Learn how to impactfully engage and partner with artists within municipal space.

Learn about how the arts can be a powerful tool in healthcare.

This report summarizes case studies of three ONOP cities that worked to develop arts prescribing programs as a way of making local arts, cultural, nature, and social resources available for the health and well-being of community members. 

Explore the Arts For EveryBody Zine and learn more about the arts and health connection.

Learn from ONOP artists, leaders and public health experts about how they are using art to transform society. Narrated by the award-winning spoken word, performer, writer and librettist, Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

This research brief summarizes a study examining how arts participation can build social cohesion and enhance well-being in communities, presenting key findings from an integrative literature review and introducing a conceptual model that illustrates the relationships between arts participation, social cohesion, and well-being.

In 2022 and 2023, One Nation/One Project leaders conducted site visits in nine communities, using sensory exercises to create data poems that reflect each community's unique characteristics, grounding their research in the experiences of community members.

The research brief by One Nation/One Project proposes a new, inclusive definition for "arts participation" to enhance public health research by considering a wide range of artistic and creative practices across different communities.

Arts on Prescription: A Field Guide for US Communities offers a roadmap for communities to develop programs that formally integrate arts, culture, and nature resources into local health and social care systems. This guide has been created in partnership between Mass Cultural Council, University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine, and Dr. Tasha Golden.

Art-Train is a virtual technical assistance program for artists, municipal agencies, and community-focused organizations in all sectors and in communities of all sizes across the nation.

The Arts Impact Explorer is an advocacy case-making tool created by Americans for the Arts to educate local decision-makers about the social, cultural, educational, and economic impact of Arts and Culture in building healthy and vibrant communities.

Local governments can partner with artists to create healthier, more equitable communities. Learn more about how municipalities and artists can work together in this interactive tool created by A Blade of Grass and Animating Democracy.