Receiving care for cancer can be a lonely and isolating experience.
For an opportunity to pause and connect, Arts in Medicine is now offering a weekly art-making workshop to the patients, care partners, and staff on the UF Health Cancer Hospital’s hematology/oncology unit.
Creative Connections is a free visual art workshop led by Ali Irrizary. As Arts in Medicine’s administrative specialist and a visual artist herself, Ali also brings a past history of having worked on the hematology/oncology unit here at UF Health!
This week, Ali led Shehrzad, or “Sherri”, through a rock painting activity during her stay on the unit. Sherri was joined in the workshop by her nurse Michelle, RN, as well as Sherri’s patient care assistant Louise. The three chatted as they painted and walked away feeling “uplifted by the experience”.
