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Toronto General Hospital Nurse’s Plastic Collection Transformed into Mural

This nurse spent 28 years collecting bits of plastic from disposable supplies that were used on patients. Read more about it here!

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Creating Background Pages

Use watercolor or acrylic paints and prepare at least 3 pages using one or more of the following methods: Paint a page a single color....

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Orientation - 9 August 2017

Theme: Engaging with Art to Enhance Patient Care Skills In this session, participants were given an introduction to the program of Art in...

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The Artwork of David Tineo

On Display Feb 13 – August, 2017 David Tineo is a globally recognized painter and muralist whose bold, colorful works bring the myths,...

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From House Calls to Hospitals

Practicing medicine in Tempe has radically changed since the late 19th century. Early Arizona had no hospitals. Doctors had home offices...

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Starting a New Art Journal

Art journaling is the creative process of pulling together color, words and images as a way to express yourself, experiment, play and...

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Visual Memory and Value

May 3, 2017 “A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world...

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PhoenixMed: New Program Uses Creative Expression to Improve Care of Patients with Dementia

Creativity in Eldercare, a program presented by AIM, has been featured on the College of Medicine - Phoenix website.Click here to read...

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Descriptive Language

March 8, 2017 “There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record...

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Questioning

January 1, 2017 “Let someone say of a doctor that he really knows his physiology or anatomy, that he is dynamic – these are real...

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Impression and Bias

November 30, 2016 “Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.” Jon Elster. Explaining...

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Allies For Sexual Minorities - Prevention of Self-Harm and Suicide

In a partnership with the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF) and the University of Arizona Museum of Art (UAMA), the program of Art...

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Training Medical Students in the Use of Creative Expression to Improve Elder Care

In partnership with the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project (APP) based in Brooklyn, New York and directed by Gary Glazner, a series of...

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Creativity in Elder Care

Seventeen first and second year medical students are on their way to completing the requirements for the Creativity in Elder Care...

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Perspective Bias

Research has shown that we have an overwhelming tendency to look for what confirms our beliefs and ignore what contradicts our beliefs....

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Featured Artwork: LGBTQ+ Allies Leadership Program

Jenna DelBalso Administrative Assistant Masquerade, 2016 Charcoal, color pencil and watercolor pencil Aishan Shi, MSII Enrojecimiento -...

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Featured Artwork: Matisse Cutouts

During our fourth art journaling session, we were inspired by Henri Matisse to create paper cutouts to make a journal page. Here are some...

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Mirror Neurons and Art

Mirror neurons are thought to be the seat of empathy in the brain. The mirror neuron system can explain how students connect to and are...

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Featured Artwork: Art Journaling Session 2

During our most recent art journaling session, we focused on creating mixed multimedia background pages, and positive postcards addressed...

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The Neuroscience of Color

Bevil Conway at Wellesley College examines artists practices. The retina of the eye has 3 types of cones that are responsible for our...

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