So much can happen in the studio or gallery.
Visual & Craft artforms awaken the imagination, tell stories from diverse cultures, use small and large motor skills. Great Results: fun, pride, joy!
Cynthia O'Brien_photo.
Annette Scentimental Rose
3D Shapes, Fibres, Textiles & Objects
You might employ a potter or clay artist, a doll maker, a sculptor, a textile artist , a woodworker, props builder or mixed-media maker.
2D, photography, book arts & more
Visual & mixed-media artists, skilled in drawing, illustration, painting, graphic- novels or photography, work with people in a manner suitable to their interests, memories or goals.
Placemaking
Working towards a common goal, participants’ individual creations come together to help reinvent a public space; adding a special vibe to that location, or speaking to the whole community through the language of visual art.
Public Art for citizens in healthcare
Artist-in-Residence ‘public art’ refers to works that are created with the intention of engaging the community broadly through the presentation of finished artworks as cohesive, contemporary art installations, co-conceived specifically for a particular site or a particular moment in time.
Jan Wainwright painting
Scott Mayhew_Local Worlds
Driftwood from Monet's Pond_M. Knox
Painting by Vicky Marcou
Jane Foy printmaking on the cosmic "A"
“ For one patient participant, the art ‘gave me a sense of
“I can do something. ”
Impact of an Artist-in-Residence program in a complex continuing care hospital: a quality improvement investigation.
Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa Contact us for a copy of the full document
For Nurses Week 2020, patients & Artist-in-Residence collaborated to create a five-story installation, hanging from the stacked stairway balconies, in St.-Vincent Hospital’s atrium.
Cynthia O'Brien’s ceramic work with residents at The Perley and Rideau Veteran’s Health Centre. Pat Papaver Rhoeas_Photo, 2020