopkins and teachers over a semester. Drawing from the protocol to an outpatient day program for people Lab made recommendations for strengthening and University (Emeritus) to conduct pre- and post-program bibliotherapy research—the use of literature as an living with dementia. Dr. Marilyn Albert and Dr. evaluating future programming. surveys of more than 1,200 students and with Dr. intervention for mental health—the One Book project Alexander Pantelyat, M.D. designed the study to David Faukunle of Morgan State University to conduct explores reading and storytelling as a way of healing explore the potential biological underpinnings of follow-up focus groups. and growth for schoolchildren and their communities. the TAP intervention, collecting biomarker data including salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase levels of participants.

10 2019 PROGRESS REPORT • TR ANSLATIONAL RESEARCH 11 EDUCATION AND OUTREACH

Creating learning experiences around the arts and health, wellbeing, and learning is central to IAM Lab’s mission. In 2019, we launched a series of interactive workshops and talks and partnered on important outreach projects designed to create a shared understanding of the role of the arts in health.

12 2019 PROGRESS REPORT • EDUCATION AND OUTREACH 13 ARTS + PUBLIC HEALTH PAPER EDUCATION AND OUTREACH EDUCATION

CREATING HEALTHY LEARNING COMMUNITIES Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America is a two-year national initiative designed to accelerate innovation at the intersection of the arts, EXPERIENCES community development, creative placemaking, and public health.

DIALOG SERIES Led by the University of Florida Center for Arts in o Creative Forces panel of experts, National Medicine and ArtPlace America, the initiative released The Dialog Series is a set of immersive learning experi- Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in partnership with a white paper entitled Creating Healthy Communities ences that bring together researchers, clinicians, and the U.S. Department of Defense and Veterans through Cross-sector Collaboration in partnership with practitioners in the Johns Hopkins community with Affairs—Creative Forces: Improving Health and several contributing organizations including IAM Lab. their peers in the Baltimore community. These Wellness of the Military Through the Arts. This document was the result of conversations and important conversations were live-streamed and research conducted over two years with hundreds of These concrete examples inform the paper’s recom- recorded to reach audiences far and wide. Dynamic researchers, practitioners, policy makers, educators, mendations and call-to-action, which assert the value presenters included: INTERNSHIPS AND and funders. of the arts and culture for community health transfor- o Dr. Tasha Golden, public health researcher and FELLOWSHIPS mation, and for advancing the culture of health being innovator—Advancing Health Equity: Embracing Designed for members of the public health sector envisioned today. Central to our role as a field-builder is our goal to the Creative Process to Evolve Health and other key stakeholders, the white paper frames develop career pathways for applied neuroaesthetics o the value of the arts and culture for advancing health Dr. James Gordon, M.D., Founder, researchers. This includes offering learning expe- and wellbeing in communities. It offers examples of Center for Mind-Body Medicine—Addressing riences for innovative thinkers and students with related impactful cross-sector collaborations that engage arts Trauma Through Immersive Healing Techniques interests and skills. In 2019, we hosted both a postdoc- and culture to address five critical public health issues: o Jill Sonke, Director, Center for Arts in Medicine toral fellow and graduate-level intern to build their collective trauma, racism, social isolation and exclusion, at the University of Florida—Arts in Health and experience in translational research in neuroaesthetics, mental health, and chronic disease. Wellbeing: State of the Field and Innovations and we look forward to welcoming more students in in Practice the future.

14 2019 PROGRESS REPORT • EDUCATION AND OU TREACH 15 DEMONSTRATION PROJECT EDUCATION AND OUTREACH EDUCATION

A SPACE FOR BEING A Space for Being AWARENESS brought together IAM Lab with Google

