Arts in Healthcare
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| County: |
Lee |
| Categories |
Arts |
| Details: |
Arts in Healthcare links the expressive arts with the healing arts and brings these into the mainstream of traditional healthcare to promote well-being of those who are ill and their caregivers. It integrates the expressive art in all forms into the healthcare setting to provide creative outlets for patients, families, and staff. |
| Job Description: |
Artists in residence are volunteers who offer expressive art experiences with drawings, painting, and clay sculptures as they venture onto the patients' floors and into the waiting rooms, introducing a variety of projects and providing a means of self expression during treatment and recovery periods. Patients may watch, tell artists what they want them to do, or make art with the artist. |
| Times of Work: |
Weekdays daytime, Weekdays evenings, Weekends daytime, Weekends evenings |
| Primary Contact: |
Sonia Arledge-Lomano Lee Memorial Health System P. O. Box 2218 Fort Myers, FL 33902 Fax: (239) 335-7793 Phone: (239) 334-5633 Email: art@leememorial.org Website: http://www.leememorial.org/ |
| Worker's Comp for Volunteers?: |
N |
| Benefits Offered: |
Meals - One meal ticket per day if you volunteer for at least four consecutive hours. |
| Additional Information: |
This is a relatively new program, so we are very open to any suggestions or ideas to help expand the program. |