The NYC Well being + Hospitals’ Arts in Drugs program has introduced a brand new season of paint events, the place anybody can assist paint murals utilizing a “paint by numbers” format, and the ensuing murals can be completely put in at hospital websites as a part of the NYC Well being + Hospitals Group Mural Venture. The murals have been designed by 10 artists chosen earlier this 12 months and developed by focus teams with sufferers, workers, and neighborhood residents.
The system additionally launched the design of a mural by artist Kristy McCarthy that can be put in within the pediatrics division of NYC Well being + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Well being. Anybody can assist paint the mural on the first paint get together of the season: Thursday, June 22, from 12 p.m. to three p.m.
The Group Mural Venture is featured within the newest episode of “That’s So New York” on NYC Life (WNYE-TV/Channel 25), the flagship channel for NYC’s tv community, NYC Media.
“We’re proud to accomplice with NYC Well being + Hospitals to carry 20 extra group murals to the system over the following two years,” stated Laurie Tisch, founder and president of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund. “The murals have created a lot pleasure and wonder in amenities in each borough, concerned workers in artistic collaborations, and provided new methods for individuals to grow to be engaged with the hospitals. It’s a pleasure to assist develop this common program.”
“The Group Mural Venture is an incredible alternative to have interaction our sufferers, households, and workers in a collaborative and interesting course of,” stated Larissa Trinder, assistant vp of Arts in Drugs at NYC Well being + Hospitals. “Public murals reinforce a way of satisfaction and belief in a single’s group. We proceed to be grateful to Laurie M. Tisch and her Illumination Fund for her deep consciousness and advocacy of the numerous position these murals have on public well being.”
NYC Well being + Hospitals serve communities in all 5 boroughs. The Group Mural Venture is a chance to have interaction sufferers, households, and workers in a collaborative course of. A long time of analysis have proven that the humanities can play a job in “therapeutic the healers,” in addition to enhancing affected person outcomes and creating group well being consciousness and partnerships.
The brand new murals will construct on the 26 murals created within the first wave of the Group Mural Venture and not too long ago featured in a brand new e book, “Therapeutic Partitions: New York Metropolis Well being + Hospitals Group Mural Venture 2019–2021.” The Group Mural Venture and different Arts in Drugs packages at NYC Well being + Hospitals are made attainable with help from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.
Group members are welcome to assist paint a mural on the paint events:
NYC Well being + Hospitals/Queens
Friday, July 14, 12 p.m.–3 p.m.
82-68 164th Avenue, Queens, NY 11432
Artist Zeehan Wazed (@zeehanwazed)
NYC Well being + Hospitals/Carter
Thursday, July 20, 12 p.m.–3 p.m.
1752 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10035
Artist Ji Yong Kim (@jiyongkim_art)
NYC Well being + Hospitals/Gotham Well being, Morrisania
Tuesday, August 8, 12 p.m.–3 p.m.
1901 First Avenue, New York, NY 10029
Artist Yukiko Izumi (@yi_design_jp)
NYC Well being + Hospitals/Kings County
Friday, August 18, time to be decided
451 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203
Artist Jodi Dareal (@jodidareal)
NYC Well being + Hospitals/Gotham Well being, Sydenham
Friday, August 25, 10 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
264 West 118th Avenue, New York, NY 10026
Artist Stephanie Costello (@stephcostelloart)
NYC Well being + Hospitals/Harlem
Date and occasions to be decided
506 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY 10037
Artist Tijay Mohammed (@artoftijay)
NYC Well being + Hospitals/Lincoln
Date and occasions to be decided
234 East 149th Avenue, Bronx, NY 10451
Artist Dister Rondon (@dister)
NYC Well being + Hospitals/North Central Bronx
Date and occasions to be decided
3424 Kossuth Avenue, Bronx, NY 10467
Artist Roy Secord (@roysecord)
The Group Mural Venture has been the nation’s largest public hospital mural program because the Nineteen Thirties, when the depression-era Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissioned murals in public buildings, together with just about each hospital in New York Metropolis’s public healthcare system. The WPA murals have been the beginning of NYC Well being + Hospitals artwork assortment, which now’s the town’s largest public artwork assortment and consists of greater than 7,000 items of artwork in a number of disciplines. The artwork assortment is used to reinforce the healthcare setting, encourage creativity, promote wellness, improve entry to the humanities, and have interaction workers.
NYC Well being + Hospitals’ assortment of greater than 7,000 artworks consists of historic murals commissioned by the WPA, work, mosaics, pictures, sculptures, set up artwork, and murals by each rising and established skilled artists. The gathering consists of works by a few of America’s main artists, similar to Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Helen Frankenthaler, Mary Frank, Betty Blayton, Candida Alvarez, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, and Keith Haring. Greater than an artwork assortment, these works create a therapeutic setting, activate areas, have interaction workers, promote visible acuity, and develop entry to the humanities for 43,000 staff and greater than 1.2 million sufferers who obtain care at NYC Well being + Hospitals amenities.
