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Local Artists Expand Community Programming

Arts in Medicine is excited to welcome four visiting artists for a short-term residency with our program. The cohort has expanded arts-based programming to the Gainesville and Alachua County community through visual artmaking, storytelling, and dance to make the arts more accessible to our community! Click a card below to…

Closed: Arts in Medicine Practitioners

Applications are now closed. Future openings with the Arts in Medicine program will be shared on our website and on our social media accounts. Instagram: @shandsaim Facebook: Facebook.com/ShandsArtsinMedicine Join our team! The…

Registration is open for the 2027 Arts in Health Intensive

About the Intensive Join us in Gainesville, Florida, January 26–29, 2027, for an immersive learning experience designed to connect artists, health professionals, researchers, educators, administrators and community leaders who are shaping the future of arts in health. This year we will be adding an optional Dance in Health Workshop onto…

Visual art-making at OB/GYN Mobile Outreach Clinic

Make art while you wait for your appointment at the UF Health OB/GYN Mobile Outreach Clinic! This limited workshop series will take place at Gainesville and Trenton locations. Art activities and materials are free to participants and open to Mobile Outreach Clinic patients and their loved ones/caregivers. No registration required.

New mosaic workshop series for seniors

Registration is Full This workshop series is closed for registration due to high interest and limited seating. A waitlist has been created in case spots open up.Questions? Email Whitney Wilson (whitney.wilson@ufhealth.org)…

Harn Museum’s “Art After Dark” event showcases AIM practitioners

On Thursday, June 25th, Arts in Medicine (AIM) dancers and musicians will take center stage at the popular “Art After Dark” event hosted at the Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, FL. Performing an original dance first featured at the recent Creating Healthy Communities: A Florida Arts in Health…

Hand-drumming for Adult ED Staff

UF Health staff who work in the Adult Emergency Department, this workshop is for you!  Whether you serve the ED as a nurse, patient ambassador, physician, security officer, paramedic, imaging technician, environmental services staff member, and anyone else we may have missed… we hope you will Arts in Medicine for…

I Am…Warrior: Pop-up Poetry and Art Gallery

Join UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine and Streetlight for this week’s art pop-up, “I Am… Warrior” Featuring a special poetry book written by Sickle Cell Warriors at UF Health that honor their real, lived experiences living with sickle cell. Also on display will be artworks made in response…

“Creative Connections” debuts on the hematology/oncology unit

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…