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We were thrilled to have collaborated with colleagues from the UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine, and Wilmot Botanical Gardens, to publish a new study with PLOS 🌻

The study found group-based gardening and art-making provides measurable benefits for a women’s mental health! It offers a basis for larger-scale RCT studies that could support the integration of gardening and art-making in public health efforts 🌿🎨🖌

Check out the article in The Hill 🌱🪴🎭
🔗http://ow.ly/KaF250JV218

I used to think I wasn’t creative because I’m not artsy. I don’t create with my hands, I create with my words and so do you!

Moments of disruption leave behind chaos and that is the best environment to create something new. GOD chose a moment of chaos to speak original creation into existence. This is that kind of moment for you!

You have something you were born to create. A new song, a new brand or a new baby! You have to breakthrough the chaos and clutter snd discover the voice of THE creator inside you.

Jesus understood the key component to this creativity. The WILL of the Father. This word means a purpose that creates pleasure. He has a purpose for your life that brings you both pleasure. When you discover what makes Gods heart sing about you, your heart will sing too.

We are on week #4 of a teaching series called The Next Epoch. This is a FREE webinar series about how to discover and create what comes next. You can watch the first three episodes on my YouTube page and join me LIVE tomorrow night for episode 4: Seeing The New

Follow this link to view or register
https://linktr.ee/Bobhazlettmedia
I’ll see you in the new!

Music 🎶🎸🪘

New report about released today! Download WE-Making: How Arts & Culture Unite People to Work Toward Community Well-Being, and learn how place-based arts and cultural practices, , foster community well-being.

Learn more here: https://communitydevelopment.art/issues/social-cohesion

YES!! Have some fun this weekend 👏

Daily Prophetic Word for today!

📣 Webinar Opp 📣 The SITAR Arts Center's Leadership Council invites you to The Arts and Emotional Well-Being Salon Dialogue featuring the premiere screening of, "There'll Be Sun". Hosted by, Jade Floyd with Gordon Davis, Joy Radish, Jill Sonke of University of Florida and Karen Robinson-Ogbebor of ABC7 News!

Register now: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dQ8_KvH7RKapcoDQOVeFrg

Portrait Artists Commemorating Doctors and Nurses in COVID Times The pandemic is especially hard on health care workers

A good reminder to just keep creating ✨

“Engaging in the arts is a health-related behavior that may be influenced by social inequalities.” The latest National Endowment for the Arts Taking Note blog is an insightful breakdown of a new article available in pre-print! This article explores the of Arts Engagement.

Read it now using this link: https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2021/taking-note-social-determinants-arts-engagement

A meme for today...

Opera Singers Help Covid-19 Patients Learn to Breathe Again A six-week program developed by the English National Opera and a London hospital offers customized vocal lessons to aid coronavirus recovery.

NOAH members ComMotion are offering free online dance classes for cancer survivors starting February 18! More info 👇👇👇
https://thenoah.net/free-online-dance-classes-for-cancer-survivors-starting-february-18/

Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️ Whether you are single, married, dating, divorced: you deserve to love & be loved everyday. How can you make self-love a priority? How can you show love to your mental health today and everyday?

Tag someone who you want to show some love to today! ❤️

have you listened to my recent podcast on how to use the Neurocycle to heal & improve relationships? Just look for Cleaning up the Mental Mess wherever you listen to podcasts or click here: https://anchor.fm/cleaningupthementalmess/episodes/A-Neurocycle-for-healing--improving-relationships--how-to-channel-intense--ugly-emotions-in-the-right-direction-eq8939

"Just 30 minutes of the arts per day to improve mental health", writes Americans for the Arts own Randy Cohen.

The effects of the pandemic, racial injustice, remote learning, and unemployment have spiked mental health issues across the country, and, "the arts are a proven contributor in keeping us mentally healthy, helping us heal when we are not well, and reducing healthcare costs."

