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Art is powerful medicine for the world
As we enter our fifth year, there is a lot to celebrate. A total of 884 works of art have been installed at TMC – and our goal is to break 1000 in 2018. We’re on track to add a fifth medical musician this year, which will bring more joy and comfort to patients and staff.
We completed a survey of artworks on the fourth floor of the orthopaedic tower with the help of our first public-health intern, the wonderful Max Verdugo. The survey results will help us identify the artwork that most effectively impact patients.
We provided Visual Thinking Strategies classes to both doctors and clinical staff, and plan to make more classes available in the future. In addition, TMC public art tours have been full and will continue to be offered once a month.
A pilot research project will be launched in the first quarter of 2018 to determine if Arizona landscape images combined with classical music can reduce anxiety and pain for patients.
This year, the Healing Art Program will hold its first official fundraiser, a photography exhibition planned for the gallery space at the Temple
of Music and Art. Further details on the fundraiser will be available soon.
In short, we have been busy! The accomplishments we achieved this year would not have been possible without your support. Thank you, as always, for your generous financial support and donation of art, music and your time. The patients, families, and staff at TMC frequently tell us how grateful they are for the Healing Art Program.
by Lauren Rabb, Curator, TMC Healing Art Program | Winter 2018
D nor update
Doris and Len Coris, the founders of the TMC Healing Art Program, recently gifted a large group of outdoor sculptures to TMC. Installation will take place in the coming months – so look for new embellishments on campus.
A large collection of artworks came from Bruce and Edythe Gissing as well. Other recent donors of art include Drs. Mark and Kathleen Sublette, Katharina Phillips and Sheldon L. Trubatch, and the Melinda Tharan Trust.
Artists who donated their work include Frederick Hambly, Bart Marcy, Eva Murzaite, Ric Nielsen, and Martin Soto. We are so thankful for their gifts.
We also have a promised gift of the entire Tucson Portrait Stories series by artist Lauri Kaye. If you are not familiar with this local favorite, check out her website at www.createforthepeople.com.
The list of renowned photographers who generously donate the use of their images has grown too! Since our last newsletter, TMC installed photos taken by BG Boyd, Susan Drew, Kathy Krucker, Roseann Milano, Niccole Celeste Radhe, David Sanders, Robert Brian (Bobby) Shoots, and Bridget Stephenson.
The generosity of the financial donors is most appreciated and so important to the program. Thoughtful gifts were received from Len and Doris Coris, Marla Endicott, Jacquelyn and Ron Feller, Jerry Freund, Sandy Helton, Ann Holt, Dr. and Mrs. Lou Lancero, Kathy Neff, Mark Rubin, Gary and Jill Sisson, Rica and Harvey Spivack, Howard and Marlies Terpning, and John Wells. Donations were also received from the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Research Corporation and the Tucson Hospitals Medical Education Program, Inc.
Ann Mance Indian Camp painting in cardiac waiting room David Sanders photos in the Cardiac Rehab Gym at the El Dorado Health Campus
New images in the Vascular Lab lobby
Amy Cordova in Unit 750 waiting room
A Galen Evans photo of his dog Bumble in a pediatric patient room at TMC
Patient and Staff Reactions Highlighted installations
David Pavlovich, one of our two harpists, received a stack of thank you cards from staff members this year. Here’s an example of typical sentiments:
From “first-hand” info, your music is much appreciated here in TMC Labor & Delivery. You have brought so much joy and happiness to all of our patients and their families, including most of our staff. Your sounds are very soothing and relaxing – not a bit annoying, offensive or distractive. Please keep “harping” on us!
Ivan Ugorich, our violinist, is passionate about being one of the performing artists with the TMC Healing Art Program. He shared his experience: It’s especially enriching to interact with attentive patients that sometimes even help themselves out of their rooms to observe the performance. Some listen and watch through the whole set and are touched or even moved to tears. It seems the live music consoles what they or their loved ones are going through. During a recent performance, an elderly woman who was recovering from surgery was helped up by her family to approach and watch me as I played.
She was moved, remarking: “Can you believe it...what other hospital does such an amazing thing?”
Many of you will remember that we installed an awesome selection of photographs in Shropshire Hall. Since the summer we were able to add to the photographs, and the hall now includes works by Gregory Cranwell, Steve Dell, Marla Endicott, Bill Steen, and Ed Warner.
These photographs complement works by Dominic Bonuccelli, Alaina Chapin, Larry Hanelin, Leslie Leathers, John Perry, Jen Ryder, Kathy Shogren, and Sonja Van Buuren. With our growing list of active photographers, look for more stunning images to be installed in TMC’s hallways in the months to come.
Fans of the hummingbird patio in Mason Hall will notice that the photographs on the didactic panel were updated and replaced this summer. The new images of hummingbirds were taken by Leslie Leathers and Eric Suhm.
Two off-campus buildings that received artworks were the cardiac gym on the El Dorado campus, and TMCOne on Rita Road. In addition, new artwork was added to unit 700, unit 900, the Emergency Department and the Labor and Delivery simulation training area. Already in the planning stages, are works for unit 850, the Swallow Study Lab, and the off-campus sleep lab.
Gregory Cranwell photos in Shropshire Hall
Bill Steen and Sonja Van Buuren photos in the Ultrasound department
