Aesthetic Audio Systems, Inc.
Contact: Anne Macpherson
Marketing Assistant
301 Spruce Street
San Diego, CA 92103
Phone: 619-683-7512
Fax:  619-623-7510
Email:  info@aestheticas.net
Website: www.aestheticas.net  

Aesthetic Audio Systems, Inc. creates custom audio programming for public, patient and clinical spaces in healthcare institutions by using therapeutic principles of music. Studies have shown that acoustic environments can affect how we feel and how we work, helping to balance the body's health and well-being. The design of appropriate auditory environments creates positive mental, emotional, and physical experiences. Aesthetic Audio Systems utilizes Harmonic HealthCare auditory environments (uniquely created ambient, jazz and classical music) in healthcare public spaces to enhance and reinforce the healing experience for patients, visitors, caregivers and staff.

Aesthetics, Inc.
Contact: Fred Sharff
Director of Marketing
301 Spruce Street
San Diego, CA 92103
Phone: (619) 683-7500
Fax: (619) 623-7510
E-mail: info@aesthetics.net 
Web site: www.aesthetics.net 

Aesthetics, Inc. is a multidisciplinary design firm that collaborates to bring harmony, balance and beauty to the built environment through architecture, interior design, graphic design and the arts. For 25 years, Aesthetics has developed an integrated approach to creating healing experiences. Although their primary focus is in healthcare institutions, they have worked in both the public and private sectors, specializing in Wayfinding Programs, Donor Recognition Systems, Arts and Culture Programs, Interior Design, History and Corporate Branding Displays, Chapels, Healing Gardens, Children's Environments, and Multi-sensory Healing Environments.

Arts and Healing Network
Contact: Ms. Danny Hobson
Director
P.O. Box 276
Stinson Beach, CA  94970
Phone: None
E-mail: ahn@artheals.org
Web site: www.artheals.org

The Arts and Healing Network is dedicated to celebrating the connection between art and healing. The Web site includes an extensive community arts section,  a monthly newsletter, book and grant recommendations, links to other Web sites, an interactive bulletin board, and more.

The Creative Center
Contact: Geraldine Herbert
Director
147 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (646) 336-7612
E-mail: info@thecreativecenter.org
Web site: www.thecreativecenter.org

The Creative Center has developed a National Artists-in-Residence program with 23 hospitals in the New York area to prepare artists from across the country to work with patients in medical centers and hospices. The Creative Center also provides free workshops that include visual, literary and performing arts programs to develop a community of support in which children and adults in hospitals can improve the quality of their lives. The Creative Center Gallery exhibits the artwork of professional and non-professional artists, showcasing and supporting the work of artists and raising public awareness regarding the artistic ability of those who are often seen as representative of their disease, rather than unique individuals.

Elders Share The Arts
Contact:  Susan Perlstein
Executive Director
138 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY  11217
Phone: (718) 398-3870
Fax: (718) 398-3864
E-mail: sperlstein@creativeaging.org
Web site: www.elderssharethearts.org 

Elders Share the Arts (ESTA) works with individuals of all ages to transform life stories into dramatic, literary and visual presentations that celebrate inner-city community life.  Pearls of Wisdom, ESTA's touring storytellers, express their diverse lives and raise awareness of social issues by performing stories, playlets and songs for communities with limited access to art. Generating Community, ESTA's intergenerational arts partnership program, promotes art programs that bring together older persons and young students from various schools and centers. ESTA also sponsors the National Center for Creative Aging, a Web site which features the National Arts and Aging Resource Directory, a searchable database of programs around the country that focus on arts. To go to the Web site, click here: http://www.creativeaging.org 

Gifts of Art
Contact: Elaine Sims
Director
300 N. Ingalls
NI-5C06, NIB
Ann Arbor, MI 49109-0470
Phone: (734) 936-ARTS
Fax: (734) 763-0417
E-mail: esims@umich.edu
Web site: www.med.umich.edu/goa 

