Supporting Artists in Healthy Practice
Mark Webster and Kate Gant
Supporting artists in healthy practice
• What is Arts and health?
• Skills shortage in the region
• Elements of good practice
• Artists Professional Development Programme
• Making the first steps…
What is Arts and Health?
• History• Current practice• Its role in health delivery• Models of practice and delivery• Evidence base
Minding the gap: skills shortage
• The needs of the sectors• Background and training for artists• What makes a good arts and health artist?
Approaches to good practice
• Developing• Delivery• Evaluation
Developing
• Inclusive• Relevance• Value
Delivery
• Involvement• Safe• Fit for purpose
Evaluation
• Reflective• Ethical• Shared
Developing Arts for Health: Artist Professional Development Programme
• Integration of theory and practice• Practitioner based approach• The learning environment• Accreditation
Invitation to Participate
http://www.praxisartsandhealth.org.ukhttp://www.artscouncil.org.uk/
publication_archive/a-prospectus-for-arts-and-health
http://www.creativeremedies.org.ukGant, K and Bell, K. (2006) Staffordshire South Arts
for Health training audit research and consultation. Download from http://www.praxisartsandhealth.org.uk
Photo credits: Multistory artists http://www.multistory.org.uk