Hardware, Muuto, and MAREMOSSO BY PHOTOS Reddymade Architecture BUILDING to explore the influence of design on human biology through an MEDIA EMPATHY LUMINARY SCHOLARS immersive neuroaesthet- FOUNDATION ics exhibit at the Salon IAM Lab draws key insights from a group of visionaries de Mobile, the largest IAM Lab’s Executive Director Susan Magsamen is in fields ranging from healthcare to technology, music, international design Co-Founder and Chief Knowledge Officer of the science, and spirituality. These Luminary Scholars are event held annually in Milan, Italy. Google designed Media Empathy Foundation, an organization working important ambassadors in their respective sectors, and built a 6,000 square foot exhibit space with three to destigmatize the portrayal of severe mental illness raising awareness of IAM Lab and the field of neuro- unique rooms as the centerpiece. IAM Lab worked with (SMI) in news, entertainment, and social media and aesthetics more broadly. They also help to shape our architects and designers to curate different elements shape a narrative that fosters empathy and support for mission, research, and education agenda. We were for each room—including color, sound, light, textures, patients, families, and providers. The ME Foundation pleased to welcome renowned architect Jim Olson, and scent—to elicit varied responses from visitors. To will work with all forms of media to create content, founding partner of Olson Kundig, as a new Luminary capture the effect of each room, Google gave visitors a guidelines, training, and recognition and awareness this year. We look forward to adding new scholars soft wearable band with sensors capable of measuring campaigns that focus on depicting SMI fairly, accu- in 2020. biometrics and , such as heart rate. At the rately and without judgment. end of their tour, visitors were presented with a colorful readout of their biometrics in each room, providing real-time biological responses. Participants gained insights into the personal ways design influences well- being. The project received wide coverage in domestic and international media.

16 2019 PROGRESS REPORT • EDUCATION AND OUTREACH 17 COMMUNITY BUILDING

Our community is the heart of our work—where we turn for expertise and input, partnership, and data on the field. This year, we continued to build our community through targeted initiatives within Johns Hopkins, online, and across our global network.

IAM Lab connected with In 2019 researchers, clinicians, and arts practitioners all over the world. We are pleased to report that our database is growing rapidly. We now engage with: o 650 organizations o 8,000 individuals o 150 field events

As we continue to gather information, we are laying the initial groundwork for a taxonomy to define and map the field of applied neuroaesthetics. This high level of detail also allows us to better target our out- reach and communications and engage community stakeholders more meaningfully.

The IAM Lab database includes a diverse set of stakeholders across fields, sectors and impact areas.

18 2019 PROGRESS REPORT • COMMUNITY BUILD ING 19 MODEL OF APPLIED The scientific study of how the brain responds to the arts & aesthetic experiences for the purpose of improving biological, psychological, NEUROAESTHETICS social/cultural or spiritual outcomes for individuals or populations.

1 AN ISSUE 3 ISSUE 1 Common ISSUE 2 Refugee ISSUE 3 Residents of A STUDY pharma treatments children are high-crime communities involving: MAPPING THE for Parkinson’s have experiencing are experiencing high negative side effects. trauma in transition. levels of social isolation. SENSORY, QUESTION 1 Can QUESTION 2 Can a QUESTION 3 Can PERCEPTUAL OR EXPRESSIVE playing the guitar virtual reality program creative placemaking INTERVENTION GLOBAL improve motor control in refugee camps improve social capital? in individuals with improve children’s Environmental Arts: Architecture Parkinson’s Disease? mental health? & Design, Natural Environments, Cultural Experiences 2 A QUESTION Participatory Arts: Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Performing Arts, COMMUNITY BUILDING COMMUNITY COMMUNITY Media Arts +

ACADEMIC FIELD

4 OUTCOMES Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, measured and analyzed Neurology, Public Health, Psychiatry, Psychology, Sociology, MODEL ECOSYSTEM FOR Biomedical Engineering, Arts, Education, Humanities, APPLIED NEUROAESTHETICS Creative Arts Therapies

Coalescing the neuroaesthetics community begins BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIAL/ SPIRITUAL/ CULTURAL CONTEMPLATIVE with defining its purpose and reach and identifying key stakeholders. We launched exploratory field mapping physical health, mental health, social capital, quality of life, motor , mood, learning, belonging, flourishing, work in 2019, seeking to better understand the peo- movement cognition empathy purpose in life ple, art forms, and research approaches that support applied neuroaesthetics. 5 We began by engaging an advisory group to develop a model ecosystem of applied neuroaesthetics. After FINDINGS & presenting them with an initial straw man of the RECOMMENDATIONS disseminated to: model, we then gathered their feedback through one- on-one interviews. Media Policy Makers Professional Associations The result, at right, is a first draft visual model that Higher Education demonstrates the many elements of applied neuroaes- Funders thetics and adds key definition to the field. This project 6 was an important precursor for the recently launched NeuroArts Blueprint project with the Aspen Institute, SOLUTIONS discussed in the next section of this report. scaled through:

RESEARCH PRACTICE POLICY validate outcomes pilot programs grants or ask new questions training legislation to build upon regulations

