Arts for Everybody - One Nation, One Project

Clyde Valentín is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and cultural producer. With a passion for exploring the intersections of art, technology and social justice, Valentin has created numerous exhibitions and programs that challenge traditional boundaries. Most recently, he co-led the Arts for Everybody campaign, establishing cross-sector bridges between arts, health, and government groups, convening arts programs from across the US.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center

Working at the intersections of arts and health, Alyson Maier-Lokuta works to integrate creative practices as positive health behaviors. She is Assistant VP, Arts & Wellbeing at NJPAC, a New Jersey Performing Arts center which piloted one of the nation’s first social prescribing programs in partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield. As passionate about data as she is about the arts (and arts as data), Aly combines evidence-based practice with creative and innovative approaches.

Arab Institute, Paris

Nathalie Bondil, a French-Canadian Art Historian and Curator, pioneered the concept of “museotherapy” to reframe the role of the museum in individual and community wellness through a continuum of engagement in the arts while serving as director general and chief curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Bondil was instrumental in bringing the world’s first museum and healthcare-partnered social prescribing program in Quebec, where doctors could prescribe free museum visits as a means of helping improve their patient’s mental and physical health.

National League of Cities

Georgia Gempler is Program Manager of Health & Wellbeing at the National League of Cities (NLC). In this role, Georgia focuses on the intersection of art and public health, working with local governments to achieve their public health goals in partnership with artists. She helps local policymakers work towards improved community and individual wellbeing through policy and systems changes. Cross-sector partnerships and building participatory practices are her specialty.

University of Kansas Medical Center

Rebecca Lepping is a cognitive neuroscientist, music psychologist, and musician with more than 15 years of experience in MRI research, specializing in MRI and functional MRI methodology. As a Research Assistant Professor, Neurology at KU Medical Center, Rebecca’s research interest is in affective neuroscience, specifically the intersection of music, emotion-processing, and decision-making.

University of Florida - Center for Arts and Medicine

Nicole Morgan is the Research Manager for the UF Center for Arts in Medicine. She currently manages research conducted within the CAM Interdisciplinary Lab, the EpiArts lab, and the One Nation, and the One Project Research and Impact Lab. Her research interests include the arts in public health, as well as the connection between aesthetic experiences, community connection and wellbeing.