Art with a Heart in Healthcare
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Art with a Heart Exhibit Child Patient's Art at MOCA
River City Live | News 4 Jax
For more than two decades, Art with a Heart in Healthcare has been dedicated to serving Greater Jacksonville and its surrounding communities by providing a fine art experience that enhances the healing process for patients and their families.
'The Power Within': MOCA Jacksonville to display Wolfson Children's Hospital patient art
Florida Times Union
Inspiring artwork created by 16 young patients at Wolfson Children's Hospital — including one who painted herself and her baby sister using a magical rainbow-radiating baton — will soon be on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville.
MOCA Jacksonville Hosts 12th Year of What Lifts You Up Featuring the Work of 16 Young Patient Artists – Action News Jax
Local Today
MOCA Jacksonville is pleased to announce the new What Lifts You Up exhibit in partnership with Art with a Heart in Healthcare. The exhibition can be seen from September 11 at 2 p.m. to January 8, 2023.
Work of 16 young patient artists on exhibit AWAHIH, MOCA story
Ponte Vedra Recorder
The teams at Art with a Heart in
Healthcare and MOCA Jacksonville work
together each year to develop a unique patient art exhibition based on a prompt or
question that inspires imagination, artistry
and individual expression among young
patients, who work under the guidance of
an artist-in-residence.
Beaches event celebrates arts, area artists
Sold-out gathering raises money for First Coast Cultural Center
Ponte Vedra Recorder
The winner of the Community Impact Award was Art With a Heart in Healthcare, which provides personalized fine art experiences that enhance the healing process for patients and their families.
Groups like Art With a Heart need your support
The Florida Times-Union
At a time when media is quick to point out numbers of COVID-19 patients and challenges that this pandemic has cost every industry in this country – and the world – now is the time to take a moment to
pause and be grateful for organizations like Art With a Heart in Healthcare. It’s an organization that focuses on one number at a time: the individual patient they’re trying to bring a smile to.
Paintings created by Art with a Heart in Healthcare artists for Nemours Children’s Health System features new program
Ponte Vedra Recorder
Art with a Heart in Healthcare artists-in-residence and volunteers Dylan Bauer, Teresa Graham, Lisa Miyares, Brooke McKinney, Matt Richards and Jill Swanson created more than 20 paintings for the project which are in 16 exam rooms, and treatment and triage areas in the children’s pulmonology unit.
STORIES OF PANDEMIC PIVOTS IN ST. AUGUSTINE
St. Augustine Social
“Art with a Heart in Healthcare has needed to pivot to a virtual art sessions to continue to work with the patients and families in the hospital setting. Our artists have made more than 60 art videos and 100’s of coloring sheets for our patients and families to take part in. Everyone needs art right now!” – Christy Ponder
The Mett Family of Yulee Donates to Art with a Heart in Healthcare
St. Augustine Social
Art with a Heart in Healthcare has received its annual donation of funds and art supplies from the Mett family of Yulee, Fla. Since 2012, Shannel Mett and her family celebrate their son Kaylum Dean Anthony Frank’s life and preserve his legacy by giving back to the organization. Their donation will be used in countless future art sessions with hospitalized children.
Nonprofit Art with a Heart in Healthcare helps children battle illness through virtual art projects amid the coronavirus pandemic
Action News Jax
A local nonprofit is making sure that children battling an illness inside a hospital get the tools they need to find their inner artist. Even though the artist behind Art with a Heart in Healthcare can't meet in person, the organization is helping children heal during the pandemic.
Nonprofit Arts in Medicine Organization Provides Patients with Art Supplies...
National Organization for Arts in Health
Art with a Heart in Healthcare (AWAHIH) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to arts and healing. Six days a week, AWAHIH’s team of Artists-in-Residence, volunteers, and interns provide personalized, fine art sessions to patients and their families at the hospital bedside, in outpatient clinic waiting rooms, and in inpatient hospital playrooms.
AWAHIH offers free virtual art sessions for Children
The St. Augustine Record
The Let’s Make Art program supports the need for creative activities while young patients are sheltering-in-place at home or in the hospital during the COVID 19 pandemic, and other times when they need to stay indoors.The online art program and art-to-go care bag projects are in place providing fine art experiences while enhancing the healing process for homebound children, and patients and families in the hospital.
Animal-Gamation: Art with a Heart in Healthcare at MOCA
Arbus Magazine
For this exhibition, each artist started with a question "If you could create your own animal, what would it look like?" In answering, each patient rendered his or her own unique artwork, exploring their personalities, stories, and identities in an animal form on collaged canvas.
Annual art exhibition features works by young patients
Circles Charity Register
Raven, 18-year-old patient, worked with Art With a Heart in Healthcare (AWAHIH) program at Wolfson, during which an artist worked one-on-one with him to help him outwardly express his inner traits by channeling his creativity into a collage on canvas.
