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Vision
We champion a future built on the courage and knowledge of educators, providers, and advocates of health who reject dehumanizing healthcare in favor of the pleasures of listening, building trust, and accurate diagnosis.
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What we do
Arts Practica creates memorable learning experiences celebrating the BOLD practices that create life-changing choices for patients and transform culture in healthcare.
We teach in a memorable mix arts of didactics, arts experiences, and dynamic-shifting conversations.
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We believe
Excellent patient care is leadership to society.
Excellent patient care is art.
The clinicians in closest contact with the needs of patients and communities have a critical role to play in our best possible future.
Chris Burden, Light of Reason, Rose Art Museum, 2014
“If we follow by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.”
—Justice Louis Brandeis
BOLD Expertise
The first non-MD to hold a fellowship with the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, ArtsPractica Founder Alexa Miller has studied how the most successful diagnosticians approach uncertainty.
She found four key common principles, each a very simple practice, encapsulated in the acronym BOLD:
Believe: in the legitimacy of the patient experience.
Observe: carefully and adaptively.
Locate: yourself, root causes, and patient goals.
Decide: together and towards agency
Copyright Alexa Miller 2025. All rights reserved.
How can we transcend the harms resulting from standard-fare healthcare, even from within dehumanizing systems?
BOLD practices are how.
Starting from within the tiny daily moments of clinical practice is how.
Systems and policies that reward and support BOLD practices is how.
