KT

Ellen Kahn

Laura Ferguson

Raph & Keriann

NYC Sotheby's

Fascinating symposium put on by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Society for Arts in Healthcare. It was held at Sotheby's auction house, 160 people in attendance, from all over the nation, Canada, England and Japan.

I was on the panel presenting Three Models of Arts in Healthcare Programs. Along with, Gerry Herbert, founder of the Creative Center Arts for People with Cancer.

And Donna Glassford presenting Vanderbilt's program, which has in its collection such luminaries as
Jim Dine, Dale Chihuly, Frank Stella .

Blair Sadler CEO of San Diego Children's Hospital spoke on New Evidence in Architecture, Art and Healing.

Roger Ulrich gave a overview of Research on Art and Healing. To my mind he had silly examples of what is inappropriate in a patient's room; snakes, grotesque figures, ugly abstractions. Which skewes his results - that only sunny landscapes and smiling people are healing images.

NYC

Thursday night Dr. and Mrs. Jacobson hosted a lovely dinner for the speakers at Aureole Restaurant.

I sat next to Jan Mittan executive director of the Children's Hospital Foundation at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital, Westchester Medical Center. (web site here) Had great fun sharing art stories and trying to get her husband to misbehave for the blog.

Vanderbilt owns a Frank Stella sculpture so amazingly he was at the dinner.

KT's new picture

VCCA last day

VCCA day Twenty-three

all ready for my open studio

VCCA day Twenty-one