Gifts of Art brings the world of art and music to the University of Michigan Health System. Its comprehensive programs are intended to revitalize and enrich the lives of patients, visitors and staff, assist and enhance the healing process and reduce the stress and anxiety often associated with healthcare settings. Gifts of Art maintains nine galleries of changing exhibits, weekly public concerts, live music bedside and in waiting areas of the hospital, the Art Cart program (a lending library of poster art for patient rooms), the FRIENDS Mediation Garden, Caring for the Caregiver initiatives, an annual employee art show, a full medical center orchestra (the Life Sciences Orchestra), medical school mini-course, University curriculum in arts and healthcare, lectures, special events and community collaborations. Currently, Gifts of Art is leading a hospital-wide art making project for patients, visitors and staff to create a permanent art piece entitled “The Dragon of Wishes, Hopes and Dreams”. 

Hasbro Children's Hospital
A Lifespan partner at Rhode Island Hospital
Contact: Paula Most
Coordinator for the Arts at Lifespan
593 Eddy Street,
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Phone: (401) 444-3153
Fax: (401) 444-5279
E-mail: pmost@lifespan.org
Web site: www.lifespan.org

The Healing Arts Program is an integral part of patient care, fostering creative expression for adults and children coping with illness or injury. With hands-on art projects for children and adults, colorful paintings and sculptures throughout Lifespan partner hospitals, diverse arts performances and creative education forums for hospital staff, Lifespan hospitals have earned recognition as part of a worldwide movement to enrich and enliven the hospital environment through the arts. At Lifespan hospitals, the arts are being given a more important and strategic role to play in:

• Planning and design of new Lifespan facilities

• New therapeutic programs

• Employee and public relations

• Community outreach

• Fund-raising efforts

Hospital Audiences, Inc.
Contact: Michael Jon Spencer
Founder and Executive Director
548 Broadway 3rd Floor
New York, NY  10012-3950
Phone: (212) 575-7676
TTY: (212) 575-7673
Fax: (212) 575-7669
E-mail: hai@hospaud.org
Web site: http://www.hospitalaudiences.org

Through a range of arts programming, Hospital Audiences, Inc. (HAI) makes it possible for individuals who typically do not have access to mainstream cultural and social experiences to gain confidence, develop communication skills, and learn about public health issues through dance, music, visual arts, and community events. Service recipients include at-risk youth, people with mental and physical disabilities, older adults, persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities, homeless single adults and families, and persons with HIV/AIDS. Since its inception in 1969, HAI has provided opportunities for 11 million people to experience healing and growth through the arts at more than 344,300 events.

Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Contact: Nancy Morgan
Director and Writing Clinician
3800 Reservoir Road NW
Washington, D.C. 20007
Phone: (202) 444-7228 phone
Fax: (202) 444-7889
E-mail: npm2@georgetown.edu
Web site: http://lombardi.georgetown.edu/  

The Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program promotes an optimum life experience for patients, family members and medical caregivers, offering activities, resources, education, and environments that encourage a creative and constructive response to illness. Music, visual arts, literary arts, drama and dance / movement provide avenues of expression that assist with coping, self-expression, and communication skills. Programs include: artist residencies; expressive writing workshops; publication of Lombardi Voices, an anthology of writings by members of the Lombardi community; Lombardi Moves, a dance curriculum for people with cancer; art exhibitions and performances.

New Horizons  
Children's National Medical Center
Contact: Tina S. Lassiter
Manager, New Horizons
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC  20010
Phone: (202) 884-3225
Fax: (202) 884-3489
E-mail: tlassite@cnmc.org
Web site: http://www.cnmc.org/

New Horizons, founded in 1978, is an arts education and cultural enrichment program that provides patients with activities to speed the healing process, encourage continued learning, offer emotional and intellectual stimulation and vitalize the hospital environment. Activities are targeted for various age groups in the disciplines of visual arts, literature, music, dance, puppetry, story telling and theatre and are offered weekly in playrooms, at the patient’s bedside or in the public Atrium space. New Horizons also displays permanent and temporary art exhibits by local and regional artists throughout the hospital. The Young Expressions Gallery features visual and literary compositions by hospital patients. Their work is also featured in the “Young Expressions” newsletter.

