Laughter isn’t always the best medicine – art is. From a hospital room, a piano bench, a barn, or a dance floor, this episode of ARTS. WORK. LIFE. is about how art can heal someone, body and soul. Featuring a music therapist who helped a paralyzed teenager write his way back to hope, a farmer-turned-musician who used songwriting as a lifeline through grief, a dancer who learned to finally listen to her body, and a performer who discovered that their neurodivergence wasn't a barrier but a breakthrough. These are stories about what the arts can do that nothing else can.

Julián Silva - "Home Run"

Azadi Amaan - "Striking A Chord"

Jeff Corle - "Empty Barns, Not Empty Hearts"

Maura Garcia - "Body Signals" (Music included in this segment is "Rhizome" by Mark Gabriel Little)

Performing artists and arts workers are essential, and more than ever, it's important that the world understand what it's like to work in the performing arts. Hear the bold, untold personal stories from behind the scenes. Produced by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals and made possible with support from the Wallace Foundation.

Learn more at apap365.org.