Celebration of Arts and Health

We invite you to join us for a week of exploration, celebration, and activation of arts and health at Tisch!

Dates: April 15-20, 2024

What can we learn from arts practitioners and scholars who are deeply engaged in the subject of health in their work?
What does health and wellness look like in work across the arts at Tisch?
What activates you to action?

The Celebration of Arts and Health at Tisch will take place in person in the Dean’s Conference Room, 721 Broadway, and the Paulson Center, 181 Mercer Street, Studio G. Please note that masks are not required to attend the event but are always welcome. Please let us know if you will need any accommodations for your participation. This is not a mandatory event; participation is by invitation and is completely voluntary.

Join us for each session on Zoom here if you are unable to join us in person.

Schedule of Speakers and Events:

Monday, April 15 – 6:00pm – 7:30pm – Dean’s Conference Room, 721 Broadway
Opening reception and community conversation

Tuesday, April 16 – 5:00pm – 7:00pm – Dean’s Conference Room, 721 Broadway   

• Sheril Antonio (Undergraduate Film & Television ’81; Cinema Studies ’99; Associate Arts Professor, Art & Public Policy) The Artist as Witness
• Andy Teirstein (Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program ’83; Arts Professor, Department of Dance) Music in the Prison and the Refugee Camp: Artistic Dialogue as Health Practice
• Community Conversation

Wednesday, April 17 – 6:00pm – 8:00pm – Dean’s Conference Room, 721 Broadway

• Elizabeth Coker (Associate Arts Professor, Department of Dance) Embodiment as a Foundation for Scientific Inquiry
• LaRaisha Dionne (Drama '08) Fueling the Body: An Interactive Exploration of Pilates Through Osmosis & Oxygen (please note this will be an interactive mini-workshop)
• Community Conversation

Thursday, April 18 – 5:00pm – 7:00pm – Paulson Center, 181 Mercer Street, Studio G, 5th floor

• Lily Peixuan Yu (ITP’24), Mashiyat Zaman (ITP ’24), Tom Xia (ITP ’24), Joyce Yayuan Zheng (ITP ’25), Yidan Hu (ITP, ‘25) Community Canvas
• Yannick Trapman-O’Brien (NYUAD-Theater ‘14) Participation and Exchange: Crafting Meaningful Co-Authorship
• Community Conversation

Friday, April 19 – 5:00pm – 7:00pm – Dean’s Conference Room, 721 Broadway

• Marianne Petit (Arts Professor, ITP/IMA) Graphic Medicine, Pop-Ups, and Papercuts: An ARTful Interpretation of Orthopedics and My Anatomical Journal
• Neeti Sivakumar (ITP ’24) Anticipating Grief
• Evelyn Coates (Department of Photo & Imaging ‘24) Gravity Will Wave You In
• Community Conversation

Saturday, April 20 –  Paulson Center, 181 Mercer Street, Studio G, 5th floor

10:00am-1pm

• Nisha Sajnani (Associate Professor and Director, Drama Therapy Program, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; Co-Director Jameel Arts & Health Lab) and Mauricio Salgado (Assistant Arts Professor, Department of Drama) Arts & Health @ NYU Initiative and With Care: WHO Resource on the Arts and Ethics of Care
• Jessica Hecht (Department of Drama ’87; Adjunct Faculty, Experimental Theatre Wing/Department of Drama) A Wellness Based Art Camp Makes its Way Around the World
• Juan Pablo Caicedo (Arts Politics-Art & Public Policy ‘23) Coca Worlds: Cultural Production towards Collective Healing as a Political Practice
• Seyeon Jeong (Department of Photo & Imaging ‘25) Traveling with Leeway
• Community Conversation

1:30pm – 2:30pm

• Mary Bitel (Associate Arts Professor, Collaborative Arts/Open Arts) and Rosemary Quinn (Arts Professor, Department of Drama; Director, Experimental Theatre Wing) Closing Space

This event is made possible by an NYU Tisch Dean's Grant and support from the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research (TCR)

Mary Bitel (Collaborative Arts/Open Arts) and Schuylar Johns (Drama ’22),
Co-Producers LaRaisha Dionne (Drama ‘08), Yannick Trapman-O’Brien (NYUAD-Theater ‘14) and Yarin Neuhaus (Drama ’22), Associate Producers