Celebrate The Healing Power of Art Salutes These Institutions/ Organizations
Every week we will announce different groups and events that come to our attention. Please visit often and spread the word about these resources.
UCLA Arts and Healing http://uclartsandhealing.net/
The UCLA Arts and Healing program is designed, "To facilitate the use of arts-based tools for mind-body healing in the community as a vehicle for empowerment and transformation. Listed among its strategies: “Affordable, experiential education to enable people to experience the healing power of the arts with an added therapeutic dimension. The process of creative expression reveals unconscious information that can facilitate insight, emotional and physical release, empathy and group support. Use of the arts can also lead to cognitive and physical development as well.”
They also provide, “Networking with health care professionals, mental health professionals, educators, community workers, caregivers, and artists as well as the general public.”
$500,000 Art budget for Orange Regional Medical Center's Pediatric Playroom
The new Orange Regional opened on August 5, 2011. $500,000 was spent on art in various mediums. Pieces of fine art were created by both locally and internationally known artists. Sarah Thompson, art curator for Orange Regional said,"Our goal in this playroom was to try to bring the outside in, to make it enjoyable as well as healing. Here (the children) can play, have fun, and get lost in their own little world built from their imagination."
Thompson spent the past two and a half years searching for pieces to soften the feel of the hospital, as well as tie in recognizable images, such as landscapes of the region, that patients and visitors can relate to and which put them more at ease. Thompson plans to continue and grow the hospital's art program. She is working with the Wallkill River School and the Orange County Arts Council to host bimonthly art shows in the public corridor near the hospital's new cafeteria to showcase works by local artists. Read more at http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110815/BIZ/108150310
Discovery Arts http://www.discoveryarts.org/
This 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that brings the healing power of the arts to children with cancer, serious blood disorders and life threatening illness while they are in the hospital receiving treatment. Its "Arts Adventures" activities bring smiles, laughter, comfort and hope to these often forgotten children. Discovery Arts helps these children step outside the confines of their illness and into the world of creativity and imagination. Children with cancer have enormous emotional needs, they need a safe place to express their feelings, they need relief from the pain and chaos of critical treatments and they desperately need creativity, fun and as much normalcy as possible."
University of Arizona Art Show http://opa.ahsc.arizona.edu/newsroom/news/2011/%E2%80%9Cstrong-minds-healing-hands-compassionate-hearts%E2%80%9D-art-show-aug-22-sept-9-and-fund
“Strong Minds, Healing Hands, Compassionate Hearts” – an art show, Aug. 22-Sept. 9, with a Fundraising Dinner/Auction, Sept. 9. This exhibition will celebrate more than 40 years of supporting the development of health-care professionals by the Office of Outreach and Multicultural Affairs (OMA) at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson and Phoenix. The events are presented by the OMA Community Advisory Board.
The UA plays a vital role in preparing doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health-care professionals to meet the needs of our community and more.
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