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Liminal Bell installed at UF Health
UF Health‘s newest art installation creates ceremony around the completion of patients’ cancer treatment. Tina Mullen, Director of UF Health Arts in Medicine, recruited Gainesville artist Alexis Dold to design and construct the piece housed at the UF Health Davis Cancer Pavillion. The Liminal Bell, derived from the Latin word…
Khandice’s Story featured on GTN News
The UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine program provided a reliable space for creative expression during Khandice Long’s hospital stay. Khandice used visual art, writing, and music to cope with her hospitalization and develop emotional resiliency through the arts during a difficult time in her life. She worked with many…
Program Spotlight: Music in Me
Each Monday afternoon what might be described as a cacophony of joy is heard coming from the pediatric playroom at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital. Thanks to musician and music educator, David Ford of Tonewood Family Music, Inc., patients of all ages and their families are invited to sing,…
AIM hosted two UF 2014 International Piano Festival performances
The University of Florida International Piano Festival (UFIPF), sponsored by the University of Florida (UF), UF School of Music, UF Office of Research, UF Health, Visit Gainesville and Hoggtowne Music, was held June 14-21, 2014 at UF in the Music Building, Room 101. UFIPF assembles outstanding college and pre-college pianists…
UF’s Center for AIM and School of Theatre and Dance present Dance for PD Training Workshop
The University of Florida (UF) Center for Arts in Medicine and the School of the Theatre and Dance in partnership with the Mark Morris Dance Group and Brooklyn Parkinson Group will present Dance for PD, a three-day training and professional development for dancers, dance teachers, students, therapists, and allied health…
Celebrate Children’s Mental Health Awareness Month
The Arts Therapies in Arts in Medicine is one of the 1,100 organizations across the country celebrating Children’s Mental Health Awareness Month this May. Arts in Medicine is partnering up with the Eating Disorder Recovery Center, Psychiatry, Psychology, Child Life and Social Work to bring awareness at UF Health.
2,000 reasons to call this girl Brave
A mobile of nearly 2,000 Bravery Beads displays AnnaRose’s courage and resilience while she waited for her heart transplant. Arts in Medicine helped transform the individual strands into a work of art she will always remember. A collaboration between an Art Therapist, Artist in Residence, and Guest…
A legacy marked with a (master)piece of graffiti
When people describe Greg Nelams most people say, he was positive, he had a hip-hop style, and he could really draw! Art therapist, Amy Bucciarelli, worked with Greg during his hospitalization to help him express his experience and cope with hospitalization through the media he loved –…
Mysteries of Squish Art
UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine is pleased to showcase original works by patient, Barron Chappell, in the South Tower, Criser Cancer Resource gallery, Room 1302. The exhibit will be on display April 7-30, 2014, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. “I wanted to…
