Still Life: Documenting Cancer Survivorship
By The Creative Center, essays by Carrie McGee and Francesca Rosenberg,
Community and Access Programs, Department of Education at The Museum
of Modern Art and Margaret Krug, Senior Lecturer, The Whitney Museum
of American Art
This inspiring journey into healing art charts twenty-five cancer
survivors as they learned the art and craft of documentary photography
to convey their experiences in survivorship. Funded by a generous
grant from the Lance Armstrong Foundation, participants worked
with a photographer-in-residence, as well as leading educators
and curators from some of NY's major museums to produce portfolios
that told their "stories". Through their photographs,
these artists illuminate the true significance of what we see and
how we perceive it. The book is a remarkable testament to art as
the ultimate tool of self-advocacy, giving a powerful visual voice
to the cancer experience.
Artists-In-Residence: The Creative Center's Approach
to Arts in Healthcare
This book offers artists and healthcare professionals
a unique look at artmaking with patients and caregivers in healthcare
settings. The first of its kind in the rapidly emerging field
of arts-in-healthcare, this book features The Center's professionally
proven methods, illustrated by actual artist-in-residence logs
and photographs that tell the stories of the remarkable experiences
that occur when patients and staff are given the opportunity to
discover their own creative resources through art-making.
Thirteen chapters focus on all aspects of working
as an Artist-in-Residence, including Working in the Culture of a
Healthcare Institution, Working with Patients, Caregivers and
Caregiving and Working with the Dying. Practical tips and suggested
projects are featured in The Portable Studio, as well as in appendices.
Artists and healthcare facilities are given all the information
needed to start a Creative Center Artist-in-Residence program in
their hometown hospitals.
"...As patients engage in the creative process,
I have seen them, time and again, gain meaning from misery, comfort
from pain, and an insight that liberates them. Artists-in-Residence:
The Creative Center's Approach to Arts in Healthcare provides a
wonderful view of the transformative power of art and artists, and
reinforces the importance of The Creative Center's work."
Joel T. Katz, MD
Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School |