20 2019 PROGRESS REPORT • COMMUNITY BUILDING 21 ORGANIZING ENGAGING OUR THE HOPKINS COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY BUILDING COMMUNITY COMMUNITY MEMBERS

ARTS IN HEALTH AND BLOG NEWSLETTER AND WELLBEING PROJECT SOCIAL MEDIA Our blog took off in 2019, thanks to a dedicated corps A recent environmental scan shows that Johns Hopkins An initial asset map identified more than 200 arts in of staff and contributing writers. In alignment with our We also continued to share our quarterly newsletter benefits from a variety of compelling assets in arts, health and wellbeing efforts at Johns Hopkins across the goal to be a “go-to” source for neuroaesthetics, we with our growing community. It’s our round-up of news health, and wellbeing, including: campuses. These results suggest a broad interest in arts commissioned and curated newsworthy content on and information shaping our work at IAM Lab and within leading ideas in the field and the people and institutions o support from internal and external experts; in health and wellbeing programming and a potential the field. Interested parties can join our mailing list to behind them. In total, we authored 25 new blog articles o influential cross-institution champions; need for better coordination and collaboration amongst receive the newsletter and the monthly blog digest by in 2019 as well as a landmark guest post in the Dana o existing dynamic programming; and efforts. The group is currently finalizing a Hopkins-wide visiting our web site. Subscribe here. Foundation’s peer-reviewed publication, Cerebrum. o a culture of leadership and excellence to survey to assess interest in building a coordinated support such exploration. network of arts in health and wellbeing initiatives at Follow us on social media: the university. Top Three Blogs of 2019 @artsandmindlab Building on these assets, IAM Lab joined a dynamic Dialog Series: Why The Arts cross-university steering committee to launch a are Essential to Public Health conversation about the potential for a large scale initia- Research 800 shares tive in Arts in Health and Wellbeing at the university. Led PRESS by Jill Sonke, director of the Center for Arts in Medicine Can You Mend a Broken Heart We reached new audiences through mainstream at the University of Florida, this effort began with through the Arts? 720 shares press mentions in: a presentation in October 2019 at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Sonke shared the current state of o Forbes the field including innovative new practices and impli- The Sound Resonance Project: o Fast Company cations for work across the Hopkins community. Read Can We Measure the Emotions of o Financial Times more about these findings and the new initiative here. Music? 440 shares o Dwell Magazine / Wallpaper* / Dezeen o Johns Hopkins Magazine Read the latest at: ArtsandMindLab.org/Blog

22 2019 PROGRESS REPORT • COMMUNITY BUILDING 23 WHAT’S NEXT 2020 Strategic Priorities

Building on the momentum from our 2019 partnerships and projects, we’d like to preview some of our work in 2020. We will continue to focus our efforts in the strategic priority areas of translational research, education and outreach, and community building, and we will anchor our work in a new collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

