Arts in
Hospital and
Therapeutic Settings
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General
Hospital
Audiences Inc.
"HAI has provided access to the arts to New Yorkers who are isolated
from the cultural mainstream. HAI service recipients include people with
mental and physical disabilities, mentally retarded/developmentally disabled
persons, bed-confined/wheelchair-users, hearing/sight-impaired persons, the
homeless, the frail elderly, youth at risk, participants in substance abuse
programs, persons with HIV/AIDS and individuals in correctional
facilities."
Smith Farm Center
for the Healing Arts
"Smith Farm is a nonprofit learning and shared-experience center for
the healing arts and sciences, operating in and near Washington, DC. Our goal
is to serve those in this area with the cancer help, health professional
training, and arts-in-healing programs developed over the last twenty years at
Commonweal in California. We do this through week-long residential cancer help
retreats; evening meeting series in the DC area; physician workshops, lectures
and an art program at nearby hospitals; a small library/resource center at our
DC headquarters; and internet information sources listed later on this
website."
Society for the Arts in
Healthcare
"Our membership numbers approximately 400, serving professionals in
the healthcare arts field throughout the U.S. and abroad, including members in
the United Kingdom, Asia, and North and South America."
Visual Arts
The
Arts in Medicine (AIM)
A program at the University of Florida, AIM "is
dedicated to exploring the relationship between the art of creativity and the
art of healing. AIM is committed to using the visual arts as a way of
transforming the medical environment from a sterile, depersonalized setting to
one of color and inspiration."
Article
on Patient Art Programs in Children's Hospitals
This is a very accessible article on a program for children patients in a
particular hospital. The article goes on to discuss the movement in general to
include visual arts programs in children's hospitals.
Foundation for
Hospital Art
Based in Georgia, The Foundation For Hospital Art is a
non-profit organization dedicated to comforting people who suffer in hospitals
by softening the hard walls and ceilings that surround them during their
illness with warm colorful murals painted with the help of volunteers
worldwide. The volunteers include the patients and medical providers
themselves. This is a well organized, inspirational web resource. 
Project on Death in America, Arts
and Humanities Initiative
Transforming the culture of dying - The goal of
transforming the culture and experience of death in America is ambitious and
requires attention to the forms of expression by which illness and death and
the meanings they create take shape. Individuals working in the fields of the
humanities, the fine arts, and the performing arts are giving form through
language and image to the experiences surrounding the end of life. The Project
on Death in America wishes to encourage individuals in the literary, media,
and fine arts as well as the performing arts to use their creative skills and
insights to identify and convey meaning in facing illness, disability, and
death; and to evoke and deepen our understanding of the diverse metaphors that
shape the experiences of suffering, dying, and bereavement. This website
profile fellowship opportunities.
Virtual
Windows
This article from the Houston Business Journal profiles a
company that specializes in the production of virtual windows and vistas for
use in hospitals and medical settings. It is a fascinating article on how art
can be tailored for specific therapeutic settings
Visual AIDS
Strives to increase public awareness of AIDS through the
visual arts, creating programs of exhibitions, events and publications, and
working in partnership with artists, galleries, museums and AIDS
organizations. By mobilizing the visual arts communities, Visual AIDS raises
money to provide direct services to artists living with HIV/AIDS.
Hospital Art Galleries
National
Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver Colorado
This is a nice online gallery. It includes sample artwork
along with narratives from the young artists.
Yale New
Haven Children's Hospital Art Gallery
"This artwork is but a sampling of the "Tales of
Courage" international collection that hangs in the hospital's atrium and
the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. Young people (ages 4-18) from at least
40 countries, including Children's Hospital patients and youngsters from New
Haven's public and private schools, sent art expressing their feelings about
courage. Children from around the world were invited to submit artwork to
celebrate the opening and dedication of the Children's Hospital in 1993."
Writing
Can
Literature Help Future Doctors Get Inside Their Patients' Heads?
The thrust of this short Brown University Alumni Magazine
article is "YES"!
Music
Recordings for
Recovery
"Recordings for
Recovery (R4R) was founded as a non-profit music Library in 1958. R4R was
established to promote the use of music with special populations to enhance
their quality of life.
R4R is a specialized service that provides a unique and broad selection of
musical programs. Persons who are institutionalized, homebound, or otherwise
limited by disabling conditions may be considered eligible for R4R"
