NeuroArts Blueprint

The NeuroArts Blueprint: The Science of Arts, Health and Well-Being is an initiative designed to strengthen, standardize, and propel the emerging field of neuroarts.

Members

  • Jamie Bennett

    Deeply committed to creative placemaking, community development, and participatory grantmaking, Jamie Bennett plays a pivotal role in positioning arts and culture as core elements of a healthy society.Advisory Board Members

  • Daniel Alfonso Colón-Ramos

    In Daniel Alfonso Colón-Ramos’s lab, studies of how synapses are formed, maintained, and modified during learning are changing long-held views about how neurons connect to transmit and store information. Advisory Board Members

  • Elizabeth Diller

    From New York City’s High Line to Moscow’s Zaryadye Park, the design studio co-founded by Elizabeth Diller—Diller Scofidio + Renfro—has transformed spaces around the world and won widespread critical acclaim.Advisory Board Members

  • Michele Elam

    Through interdisciplinary research that examines changing representations of gender and race, Michele Elam examines the cultural narratives that shape the public imagination about emergent technologies.Advisory Board Members

  • Ellen Galinsky

    Avid photographer and author of the best-seller Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs, Ellen Galinsky researches child development, parental relationships, work-life issues, and youth voice.Advisory Board Members

  • Macy Gray

    Since releasing her award-winning album On How Life Is, soul singer Macy Gray continues to earn her the status of pop culture icon and enchant fans around the globe.Advisory Board Members

  • David Hellmann

    David Hellmann’s own illness, coupled with his medical training, led him to found a think tank and incubator to build on his commitment to medicine as a public trust.Advisory Board Members

  • Elizabeth Jameson

    A former public interest attorney with multiple sclerosis, Elizabeth Jameson transforms MRI images of her compromised brain into artwork designed to explore the meaning of illness.Advisory Board Members

  • Sheila C. Johnson

    Co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), Sheila Johnson is an entrepreneur, partial owner of professional sports teams, and an engaged philanthropist committed to empowering women and minorities.Advisory Board Members

  • Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

    Trained as a sociologist, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is an author, educator, researcher, public intellectual, and portraitist who is, in her own words, “witness, archeologist, spider woman, storyteller, and mirror.”Advisory Board Members

  • David Leventhal

    Founding teacher of Dance for PD®, a program of the renowned Mark Morris Dance Group, David Leventhal uses dance as a health tool for people with Parkinson’s disease.Advisory Board Members

  • Daniel J. Levitin

    Daniel Levitin is a true polymath—neuroscientist and musician, best-selling author and cognitive psychologist—who studies the mood-enhancing and performance-boosting power of music.Advisory Board Members

  • Charles Limb

    Charles Limb uses a rigorous scientific method to understand improvisation, mental agility, problem-solving, and other aspects of creativity, convinced that harnessing the relevant brain processes can change civilization.Advisory Board Members

  • Vivek Murthy

    As Surgeon General and then author of Together: “The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World,” Vivek Murthy promotes art as a rich tool for promoting social interaction.Advisory Board Members

  • Emmanuel Pratt

    Emmanuel Pratt’s work lies at the intersection of architecture, urbanization, race/identity, gentrification, and the transformative processes of community economic development.Advisory Board Members

  • Ivy Ross

    Well-designed spaces can foster comfort, enliven the senses, and promote creativity, believes Ivy Ross, an award-winning jewelry designer who has overall design responsibility for Google’s hardware.Advisory Board Members

  • Jill Sonke

    Jill Sonke oversees faculty research and degree programs built around arts in medicine and manages artists-in-residence who provide visual, performance, and literary arts experiences to hospitalized patients.Advisory Board Members

  • Stacey Springs

    Attention to narrative, both spoken and heard, plays an essential role in translating evidence into health policy and practice effectively, believes Stacey Springs, who calls the mind “a story-making machine.”Advisory Board Members

  • Laurie M. Tisch

    Supporting the arts as a tool for healing is a philanthropic priority to Laurie Tisch, who focuses especially on mental health stigma, trauma, aging-related diseases, caregivers, and frontline health care workers.Advisory Board Members

  • Philip Yenawine

    Building on studies of aesthetic and cognitive development, Philip Yenawine has created curricula to teach visual skills techniques that use art to build critical thinking, language, and literacy.Advisory Board Members

Advisors

  • Emmeline Edwards

    Passionate about neuroscience and dedicated to scientific rigor, Emmeline Edwards oversees a broad portfolio of complementary and integrative health research at the National Institutes of Health.Advisory Board Advisors

  • Sunil Iyengar

    Poet, critic, and book reviewer, Sunil Iyengar builds public and private partnerships to grow the evidence for art as a tool for advancing health, well-being, and economic development.Advisory Board Advisors