NYU Drama Therapy faculty and licensed Creative Arts Therapist Heidi Landis, is calling for “City Council and the Adams Administration [to] prioritize students and their mental health by guaranteeing adequate funding per student for the arts.”
Recognizing the relationship between the arts and wellbeing, she writes “The arts are a form of embodied play that surpasses verbal processing and allows us to explore, connect with ourselves and others, and ultimately build or rebuild the muscles of imagination when life circumstances or the experience of trauma has taken them away.”