24 2019 PROGRESS REPORT • WHAT'S NEXT 25 or exacerbated by the pandemic including stress, TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH burnout, loneliness, and loss. We will also share the role Our research priorities for 2020 include completing and value of arts in social justice, amplifying the work of several in-process Impact Thinking projects and dissem- practitioners and programs in this movement. inating findings broadly to researchers, clinicians, and practitioners. IAM Lab will also convene a Scientific In 2020, we will continue our core communications Advisory Board to review our growing research and community building efforts, including expanding WHAT’S NEXT WHAT’S portfolio and make recommendations. One deliverable our database of contacts, publishing original blog is a report to distill lessons learned from our experience content, driving conversations on social media, and testing the Impact Thinking framework thus far. disseminating a quarterly newsletter. We will also continue to build our community at Johns Hopkins and We will also develop a Scholars program to identify across Baltimore through the Hopkins Arts in Health and convene researchers conducting novel studies and Wellbeing project by mapping and describing in applied neuroaesthetics. Through the Scholars assets, connecting similar programs and people, and program, we hope to create synergy among researchers expanding out to the broader Maryland/Baltimore with similar goals and continue to strengthen and community. Finally, we will begin planning a signature standardize research in applied neuroaesthetics. Science of the Arts conference to be held in Baltimore in Fall 2021/Spring 2022. OUTREACH AND EDUCATION OUR GROWING TEAM IAM Lab is focusing its 2020 education and outreach NEUROARTS BLUEPRINT efforts on developing foundational resources for In early 2020, IAM Lab moved into a new home on practitioners. We are currently curating content for the Mt. Washington campus of Johns Hopkins. We are Launched in 2019, the NeuroArts Blueprint: The The NeuroArts Blueprint will articulate and advance a “Neuroaesthetics 101” learning experience for pleased to be co-located with a beautiful conference Science of Arts, Health and Well-Being, is designed the scientific foundation and evidence for the role frontline practitioners in a variety of fields. This course center in an especially green and pastoral slice of to strengthen, standardize, and propel the emerging of arts in health and wellbeing through the lens of will provide an overview of the impact of the arts and Baltimore City, and we are eager to continue to grow field of neuroarts. research, practice, community-building, policy, aesthetics on the brain and equip practitioners like our team. We are filling key full-time positions to expand funding, and communications. The NeuroArts Blueprint is a partnership project of teachers, care providers, community organizers, mental our research capacity and seeking talented research IAM Lab and the Aspen Institute Health, Medicine and With an emphasis on translation, the Blueprint will health workers, and artists with tools and strategies to assistants to join our team for part of the academic year. Society Program. Renee Fleming, renowned soprano culminate in a roadmap to bring neuroarts into the incorporate into their own work. and co-founder of Sound Health Initiative; Eric Nestler, mainstream. We will define the value proposition We will also continue to partner with other universities neuroscientist and dean of Academic and Scientific that invites sustainable public and private investment, CONCLUSION and centers to create education and outreach oppor- Affairs at Mount Sinai Medical Center; and Michael identify training and professional development path- At IAM Lab, we are committed to growing the neuroarts tunities. We will serve as a field placement site for the Paseornek, originator and long-time president of ways, outline funding and policy strategies, and craft a ecosystem through innovation, collaboration, and rigor. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Lionsgate Film, will co-chair an interdisciplinary Advisory communication plan to attract broad interest and more. We will continue to fuel connections across disciplines, Arts, Health and Wellbeing clinical elective for third and Board of thought leaders to guide the project forward. accelerating our work and the work of others. Our north fourth-year medical students. Finally, we look forward IAM Lab’s Susan Magsamen co-directs the program To inform the NeuroArts Blueprint, and bring together star is creating a field where the arts are seen as essential to onboarding a director of outreach and education in with the Aspen Institute’s Ruth J. Katz, director of the as many disparate voices as possible, we are convening to health, wellbeing, and learning. 2020 to continue to expand this area of work. Health, Medicine and Society Program. a series of highly interactive, interdisciplinary meet- ings, and commissioned reports. Stakeholders and Since 2010, we’ve gone from a vision to a plan to a pioneers—in health care, neuroscience, public health, start-up. Now, with many lessons learned, we are a community development, art and architecture, tech- COMMUNITY BUILDING full-fledged scale-up. Thank you to the many advisors, nology, communications, philanthropy, and In the near-term, we are responding to requests from colleagues, and partners who made our work in 2019 business—will be at the table for this work. our community to share how the arts can support our so meaningful and positioned IAM Lab to embrace health and wellbeing during the pandemic. In April exciting new opportunities—as well the extraordinary 2020, we launched the COVID-19 NeuroArts Field challenges—facing us in 2020. Guide. This ongoing series showcases evidence-based art ideas that can help address issues created

