Amaeyzing Visionary Award

Amaeyzing Visionary Award Recipients

The annual Amaeyzing Visionary Award recognizes an organization or individuals demonstrating exemplary leadership and innovation toward expanding possibilities for healing through art.
2024 – Social Prescribing USA

2024 – Social Prescribing USA

Social Prescribing USA’s transformative work recognizes that health is not just confined to treatment rooms and that prescriptions extend beyond pills. The organization engages clinical teams and policymakers to forge a pathway to integrate wellness practices into the clinical treatment of disease. Imagine a patient is handed a prescription for a healing art workshop or a music class. They create a bridge between wellness and clinical treatment, empowering Kids & Art to harness the potency of creative art to ease pediatric patients’ anxiety, strengthen family bonds, and build community. 
2023 – Ivy Ross and Susan Magsaman

2023 – Ivy Ross and Susan Magsaman

In 2023, our first Amaeyzing Visionary Award goes to co-authors Ivy Ross (VP Hardware Design, Google) and Susan Magsamen (Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab, John Hopkins University) for their groundbreaking book, “Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us,” and their work with NeuroArts Blueprint. Ivy and Susan work at the crossroads of arts and sciences, sharing and using the growing body of evidence — from neuroscience, psychology, public health, social sciences, the arts and other fields — that are proving the arts’ generative impact. Their book is an authoritative guide to the new science of neuroaesthetics, weaving a vibrant tapestry of breakthrough research, insights from multidisciplinary pioneers, and compelling stories from people who are using the arts to make a positive impact. Their work is a call-to-arms for the radical integration of the arts with science and technology to design a more humane future. It powerfully aligns with Kids & Art’s mission to ensure that art is included as a prescriptive modality in a patient’s treatment and healing journey.