Around the world, artists and others are drawing upon arts to help create a better life. This presentation offers a personal, disciplinary, and inter-disciplinary perspective on the power of arts to promote individual and community well-being. I address these issues through telling three interconnected stories: my own story as an applied and medical ethnomusicologist whose work in multiple countries has focused on understanding and promoting the use of arts to meet local needs; the story of my home discipline ethnomusicology in the context of work on arts and well-being; and the story of arts and humanities programming within the inter- and transdisciplinary space that is Mayo Clinic. In each of these stories, I highlight the blurriness of identities, the simultaneous vulnerability and resilience of individuals and communities, and the need to recognize ongoing power dynamics and to uplift local perspectives and approaches. Finally, I offer some thoughts on how the arts can both reflect and enhance Mayo Clinic’s values, especially the primary value “The Needs of the Patient Come First.”

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