From the Ground Up: Developing Programming at the Intersection of Arts and Health

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 1:00pm CDT

Online via Zoom

1:00-1:30 p.m. Welcome Address by Sarah J. Bartolome
1:30-2:15 p.m. Keynote Address by Kate Villa

All arts programming is public health. Traditionally, when we think of arts programming that explores public health work, many people immediately respond with conversations and talking heads. But if we think of all artistic programming – music, comedy, dance – as public health in the first place, the work begins to explain itself. While some activations have a specific outcome in mind or are being developed as a therapeutic practice, much of the work at the intersection of arts and health is simply the act of participating in the arts. It is community care and the development of social bonds. It strengthens cultural ties and introduces us to new places, people, and sounds. This keynote will explore the impulses for developing arts and health activations and how responsive programming is the future of the arts' place in public health. 

Kate Villa is currently a consultant curator building out Arts and Wellbeing programming at Lincoln Center.

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