Lab Co-hosts Caucus before White House Summit

Jameel Arts & Health Lab Co-Hosts Caucus before White House Event

On January 29, the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, established as a collaboration between NYU Steinhardt, Culturunners, Community Jameel, and the World Health Organization, co-hosted an Arts & Health Pre-Summit Caucus at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The event was a precursor to the “Healing, Bridging, Thriving: A Summit on Arts and Culture in our Communities” conference on January 30, which was hosted by the NEA and the White House Domestic Policy Council. 

The Pre-Summit Caucus and the daylong arts and culture conference followed an executive order made by President Joe Biden stating that the arts are “essential to the well-being, health, vitality, and democracy of our Nation.” The summit introduced a Presidential interagency task force to effectively integrate arts across ten federal departments and agencies.