Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization

Eve Byrd The Carter Center

Positively Creative: The Arts and Youth Mental Health

October 10 2024, 1 - 4PM The Michael C. Carlos Museum @ Emory University, Ackerman Hall, Level Three

As a longstanding champion of mental health, The Carter Center – in collaboration with the Carlos Museum of Emory University – hosted “Positively Creative: The Arts and Youth Mental Health.” This event included global and local expert panelists, including:

  • Nils Fietje, PhD - Founding Co-Director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab & Technical Officer for the BCI Unit, WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Jordan R. Murphy, PhD, RN, CPNP Chief Executive Officer, Center for Interrelational Science and Pediatrics (CSIP)
  • Liz McDaniel Director of Engagement and Development, Georgia Appleseed Center for Law & Justice
  • Mohsin Mohi Ud Din, Founder and CEO, MeWe International Inc. 

In addition to these speakers, participants had the opportunity to take part in an experiential collaborative collage that demonstrated how artmaking could improve well-being. The session provided strong evidence and concrete examples of how incorporating art into social and health programming boosted mental health and how organizations could creatively address the youth mental health crisis.

This event included brief remarks from artists, activists and public health leaders about the current and future art and public health initiatives taking place in Atlanta, as part of the Museum’s Stand & Witness: Time in the Art of Covid-19.