NC Arts for Health Is the gathering place of people who promote the arts as essential to the health and well being of individuals and communities. www.ncartsforhealth.org The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County Founded in 1949, The Arts Council was the nation’s first local arts agency. Today, The Arts Council engages in fundraising activities for the purpose of making arts and cultural experiences available to the entire community. They support local arts organizations, individual artists, and community wide arts projects through a series of grant programs. The Arts Council strives to create an environment in which the arts will prosper and flourish - http://www.intothearts.org Arts for Life is a nonprofit organization that gives young chronically ill patients tools they can use to approach their illness in positive ways. Participants come from around the state of North Carolina to receive treatment at Brenner Children's Hospital in Winston-Salem. Arts For Life gives the children opportunities to share their work with the public. By doing so, we hope the young patients will gain a sense of purpose and pride in their work, and we also aim to help educate others about childhood cancers. Arts For Life displays the participants' photographs on its web site, and we organize exhibits of the children's photographs and audio recordings to be shown in regional hospitals and universities. www.theartsforlife.org Associated Artists of Winston-Salem are the exhibiting residents of the Sticht Gallery. Visit their site - http://www.triadntr.net/~artists/ The Enrichment Center at http://www.enrichmentcenter.org is the exhibiting resident of the Penthouse Gallery. North Carolina School of the Arts was established in 1965 and is the first state-supported school in the United States providing professional training in the performing and visual arts. One of the sixteen campuses of the University of North Carolina, it is located on some 50 acres in downtown Winston-Salem. http://www.ncarts.edu The Society for the Arts in Healthcare is a member-based, non-profit organization, advocating on a national and international level for the integration of the arts into healthcare settings. The board of directors hopes that their services and benefits will be supportive of the efforts to carry out the shared mission to individual communities. Visit the web site at - http://www.societyartshealthcare.org/ Winston-Salem Convention & Visitors Bureau like Winston-Salem itself, this site has something for everyone: meeting and event planners, tour operators, media, local residents, and our guests. http://www.visitwinstonsalem.com/ Society of Arts and Medicine and the Dr. Clifford and Elizabeth Guy Award The Society of Arts and Medicine was created in 1992 and is composed of individuals from our medical community who annually make financial contributions to The Arts Council. The Society exemplifies the bond between two very important entities in our community- healthcare and the arts. In 1995 the Society presented its first Dr. Clifford and Elizabeth Guy Award, named in honor of Dr. Guy’s influence in founding the Society. A single $2,000 grant is offered each year for a project that connects aspects of the arts and healthcare. 2000 Society of Arts and Medicine Award  Project researchers Debby Jennings, Dr. Louis C. Argenta and Dr. Steven Block are investigating the ability of music to relieve stress and anxiety in premature infants. During the course of the study, premature infants in the Neonatal Immediate Care Nursery have been exposed to live music performed by trained harpists. The study’s purpose is to determine whether soothing music can improve clinical outcome.
2001 Dr. Clifford and Elizabeth Guy Award / Arts Council's Society of Arts and Medicine
Patti Hricinak and Deborah D. Williams share one of the Society of Arts in Medicine Grants awarded this year. They are working with Exchange-SCAN (Stop Child Abuse Now) on creating five hanging "tapestries."
This project is called "The Talking Tapestries of Hope" which will feature drawings, words, passages, poems, statements, from people/children who have experienced the issue of child abuse in some way. The staff of SCAN is invited to participate as well as the children they serve, including the parents of these children. |