NEKO HEALTH

Healing with art: The mission of U.S. nonprofit organization RxART is to help children get well through the power of visual art. It commissions contemporary artists to transform children’s hospitals into more imaginative, colorful and positive places of healing with projects like the “Trees for Children” mural by Nicolas Party at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (pictured). It’s a win-win initiative for everybody involved: The hospitals don’t have to pay anything, the artists receive an honorarium and visibility, and the little patients no longer have to stare at bare walls. New York gallery owner Diane Brown founded RxART in the firm belief that art has the ability to transform both its surroundings and its viewers. More than 58 projects have already been completed and had reached more than 3.3 million young patients as of 2022.