This blog shares how arts agencies (National Endowment for the Arts, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies: NASAA) are working to improve mental health through the arts.
https://blog.americansforthearts.org/2021/02/03/strengthening-mental-health-through-the-arts-including-mine

The legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan – if even for a moment, and getting them to think, rage, cry, laugh, argue...walk around the block, dazed...(I do that a lot after seeing powerful theater!) More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it then, and God put you there to deliver.
~ Carrie Hamilton

Study says learning a musical instrument increases your IQ by 10 percent Picking up a musical instrument gives you a higher IQ, according to a new study of more than 4,600 volunteers.

How the Pandemic Impacted Artists in 2020 From the unsurprising losses to the unexpected gains, here's how your fellow artists are faring after a year of canceled shows and stay-at-home orders. Getty Images We’re a year into COVID-19. Can…

Renoir, Monet, and so many other artists, continued (and continue) to create in spite of physical diseases/conditions, such as arthritis or blindness. Adapting materials, creating from memory, whatever it takes to keep going ~ nothing should hold us back from doing the things we were created to do. We may need to do them differently, but that doesn't matter. We either adjust and keep going, or quit, which kills off a vital part of who we are. There are many groups of artists (visual, performing, and literary) who continue to work in their own beautiful way, honoring that creative part of themselves.

Do more of what you love ~ NO LIMITS!

Astonishing Film of Arthritic Impressionist Painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1915) You may never look at a painting by Pierre-August Renoir in quite the same way again after seeing this three-minute film. It didn't show in his artwork, but Renoir suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis during the last three decades of his life.

WATCH: Nurse sings ‘Amazing Grace’ at national COVID remembrance With the Reflecting Pool as a backdrop, and 400 lights lit up in honor of the 400,000 dead, Lori Marie Key, a 29-year-old nurse from Livonia, Michigan, sang “Amazing Grace.”

It’s true – music really does make students smarter, and this study proves it A music educator set out to disprove any relationship between students’ musical and academic achievement – and ended up doing just the opposite.

A New Tool in Treating Mental Illness: Building Design Research into the health effects of natural and man-made surroundings is spurring the development of psychiatric facilities that feel more residential and welcoming.

FREE online dance classes for cancer survivors starting January 7! - National Organization for Arts in Health Cancer survivors and their friends & family are invited to join ComMotion – Community in Motion for FREE online dance classes starting January 7 at 6pm eastern time. This program uses dances such as Merengue, Salsa, & Bachata as a fun and social way to both exercise and connect with other survivor...

7 Studio Session Jump-Starts Feeling uninspired? Don’t know where to begin? Need a nudge to get back to the easel? Try these seven ideas to power up your creativity. Getty Images New year, new intentions. Now’s the perfect time to tap into some fresh ideas to inspire your next studio session. “Art begets art,” says accl...

Anatomy of a Water Drop by Bob Kampman...
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How 24 Artists Break Free of Creative Limitations Here's their advice for spicing up a creative rut and experimenting in exciting and unexpected ways. Getty Images In Episode 6 of the Art Bound podcast, we heard from Suchitra Mattai and Taylor…

Beethoven. ♥

Study says music takes 13 minutes to ‘release sadness’ and 9 to make you happy The fascinating new research proves that music heals and suggests that in future, music could be prescribed to help us focus, feel happier, relax and overcome sadness.

(via www.music-teacher-resources.com)

Musicians and medical experts attempt to create new safety protocols for future live events Nearly a half-million performing arts jobs have been lost in California due to the difficulty of producing music with the mask requirement.

Make 2021 the year that you try! If you pre-order my new book The Listening Path, you can receive a 50% off discount code to The Artist’s Way video course.

https://bit.ly/TLPPreorder

Honored to share my 2 cents ~ definitely tired of this stereotype.

15 Artists Respond to the 'Starving Artist' Stereotype Does the idea of the starving artist help or hurt artists? Getty Images Since the launch of our new artist podcast Art Bound, we’ve been continuing the real talk after hours with the Artists Network…