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| This page lists innovative projects that use art to promote health and well being in the healthcare arena. |
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 | Aerobics of the Spirit
This exhibit features the collaborative work between painter Mary Anne Bartley, and poet Emanuel E. Garcia, MD. Together these artists created a dialogue with their work.
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 | Araceli Theater Project
The Araceli Theater Project is a patient-centered program that grew out of the Cancer Awareness, Resources and Education (CARE) program of San Francisco General Hospital, and is directed by experienced professionals with expertise in the fields of drama therapy, the performing arts, psychology, and health education.
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 | Art for Healing Environments
Paintings and murals that reflect the serenity of nature, add color and life to harsh hospital environments, and patients appreciate a visual antidote to their stress.
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 | Art for Hope and Healing by Joan Drescher
The unique and colorful art created by Joan Drescher answers a need to humanize the health care environment and enhance the sense of healing and well-being for patients and care givers.
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 | Art for Life Foundation
A child can go through a chemotherapy treatment while painting ceramics. A family can be soothed at night next to their child's bedside to the sounds of a harp playing nearby. A child can leave from a courthouse for foster care with coloring books and crayons. These are just a few examples of how the Art for Life Foundation brings art to children in healthcare.
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 | Art for Recovery at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion
Art for Recovery brings creativity to the human spirit as expressed by people coping with cancer, AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses.
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 | Art for the Health of It
With presentations through hospitals and health care facilities, these "playshops" and retreats incorporate watercolor and mixed media, along with silk painting, and journaling to promote health and well being in persons suffering from pain, stress, and illness.
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 | Art Heals: Lifting Children's Spirits with Art
Art Heals began as a volunteer project in 1995 when artist Cynthia Gentry started painting murals at a children's hospital in downtown Atlanta, GA.
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 | Art of Elysium
The Art of Elysium is a Los Angeles-based organization, founded in 1997, that encourages artists to dedicate their time and talent to under-served, at risk and hospitalized children whose lives are constantly disrupted by hardship, or chronic and often terminal illness.
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 | Art of Life
Beauty is like the sugar that helps the medicine go down, and that is why the Art Of Life is committed to creating the highest quality works of art in healthcare facilities.
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 | Arts & Healing at the South Carolina Cancer Center
Since 1981 support programs at the South Carolina Cancer Center in Columbia, SC have been using music, drawing and drama to assist cancer patients and their families in coping with the stresses of this disease and its treatment.
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 | ArtWell
ArtWell was set up to help meet the needs of nursing home residents with Alzheimer's and dementia in Holland.
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