In 1991, Mary Rockwood Lane, a nurse friend, and I founded Arts in Medicine (AIM) at Shands Hospital, University of Florida’s (UF), a major North American teaching center. Our goal was to bring artists of every kind into the hospital’s wards and clinics, to offer their myriad arts and crafts to patients and their personal […]
Only rarely do we get to learn where our shadow falls. Here is one of those instances. Dr. John Graham-Pole, pioneer in bone marrow transplants for children and the arts-in-medicine movement, received this surprise email from a patient 38 years on…
On Jan. 11, 2025, Cathy Hassels Monning of Amsterdam, posted on LinkedIn Example2 of 25 in a series of powerful examples of arts and health to start the new year.Example 2 refers to the attending physician for a patient who has sickle cell disease,and to Jill Sonke, former artist-in-residence at University of Florida, Centre for […]
If children being treated for cancer can give themselves a boost of healing humour, then let’s all of us follow their example.
Sally MacKay’s heartfelt, courageous, and often humorous book traces her life as a young girl stricken with poliomyelitis in the late 1940s, before the availability of immunization. Sally speaks of her almost lifelong affliction with polio as being both an adversary and a companion, which defined her life path and molded her character. A life […]
Aboriginal Rock Mural Kimberley Region, Western Australia Posted by John Graham-Pole I don’t have answers to any of these questions, but I can tell you a story. It’s 1960, and I’m entering St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School in the city of London on a quite unlooked for scholarship in Classical languages. It’s true I’ve been […]
https://tryhealingarts.ca/books/the-choreography-of-care/ Behind every book or other publication of HARP The People’s Press is a relationship. HARP’s latest title The Choreography of Care by Stuart Pimsler is no different. The Arts-in-Health movement in North America has kept HARP Publisher John Graham-Pole and Choreographer-Dancer Stuart Pimsler connected for over three decades. This video captures their connection […]