26 2019 PROGRESS REPORT • WHAT'S NEXT 27 Model Ecosystem for Applied Margot Kelly-Hedrick, M.A., Research Program Coordinator, Gul Dolan, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, Brain Gary Vikan, Ph.D., Author; Benedict Distinguished Visiting Neuroaesthetics Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SOM Science Institute, SOM, JHU Professor, Carleton College Barbara Landau, Ph.D., Ed.M., Dick and Lydia Todd Professor of John Paul Eberhard, FAIA, (1927–2020), Founding Member, The Jenny Warren, Interior Design Consultant PROJECT ADVISORS Cognitive Science (SAS) and Neuroscience (SOM), Vice Provost Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture; Architect Xiaoqin Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering, for Faculty Affairs Julio Bermudez, Ph.D., M.Arch., Professor, School of Architecture James C. Harris, M.D., Director, Developmental Neuropsychiatry Neuroscience, Otolaryngology; Director, Laboratory of Auditory and Planning, Catholic University Phil Leaf, Ph.D., Professor, Mental Health, School of Public Clinic; Professor, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Neurophysiology, SOM, JHU Health; Director, Center for Adolescent Health SOM, JHU Andrea Camp, Senior Advisor, Civil Society Institute Susan Forscher Weiss, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Musicology, Loren Ludwig, Ph.D., Program Coordinator, Arts, Humanities, Steven Holochwost, Ph.D., Director of Research for Youth & Peabody Institute and Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, JHU Girija Kaimal, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Department of Creative and Health, SOM Families at WolfBrown; Research Scientist, Science of Learning Arts Therapies, Drexel University Susan Magsamen, M.A., Executive Director, International Arts + Institute, JHU SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD Fred Marks, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Six Sigma Green Belt, Chair, Mind Lab, Brain Science Institute, SOM Sarah Hoover, D.M.A., Associate Dean for Innovation, Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture Marilyn Albert, M.D., Director of Cognitive Neuroscience; Alexander Pantelyat, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology; Interdisciplinary Partnerships and Community Initiatives; Professor of Neurology, SOM, JHU Judy Rollins, Ph.D., RN, President, Rollins and Associates; Adjunct Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Movement Disorders Fellowship Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine, Peabody Assistant Professor, Georgetown University School of Medicine Fred Bronstein, D.M.A., Dean, Peabody Institute, JHU Program; Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Institute, JHU Amy Shelton, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Medicine Natasha Hussain, Ph.D., Scientific Director, Kavli Neuroscience Anjan Chatterjee, M.D., Director, Penn Center for Interim Executive Director of Research for the Center of Talented Neuroaesthetics; Elliott Professor Neurology, University Vinciya Pandian, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.S.N., RN, Professor, Discovery Institute, SOM, JHU Youth, School of Education of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Neuroanesthesia, SON Richard Huganir, Ph.D., Director, Neuroscience; Bloomberg Jill Sonke, M.A., Director, Center for Arts in Medicine, University David Hellmann, M.D., Aliki Perroti Professor, Vice Director Amy Shelton, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Distinguished Professor, Neuroscience and Psychological and of Florida of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Interim Executive Director of the Center of Talented Youth, SOE Brain Sciences; Co-Director, Brain Science Institute, SOM, JHU Stacey Springs, Ph.D., Research Integrity Officer, Harvard John Krakauer, M.A., M.D., Director, Center for the Study of Richard Sima, Ph.D., Editorial Assistant, International Arts + Mind John W. Krakauer, M.A., M.D., Director, Center for the University; Research Associate in Health Services Policy and Motor Learning and Brain Repair; John C. Malone Professor, Lab, Brain Science Institute, SOM Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair; John C. Malone Practice, Brown University School of Public Health Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine & Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, SOM, JHU OUR PARTNERS, ADVISORS, AND TEAM ADVISORS, OUR PARTNERS, Ed Vessel, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute of Rehabilitation, SOM, JHU Empirical Aesthetics International Arts + Mind Lab, Brain Barbara Landau, Ph.D., Ed.M., Dick and Lydia Todd Professor of Susan Magsamen, M.A., Executive Director, IAM Lab, Brain Science Institute Cognitive Science (SAS) and Neuroscience (SOM), Vice Provost Science Institute, SOM, JHU Johns Hopkins Arts in Health and for Faculty Affairs, JHU Justin McArthur, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Director and Professor, TEAM Neurology, SOM, JHU Wellbeing Project Rong Li, Ph.D., Director, Center for Dynamics, Institute for Susan Magsamen, M.A., Executive Director Basic BIomedical Sciences; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Michael Miller, Ph.D., Director, Biomedical Engineering; Director, WORKING GROUP MEMBERS Marilyn S. Albert, Ph.D., Director