Long-awaited news: Keywords for the Health Humanities is available for pre-order today! This book, edited by Sari Altshuler, Priscilla Wald, and Jonathan Metzl, compiles 70 entries by 70 authors on the words whose meanings shape the landscape of health and care. I know it will illuminate for years to come, and I can’t wait to […]Continue Reading
ArchivesAuthor: Alexa Miller
03MarThe Lifechanging Magic of Looking at Art
This piece was originally posted on the Interintellect Blog Creation of the Birds (Creacion de las Aves) — © Remedios Varo, c. 1957 — Location: Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico We can only imagine the spectrum of brutalities and love known by painter Remedios Varo, though the peace-seeking qualities of her riveting body of […]Continue Reading
24FebFirst-Friday Fun to carry us through to the warmer months
Friends, Happy New Year! Did you hear? February is the new January. Here we go 2022! In response to requests from individuals for non-organizational, low-cost way, unrecorded ways to engage, I’m trying something new this year: Salons that center joy and togetherness. My new series — The Joy of Looking: Collisions with Art and Collective Perspectives — starts this Friday. […]Continue Reading
23DecCrafting the Worlds We Cannot Live Without
Earlier today, a friend texted me this quote: REMEMBER TOIMAGINE + CRAFTTHE WORLDSYOU CANNOTLIVE WITHOUT.JUST AS YOUDISMANTLETHE ONESYOU CANNOTLIVE WITHIN. -Ruha Benjamin These words gave me the kind of fuel that prompts not the attack-mode of productivity but the softness and flow of world-crafting. It reminded me to pull out from the back of the […]Continue Reading
20AugWhy I’m Obsessed with Uncertainty
1. Given what a prevalent part of work, life, and relationships it is, it is well worth understanding what uncertainty actually is: its different types, challenges, influencers, opportunities, and the resources inside and among us that we can bring to the challenge. 2. Those whose daily bread and butter is people / care / leadership, and […]Continue Reading
06MayWhy have a relationship with art or with nature?
I recently asked my students this very question, after a playful discussion on a poem by e. e. cummings: maggie and millie and molly and may. The poem, a simple yet not simplistic one, speaks to just that. That relationship – between human and that which is much bigger than us; unknown to us, separate […]Continue Reading
30AprSeeking 2021 Summer Intern
Arts Practica seeks candidates for a summer intern to assist with operations related to programming, as well as research. We are a small business looking to expand our programming in the healthcare sector and seeking a proactive candidate with a passion for healthcare, education or arts administration, or social enterprise. The successful intern will jump […]Continue Reading
31DecHow do you describe 2020?
One of the things I’ve kept an ear out for all year is the words people use to describe that which is 2020. How we describe it speaks volumes as to what problems we are in contact with, our level of contact, and our willingness to face our world and ourselves. Words like trauma, betrayal, […]Continue Reading
23DecThe Performance Paradigm: Three Shifts for Healthcare
This content originally appeared on the Arena Labs blog Performance science is the study of human thriving. What does it mean to apply that idea of thriving to the minds, bodies, and teams of those in society most committed to the care and thriving of patients? It’s a particularly important part of the piece of what a […]Continue Reading
18DecJan 1 Gathering: Re-Creation
Friends / Colleagues / Students / Teachers / Extremely attractive hilarious human-loving humans: Hello! And what are you up to on New Years Day? I am writing to invite you to join me for a mini-retreat on the concept of Re-creation. Re-creation Re-creation. These days, the concept has been rolling through my mind like a […]Continue Reading
