What we offer
Expanding on The Creative Center’s stated mission, all of our staff and artists provide care and compassion in meeting the goals of our key programs.
Our goals in programming are:
to create a supportive community of people living with cancer and other chronic illnesses, their caregivers, survivors and healthcare staff.
to provide high-quality art instruction in various forms (visual, performing, and literary), designed to enable participants to discover their own creative resources.
to allow these creative resources to be seen as tools for both positive distraction and an expression of their fears, concerns, and questions about their diagnosis, treatment, and life beyond illness and treatment.
to connect patients in active treatment to The Creative Center's program through hospital-based art workshops which ease the transition to our on-site and virtual Art Workshop Program.
to deliver hospital-based staff workshops centered on the needs of healthcare staff, supporting employee emotional and physical well-being, and allowing space for stress relief, restoring balance, resiliency, and self-expression.
to combat the public health crisis of loneliness and isolation by advancing social connection and cultivating a culture of connection through creative expression.
to evaluate participant needs and responses in an effort to improve the program.
to be in touch with our broader community through our twice-monthly e-newsletter to our participants, partner organizations, and other constituents to share updates about our upcoming programs as well as other opportunities
Infusion patient and her mother playing with watercolors with the guidance of Hospital Artist-In-Residence Marika Hahn, Mount Sinai Chelsea.
Workshop artist Nivia Hernandez sets up for portrait photography at The Neighborhood House, a University Settlement Affiliated Senior Center.