The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in partnership with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, hosted a discussion focused on artists' role in building an equitable economy and their influence on community health and wellbeing on November 20, 2020 via Webex.
The webinar explored the intersection of arts and culture, community investments, and healthy communities. Creative and arts-based strategies are central to community development and can support investments that strive for equitable and durable long-term health outcomes. Speakers included leaders striving to invest their capital in an upstream approach to health care through arts, artists as catalysts of change in communities, and academia providing current research on the connection between arts and health.
November 20, 2020
1:00pm - 2:30pm
The event was open to the media and members of the public. All remarks were on-the-record unless otherwise noted and the event was recorded.
| 1:00pm-1:10pm | Welcome & Opening Remarks David Erickson, SVP, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Deborah Cullinan, CEO, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts |
| 1:10pm-1:50pm | Investing in Artists to Build Community and Create Change Moderator: Annie Donovan, COO, LISC Lyz Crane, Deputy Director, ArtPlace America Hatuey Ramos-Fermín, Director of Programs, The Laundromat Project Linh Dang, Senior Director, NYC Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine |
| 1:50pm-2:00pm | Artist Vignette Darryl Ratcliff, Co-Founder, Gossypion Investments |
| 2:00pm-2:20pm | Evidence-based Research on Arts and Health Susan Magsamen, Founder and Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab, Brain Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine David O. Fakunle, Ph.D., CEO DiscoverME/RecoverME: Enrichment Through the African Oral Tradition |
| 2:20pm-2:30pm | Reflections & Closing Penelope Douglas, Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer, YBCA, and Outreach & Education Visiting Scholar, New York Fed |
Media & General Inquiries
This event was open to the media. All remarks and panels were on-the-record, unless otherwise noted. Members of the press may contact Andrea Priest.
For more information about this event, please email NY.Fed.CommunityDevelopment@ny.frb.org.
Co-Sponsors
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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COVID-19 Arts Response Repository
Creating Healthy Communities through Cross-Sector Collaboration
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Kelly Street Wellness Project
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