Riverside Cancer Care
Jennifer Quinn
Art Therapist
3545 Olentangy River Road
Suite 511
Columbus, Ohio 43214
Phone: (614) 566-5929
Fax: (614) 566-2034
jquinn@ohiohealth.com 
www.ohiohealth.com 

Riverside Cancer Care offers a Healing Arts program that compliments medical treatment for cancer patients as a means to explore and express how cancer has affected their lives. Family members and hospital employees also participate in the program. Patients may receive art at the bedside and participate in art education and music programs.

Shands Arts in Medicine
Contact:  Tina Mullen
Program Director
P.O. Box 100326
Gainesville, FL  32610
Voice: 352-265-0151
Fax: 352-265-8912
E-mail: mullecm@shands.ufl.edu
Web site: www.shands.org

Shands Arts in Medicine program is a creative arts approach to health care that combines standard medical practices with innovative healing methods; it asserts that medical science alone can not create a healthy society. Arts in Medicine offers regularly scheduled workshops in patient units at both Shands at the University of Florida and Shands at Alachua General Hospital. Artists and trained volunteers also make daily patient and staff-requested visits to patients' rooms where they engage in a variety of activities. Artists strive to accommodate each individual's needs to build close supportive relationships with the patients and their families throughout their stay.

Smith Farm Center for the Healing Arts
Contact: Shanti Norris
Executive Director
1632 U St., NW
Washington, DC  20009
Phone: 202.483.8600
Fax: 202.483.8601
E-mail: heal@smithfarm.com 
Web site: http://www.smithfarm.com 

Smith Farm Center believes in and promotes the inherent healing power of the arts. Smith Farm is a 10-year-old non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that provides opportunities for people with serious illnesses to explore physical, mental, emotional and creative resources for healing. Smith Farm trains professional artists (visual artists, poets, musicians, writers and movement artists) to work with patients in three Washington metro area hospitals: The Washington Hospital Center Cancer Institute, Howard University Cancer Center and The Holy Cross Hospital Cancer Institute. At its community resource center, Smith Farm provides regularly scheduled workshops, as well as a Healing Arts Gallery with changing shows throughout the year. 

Society for the Arts in Healthcare
Contact:  Sarah Kemp
Operations Manager
2437 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC  20009
Phone: (202) 299-9770
Fax: (202) 299-9887
E-mail: mail@theSAH.org
Web site: www.theSAH.org 

Society for the Arts in Healthcare (SAH), founded in 1991, promotes the incorporation of the arts as an integral component of Healthcare by demonstrating the valuable role the arts can play in enhancing health and well being. SAH promotes the inclusion of arts into the planning and operations of Healthcare facilities, the professional development and management of arts programming for Healthcare populations, educational projects and research initiatives. SAH offers a variety of grants and awards with the goal of advancing the field of arts in healthcare. With support from the National Endowment for the Arts, SAH conducts a consultancy service to assist organizations in developing, re-imaging and sustaining their arts in healthcare programs.

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (Project Arts)
Contact:  Adrienne Drapkin
Director
University of Iowa Hosiptals and Clinics
200 Hawkins Drive, #8023 JCP
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Phone:  (319) 353-6417
Fax:  (319) 384-8141
E-mail:  adrienne-drapkin@uiowa.edu
Web site:  http://www.uihealthcare.com/
depts/projectart/

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) Project Arts conducts a wide range of art activities and services, including rotating exhibitions in five UIHC locations representing Iowa and Midwest artists, a Performing Arts program, the Art Cart and Art supplies for patients. All of the services offered by Project Arts contribute to humanizing the healthcare environment. Since the inception of Project Art in 1978, the UHIC has provided all of its programs at no cost while preserving a permanent collection of over 3,600 original works of art and 3,000 reprodutions. If additional funds are required, donations are raised before the event through grants from the hospital departments, local businesses, corporations, foundations, The Iowa Arts Council and private contributors.