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…
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…
UF Health Gainesville nurses were invited to team up and create a collage inspired by the national Nurses Week theme,“On Purpose”. Using only the materials in the art kits supplied by Arts in Medicine, each participating unit were tasked with designing their artwork with one or both of these ideas…
Registration is open for Creating Healthy Communities: A Florida Arts in Health Forum. A one-day gathering featuring key takeaways from the recent Creating Healthy Communities Convening at NJPAC. We’ll spotlight the latest in arts in health across Florida, with a special focus on arts prescribing. If you’re a Florida-based artist…
Arts in Medicine and GROW HUB have partnered to offer FREE artmaking workshops for adults in the disability community and their caregivers! These once-monthly workshops will be held every first Tuesday from 11AM – 12PM at GROW HUB (2900 NE 8th Ave) Offered in a socially inclusive setting,…
The in-person weekly Dance for Life classes are moving to a new location as of January 8th. Join us from 10-11am each Thursday at the Senior Recreation Center for a dance and movement workshop for those with movement and neuromuscular disorders such as Parkinson’s, Multiple sclerosis, ALS, or dystonia. The…
The following Arts in Medicine classes are cancelled: Dance for Life online and in-person will be cancelled on the following dates: 12/24, 12/25, 12/31, and 1/1 StorySongs is cancelled on 12/22 and 12/29 Encore Dancers Workshop is cancelled on 12/25 and 1/1 Dance for Joy is cancelled on…
An art break during an ED nursing shift?It sounds a bit unbelievable.ED nurses and staff are some of the busiest healthcare workers around. And rightly so. They provide care for patients facing some of life’s most difficult moments and must be fast-acting and quick-thinking in the…
Join Arts in Medicine and visual and comic artist Terrence Ho for the opening reception of the art exhibit “Drawing While Being Drawn.” The exhibit features a number of drawings and sketches made during Terrence’s many treatments and procedures at multiple UF Health clinics. “I am…
Join Arts in Medicine for a special poetry workshop open to adults ages 18 and up, no prior art or poetry experience needed. Description: An introduction to ekphrasis – writing a poem in response to viewing a visual work of art – including time to view Arts in Medicine’s current…
