4 More Reasons You’ll Want to Attend Big Red for the Arts: Live Performances
Here at the Greater Hartford Arts Council, we frequently discuss the significance of the relationship between the arts and a healthy well-being. The arts, for e...
Category: Art & Health
7 Ways the Arts Can Benefit Your Health
Since the dawn of time (or so it seems), our society has been health-crazed. In 2008, Gwyneth Paltrow introduced us to Goop and it seems that since then everyon...
The Science Behind Adult Coloring & 9 Reasons Why We Should Keep the Therapeutic Trend Going
Every year we are exposed to a selection of exciting and innovative trends and 2016 has been no exception. While 2015 brought us the man bun and Adele’s l...
Celebrating Mind & Muscle: When the Olympics Awarded Medals for the Arts
Vancouver. London. Sochi. And now, Rio de Janeiro. Each night, millions have been tuning in to the leading international sporting event featuring the world...
The Health Benefits of Dancing & Where to Dance in Hartford
Dance has a way of letting us lose ourselves in the moment and connect with our bodies in ways that we sometimes forget about after a long day. Everyone has at ...
Art Galleries & Museums to Visit in Greater Hartford
As one of the top ten most artsy states in the country, Connecticut has a plethora of art museums, galleries, and community arts centers just in Greater Hartfor...
Art is Aetna's Healthy
Last year Aetna launched a new campaign asking people “What’s Your Healthy?” to inspire people to make healthier choices when it came to food,...
A Great Day for a 5k
Voya, formerly known as ING, has done it again! For the 7th year, Voya held a 5k run/walk around their Windsor campus to support the Greater Hartford Arts Counc...
Creativity is Key to Workplace Wellness
Now that workplace campaigns are wrapped up for the season, we have some time to research new ideas to revamp our Arts Breaks for the next season. The more I re...
How The Arts = Happiness
Step inside any art museum, say MoMA or the Wadsworth, and the regions of your brain associated with pleasure, memory, emotion, and vision immediately light up ...