of Cognitive Neuroscience; and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, SOM Center for Imaging Science; Co-Director, Kavli Neuroscience Professor of Neurology, SOM and Whiting School of Engineering, JHU Discovery Institute; Bessie Darling Massey Professor, Biomedical Karen Alexander, M.P.A., Education and Outreach Director, IAM Engineering, JHU Lab, Brain Science Institute, SOM Karen Alexander, M.P.A., Education and Outreach Director David Linden, Ph.D., Professor, Neuroscience, SOM, JHU Jeffrey D. Rothstein,M .D., Ph.D., Director, Brain Science Institute, Evelyn Battle, Senior Administrative Coordinator Fred Marks, Architect, The American Institute of Architects Lisa Allen, Ph.D., M.A., Chief Patient Experience Officer, Johns Professor, Neurology and Neuroscience, SOM, JHU Hopkins Medicine Samuel Garrett, M.M., Database Assistant Justin C. McArthur, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Director and Professor, Neurology, SOM, JHU Jill Sonke, M.A., Director, Center for Arts and Medicine, University Annie Woods Beatson, CCLS, Child Life Specialist I, Infant/ Tasha Golden, Ph.D., Senior Arts in Health Research Scientist of Florida Mary Ann Mears, Sculptor, Arts Advocate Toddler Unit, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Megan Howard, Communications Director Michael Miller, Ph.D., Director and Bessie Darling Massey Lee Biddison, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Medicine, Chief Sarah Pitcock Lohnes, MPP, Strategic Initiatives Manager LUMINARIES Wellness Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Director, Center for Imaging Richard Sima, Ph.D., Editorial Assistant Science; Co-Director, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, JHU Andy Cunningham, Founder and President, Cunningham Suzanne Brockman, RN, Joy at Hopkins Program Manager, Office Collective of Well-being Barbara Smith, Administrative Manager Itai Palti, Founder, Conscious Cities; Director, Hume Lama Surya Das, Western Buddhist Meditation Teacher and Patrice Brylske, CCLS, Director, Child Life Department, Johns Alexander Pantelyat, M.D., Co-Director, Center for Music and EXECUTIVE ADVISORY BOARD Scholar Hopkins Children’s Center Medicine; Director, Atypical Parkinsonism Center; Assistant Helene Ellison, President and Co-Founder, Media Empathy Amy J. Bastian, Ph.D., Chief Science Officer, Kennedy Krieger Professor, Neurology, SOM, JHU Tonia Burnette, R.A., Senior Director of Architecture and Foundation Planning, Johns Hopkins Health System Institute; Director, Motion Analysis Laboratory; Professor, Marilyn Pedersen, Founder, Brain Science Institute, SOM, JHU Neuroscience and Neurology, SOM, JHU Guy Mckhann, M.D., Professor, Neurology and Neuroscience, Meg Chisolm, M.D., Vice Chair for Education, Psychiatry, and Maggie Pedersen, Business Consultant SOM, JHU Julio Bermudez, Ph.D., Director, Sacred Space and Cultural Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Jeffrey D. Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Brain Science Institute, Studies Graduate Program; Professor, The Catholic University Jim Olson, FAIA, Founder and Principal, Olson Kundig Sciences, SOM Professor, Neurology and Neuroscience, SOM, JHU of America School of Architecture and Planning Benj Pasek, Tony, Oscar and Golden Globe-winning Songwriter Carolyn Davies, Administrative Project Specialist, Dean’s Office, Amy Shelton, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Stephen J. Campbell, Ph.D., Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld and Composer Peabody Institute Interim Executive Director of the Center of Talented Youth, SOE, Professor, History of Art, JHU Kathy Hirsh Pasek, Ph.D., Director, Infant Language Laboratory; Gail Geller, M.H.S., Sc.D., Professor, Berman Institute of Bioethics JHU Anjan Chatterjee, M.D., Director, Penn Center for Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Faculty Fellow, Psychology, Temple Kirsten Gercke, M.P.A., Sr. Administrative Manager, SOM; Marshall G. Hussain Shuler, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Neuroaesthetics; Elliott Professor Neurology, University of University Interim Asst. Dean of Bayview campus Neuroscience, SOM, JHU Pennsylvania School of Medicine Ivy Ross, Vice President of Design for Hardware Products, Google Neda Gould, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Ralph Terkowitz, General Partner, ABS Capital Partners Janice Clements, Ph.D., Mary Wallace Stanton Professor for Rudy Tanzi, Ph.D., Vice-Chair, Neurology; Director, and Behavioral Sciences, SOM; Associate Director, Anxiety Disorders Faculty Affairs; Vice Dean of Faculty; Director of Retrovirus Elizabeth Tolbert, Ph.D., Professor, Musicology, Peabody Aging Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital; Joseph Clinic, Bayview Medical Center Laboratory; Professor of Molecular and Comparative Institute, JHU P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor, Neurology, Harvard Medical Sarah Hoover, D.M.A., Associate Dean of Innovation, Pathobiology, SOM, JHU Shea Trahan, Architect, American Institute of Architects; LEED School Interdisciplinary Partnerships, and Community Initiatives, Ed Conner, Ph.D., Director, Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute; Accredited Professional Peabody Institute Professor, Neuroscience, SOM, JHU

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