Art at the Bedside gathering attention
Often, we find that big things are going on, quietly, within the walls of the Memorial Art Gallery. This piece showed up in the daily Google alerts earlier this week:
Travel Awards 2012: Art at the Bedside: Research on the Healing Potential of the Visual Arts
The subject/submitter of the post is our very own Susan Dodge-Peters Daiss McPherson, Director of Education. The post contains insight and an overview of her research on the healing potential of the Visual Arts, as well as her plans for moving this project and research forward. Hopefully, we can have Susan write a Gallery Buzz post is in the future, but in the meantime, the topic is gathering some attention in the social media world as well. Tweet from this morning:
Posted: June 21st, 2012 under Education.
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Comment from Philip Koch
Time: June 22, 2012, 1:14 pm
I’ve often been saddened by the sterile hallways of the hospitals I’ve seen. Sometimes efforts are made to overcome this and sometimes they’re surprisingly successful.
Formerly from Rochester, I now live in Maryland and in recent years have been involved with two major art acquisition projects for Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Baltimore and the brand new hospital in Hagerstown, MD.
Exactly what the benefits to patients and family members, and on the hospital staff, would be hard to measure in a scientific way. But I know from walking through the halls at these places there is a sense of warmth, surprise and even delight that wasn’t there before.
Life doesn’t stop once you enter the doorway of a hospital. Art on the wall, especially good art, reminds us of that simple fact.
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