Arts to promote mental health goal of new University of Michigan clinical program

ANN ARBOR, MI — Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan Arts Initiative have teamed up to launch Michigan ArtsRx , a new clinical arts initiative to assist the mental health of students, UM affiliates and Ann Arbor residents through arts programming.

Mark Clague, executive director of the UM Arts Initiative, said ArtsRx will invite the community to “participate in artmaking” and health professionals will be able to “recommend arts participation as a non-clinical supplement to other health interventions that members of our community are doing.”

The initiative will have two offerings: a pilot study where health professionals prescribe arts programming to UM students, and a self-prescription service where the larger university and Ann Arbor community can participate in arts event