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Healing Art Program

Art is powerful medicine for the world

Since our last newsletter, the TMC Healing Art Program helped enhance three new TMC spaces: The Joel M. Childers, M.D. Women’s Center, the TMC Rincon Health Campus at Houghton and Drexel, and the TMC Breast Imaging Center on the TMC campus.

In each, photography was carefully chosen to appeal to the staff and patients. The Women’s Center is filled with the dreamy, feminine zen works of Sonya van Buuren; the Rincon campus features Southern Arizona photographers Gregory Cranwell, Neal Lutyens and Bill Steen; and the Women’s Breast Center has international scenes from our worldtraveling photographers Dominic Bonuccelli, Ed Warner, Steve Dell, John Perry, and Leonard Thurman.

As always, these photographers allow the Healing Art Program to use their images for no fee – an extraordinarily generous gift that TMC is grateful to receive.

Sonya van Buuren art, Women’s Center

Gregory Cranwell photo Rincon Building

Historical photo of Vail train depot Rincon Building Dominic Bonuccelli photos, TMC Women’s Imaging Center

Bill Steen photo, Rincon Building

John Perry photo, TMC Women’s Imaging Center

Other recent projects include a re-vamp of the TMC Geropsychiatric space with floral photographs; and new art for the Vascular Lab, Ultrasound, and Neurology departments. Several outpatient offices have been improved including the TMCOne and rheumatology spaces in the TMC Medical Park and a brand new TMCOne facility at Oracle and Ina.

The main campus is getting new works in the coming months. We’re going to spruce up the Northeast Entrance, and install a suite of photographs coming to us from The Museum Project – a special donation of works by nationally known photographers. And speaking of improved spaces, be sure to check out Ferguson Hall, where ten paintings of underwater creatures by artist David Andres are a bright oasis in a long hallway. While you’re visiting, look at the frames – they seem to be made of the rusted iron of an old, sunken ship.

D nor update

Recent donors to the TMC Healing Art Program include: Bert Falbaum and Judge Margaret Houghton, Mark Rubin, the Donald Shropshire Estate, the family of Dr. J. Dawson Burns, Stuart and Melody Johnson, Harriet Silverman, Michael and Delores (Bunny) Westergreen, Doris and Len Coris and Joseph Skarry.

Artists who’ve recently donated work include: Dr. Ron Goodsite, Bart Marcy, Lynette Jennings, Peggy Mory, Wes Jernigan, Dr. Hugh Thompson, Pam Knight, Michael Kloth, Julie Jenkins, Galen Evans, Ed Warner, and The Museum Project photographers: Barry Andersen, Darryl Curran, Robert Fichter, Kenda North, Michael Stone, Robert von Sternberg, Nancy Webber and the Todd Walker Estate.

We had some special financial donations as well, from Howard and Marlies Terpning, Doris and Len Coris and Jacquelyn and Ron Feller.

As always, we are truly grateful

Artwork by David Andres, Ferguson Hall

Patient and Staff Reactions

by the Healing Art Program:

I want to thank you so much for sending David Pavlovich to play for my wife. I was fortunate enough to be in the room when David played his harp. He was wonderful and truly helped her get through the day. He played for about a half hour and we talked a little music as well.

From Robert Henderson, Professor Emeritus at the UA School of Anthropology, commenting on Gustave Hulkower’s decoupage of desert plants located in the CNIS waiting room:

As a cultural anthropologist whose early graduate training included working with native peoples of the historic southwest, I realized when I observed [this work of art] that my feelings while gazing into the material were the kind of experience people of the Navajo nation would call “Walking in Beauty” (they use the native term “hozho,” I think, to summarize this goal of their religious experience). I found I was doing that, and feeling more and more peaceful (my dying friend was not far away at the time).

Spotlight on the TMC Medical Musicians New Programs

We are excited to announce that two new programs started this summer. Public art tours – the first of which was held July 10 – with another scheduled for Monday, Aug. 28 at 10 a.m. The group meets at the Southeast hospital entrance at the Joel M. Childers, M.D. Women’s Center. The tour involves up to a mile of indoor walking with rest stops along the way. Expect the tour to take about an hour and a half. Space is limited, but extra tours can be arranged based on popularity. A regular schedule is planned for the fall.

We have also instituted Visual Thinking Strategies to TMC physicians during orientation week. This program, which engages art to improve observation and communication skills, is used at some of the best medical schools in the country. Plans to bring this to the clinical staff are developing. This is a great way to have fun and build camaraderie among colleagues.

TMC’s four medical musicians are always busy! As part of the Cerulean Trio, Ivan Ugorich has recently played at Carnegie Hall and will be participating in a prestigious chamber music series in Utah.

Eduardo Minozzi Costa, who is also an alumnus of Carnegie Hall, will perform at the South Bay Guitar Society on Oct. 14.

Both of our harpists get away during the summer –Adrienne Lewy and her husband escape the heat in Pine Top whenever possible, while David Pavlovich heads to California, where he plays at wineries and at small musical festivals, while promoting his book, Music in Hospitals.