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RxArt plans to install a carefully curated series of original drawings by contemporary artists in a highly visible well-trafficked area of Gouverneur Hospital to be placed in a pediatric waiting room.
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The project advances RxArt’s mission to identify facilities in which the installation of art could make a real and lasting impact on the well-being of patients and attending staff, and is specifically conceived to ease the stress of pediatric patients waiting to be seen by medical staff. Gouverneur is the largest freestanding ambulatory clinic in New York, serving approximately 50,000 patients per year, and an additional 300,000 at their main campus and satellite locations.
Three artworks have been selected for the space at Gouverneur Hospital. The artworks will be framed and installed with informational plaques by November 2009. Copies of RxArt's newest coloring book will also be distributed to the pediatric unit.
Total Funding Received to Date: $6,095
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $4,905
Total Funding Goal: $11,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
The artwork is on long-term loan with no intention of it being removed. The project will engage a demographically diverse new audience daily by exhibiting art in a nontraditional venues that nearly all of us will visit at some point in our lives.
"I applaud Diane's comittment to bridging the gap between the arts and health care....RxArt has fostered a creative, playful and fun atmosphere for both our patients and our clinicians."
- Dr. Harold Koplewicz, Founder and Director of the NYU CHild Study Center
Megan Skidmore
RxArt
208 Forsyth Street
New York, NY 10002
United States
212-260-8797
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RxArt
208 Forsyth Street
New York,
NY
10002
United States
212-260-8797
http://www.rxart.net/
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This project was last updated on December 11, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 4, 2009
By Diane Brown - President, RxArt, December 09, 2009 04:43 PM
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