Bring creativity and hope to public hospitals
Summary
RxArt plans to install a carefully curated series of original drawings by contemporary artists in a highly visible well-trafficked area of Gouverneur Hospital to be placed in a pediatric waiting room.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The project advances RxArt’s mission to identify facilities in which the installation of art could make a real and lasting impact on the well-being of patients and attending staff, and is specifically conceived to ease the stress of pediatric patients waiting to be seen by medical staff. Gouverneur is the largest freestanding ambulatory clinic in New York, serving approximately 50,000 patients per year, and an additional 300,000 at their main campus and satellite locations.
Activities
Three artworks have been selected for the space at Gouverneur Hospital. The artworks will be framed and installed with informational plaques by November 2009. Copies of RxArt's newest coloring book will also be distributed to the pediatric unit.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $5,705
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $5,295
Total Funding Goal: $11,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
- Project's External Homepage (http://www.rxart.net/)
- RxArt Home Page (http://www.rxart.net/)
- Gouverneur Hospital Home Page (http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/html/facilities/gouverneur.shtml)
- New York Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/17/nyregion/for-patients-welcome-relief-from-4-bare-walls.html?scp=1&)
- RxArt Projects Page (http://www.rxart.net/project/12919-st-jude-childrens-research-hos)
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The artwork is on long-term loan with no intention of it being removed. The project will engage a demographically diverse new audience daily by exhibiting art in a nontraditional venues that nearly all of us will visit at some point in our lives.
Project Message
"I applaud Diane's comittment to bridging the gap between the arts and health care....RxArt has fostered a creative, playful and fun atmosphere for both our patients and our clinicians."
- Dr. Harold Koplewicz, Founder and Director of the NYU CHild Study Center
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Megan Skidmore
RxArt
208 Forsyth Street
New York, NY 10002
United States
212-260-8797
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Organization
RxArt
208 Forsyth Street
New York,
NY
10002
United States
212-260-8797
http://www.rxart.net/
Where this Project is Located
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When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 20, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 4, 2009
Latest Update from the Field
RxArt's First Annual Gingerbread House Party
By Diane Brown - President, RxArt, November 20, 2009 06:45 PM
This event was inspired by RxArt's commission of 2 large paintings by Will Cotton for St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital. Cotton paints what he bakes, and for this RxArt Event he selected gingerbread houses. The artist invited a young patient from St. Jude's, who had been successfully treated for cancer, to come to his studio with her family and decorate gingerbread houses. Everyone involved had so much fun that Cotton and RxArt decided to host this fundraising event.
Co-Chairs Anne Hearst and Jay MacInerney, and Hosts Kerianne and James Flynn, Dylan Lauren, Cynthia Rowley and Bill Powers invite you to decorate your own gingerbread house with Will Cotton. Join us Sunday, December 6, 2009, 11am - 2pm at Dylan's Candy Bar, NYC. For tickets and more information visit www.rxart.net.
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