2024 Session Information
FEATURING
Plenery Panel Discussion with Co-Author of:
“Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us”

Susan Magsamen, Founder and Executive Director
International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM Lab)
For more information on Susan Magsamen, please visit www.prhspeakers.com
ADDITIONAL BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Harnessing Arts Education to Meet a District’s Vision of a Graduate
Why is arts education an important and necessary component of a district’s success? What distinct goals does its delivery meet, and how can it be capitalized to meet the greater needs of a district? In 2018, Portland Public Schools began the strategic planning process to launch a major academic initiative called the Master Arts Education Plan (MAEP). The central goal of the MAEP is to increase equitable access to high-quality arts education in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts for all students. Across the nation, arts experience may differ greatly for students based on zip code. As an equity initiative, the MAEP lays the groundwork for an early arts education that includes fully-formed K-12 pathways through which students can continue to receive a coherent, thoughtfully planned, and equitable arts education. Participants will learn important steps and strategies that support districts in incorporating the arts to attain comprehensive goals around student engagement and achievement. District leaders and arts organization partners can utilize this approach to ensure alignment and cohesion linked to a district’s vision, mission, values, and resources.
PRESENTER

Kristen Brayson, Director of Visual & Performing Arts
Portland Public Schools (Portland, OR)
MUSC Arts in Healing’s Clinical Art Therapy Initiative: A Creative Approach to Group Therapy for South Carolina Students
In the fall of 2021, experts in pediatric medicine and psychiatry declared a national emergency in children’s mental health, urging organizations to put in place community-based systems of care, connecting families to school-based care. The US Surgeon General issued a similar statement in December 2021 and gave action points on how corporations, healthcare organizations, and the community can support the school as a critical hub for mental health resiliency through promotion of prevention and treatment interventions. This is where MUSC Arts in Healing stepped in, creating the Clinical Art Therapy Initiative (CATI) alongside district leads, principals, teachers, and MTSS teams to creatively care for the needs of our students in schools across South Carolina. Over the last year, CATI’s team of board-certified art therapists have served more than 680 students across the state, proving that when words are hard to find, artmaking can be a tool for healing a resiliency.
PRESENTERS

Katie Hinson Sullivan, Art Therapist
Arts in Healing Department at MUSC Health

Michelle Robinson, Program Coordinator
Arts in Healing Department at MUSC health
COMING SOON
We will be adding additional sessions as presenters confirm.