September 2008 Newsletter

The latest issue of SAH Connections.

Message from Society for the Arts in Healthcare

	Buffalo Herd Visits Niagara Falls (detail) Dot Farrell   One of four acrylic canvasses Courtesy of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute collection

SAH Announcements

Announcement
Society for the Arts in Healthcare's 20th Annual Conference: Approaching Health Creatively
The Society for the Arts in Healthcare's 20th annual conference details are now available online. The conference, Approaching Health Creatively, hosted by the Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, will be held April 22 - 25, 2009 in Buffalo, NY.
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Announcement
Member Spotlight - Monte Nagler
This month features Monte Nagler of Photos For Healing. Monte says, "When the art can help relieve anxiety and help get a patient through a difficult or uncomfortable procedure, I've accomplished a personal goal."
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Call for Entry
Call for Papers: Society for the Arts in Healthcare 20th Annual Conference
The call for papers for Society for the Arts in Healthcare's 20th Annual International Conference is now open! Come share best practices, model programs and cutting-edge research at the most comprehensive arts in healthcare event! Submit a paper, panel, workshop or poster presentation.
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Announcement
October is National Arts and Humanities Month
Next month is National Arts & Humanities Month (NAHM)! How will you celebrate? The Society for the Arts in Healthcare joins Americans for the Arts and thousands of organizations across the nation to promote the arts. Find out how you can participate by visiting the NAHM website.
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Announcement
Board of Directors Request for Nominations
We welcome your nominations for the Society's Board of Directors, due by 11/1/08. The Society is looking for people to enrich the board and to create long range plans with dynamic vision and drive. Nominate a candidate who has experience, passion, knowledge and a willingness to serve the Society. Self-nominations are also accepted.
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Call for Entry
Call for Films
Submit an application to include your film in our second annual Society for the Arts in Healthcare Film Festival, A Showing of Arts in Healthcare Film Shorts, to take place on Friday, April 24th as part of our annual conference.
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Grant Opportunity
Apply for a Consulting Grant!
Apply for up to 20 hours of one-on-one consulting through the Society's Consulting Grants! Take advantage of this opportunity to work with an experienced leader in the field to grow your arts in healthcare program through a flexible format that meets your needs.
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Announcement
Expanded Employment/Volunteer Resource
Visit the employment/volunteer page on the Society's website to view a bounty of up-to-date listings. Posting your own volunteer and job opportunities is a benefit of membership.
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Exhibit
Expressions of Courage Exhibit
Sep 8, 2008 - Oct 24, 2008
UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
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Upcoming Member Events

Workshop
Putting the Pieces Together: Bringing the Performing Arts into Healthcare Settings
Sep 5, 2008 - Sep 5, 2008
Sheraton Seattle Hotel
Seattle, WA
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Conference
Music and Health: Current Developments in Research and Practice
Sep 9, 2008 - Sep 10, 2008
University Centre Folkestone
Kent, UK,
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Other
Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo
Sep 11, 2008 - Sep 11, 2008
Navy Pier
Chicago, IL
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Other
Children's Museum of Manhattan Special Open House
Sep 22, 2008 - Sep 22, 2008
The Children’s Museum of Manhattan
New York, NY
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Conference
Planning & Creating: The Patient Rooms of the Future
Sep 24, 2008 - Sep 26, 2008
Hotel Intercontinental
Houston, TX
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Exhibit
Uncommon Beauty
Oct 2, 2008 - Dec 13, 2008
Ellipse Art Center
Arlington, VA
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Conference
Wellness and Writing Connections Conference
Oct 10, 2008 - Oct 11, 2008
Mercer University
Atlanta, GA
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Conference
Mindfulness in Art Therapy
Oct 17, 2008 - Oct 17, 2008
Museum of Jewish Heritage
New York, NY
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Workshop
Creativity Workshop for People with Cancer & Family Caregivers - FREE & FUN!
Oct 20, 2008 - Nov 3, 2008
Solarium @ Historic Scottish Rite Hospital
Decatur, GA
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Workshop
Healing Child through Creativity:Child Art Therapy Workshop
Oct 27, 2008 - Oct 28, 2008
Long Beach Museum of Art
Long Beach, CA
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Workshop
Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop
Oct 29, 2008 - Oct 31, 2008
Belhaven College
Jackson, MS
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Workshop
Healing Child through Creativity:Child Art Therapy Workshop
Oct 30, 2008 - Oct 31, 2008
The Crocker Art Museum
Sacramento, CA
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Conference
International Symposium on Dance in Healthcare
Oct 31, 2008 - Oct 31, 2008
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Washington, DC
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Workshop
Healing Child through Creativity:Child Art Therapy Workshop
Nov 3, 2008 - Nov 4, 2008
The Fresno Art Museum
Fresno, CA
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Conference
"Cancer Stories: The Impact of Narrative on a Modern Malady"
Nov 6, 2008 - Nov 8, 2008
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN
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Reading
Book Launch and Poetry Reading
Nov 9, 2008 - Nov 9, 2008
FCJ Christian Life Centre, Calgary, Alberta Canada
Calgary, AB
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Conference
Weaving the Arts: Creative Therapies to Address Grief and Loss
May 15, 2009 - May 17, 2009
Pathways Center at Hospice of Larimer County, Fort
Fort Collins, CO
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Community Bulletin

Announcement
VCU Health System's Arts In Healthcare Program Produces a Poetry and Music CD for HIV/AIDS Awareness and Preventive Education Entitled " Living With It"

In 2007 The Arts In Healthcare program at the VCU Health System, applied for and received a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts to produce a CD of poetry and music for HIV/AIDS-awareness and preventive education. The project...
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Announcement
New HealthCare Fine Art Handbook - Online & Free

This website is designed to answer your questions about Art in Healthcare. It is culled from more than 530 posts on my blog. I picked the most useful articles and grouped them in chapters, like a book. I plan to keep updating it as new material...
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Job Posting
Office and Grants Manager
Bethune Theatredanse, a non-profit multi-media dance company with an educational dance and drama outreach program for children with disabilities, seeks a dedicated and experienced individual to manage a small office and staff, and to coordinate ongoing grants and has the ability to multi-task.
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Job Posting
Curator
For fifty years, Project HOPE has worked to make health care available for people around the globe - especially children. It's in our name: Health Opportunities for People Everywhere. From the beginning, when we sent medical volunteers onboard the world's first peacetime Hospital Ship, the SS HOPE, to our land-based programs today, Project HOPE has been committed to long-term sustainable health care. Our work includes educating health professionals and community health workers, providing medicines and supplies, strengthening health facilities, and fighting diseases such as TB, HIV/AIDS and Diabetes.
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Job Posting
Art Instructor
The nonprofit organization, Arts For Life, is hiring a part-time art instructor in Winston-Salem.
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Grant Opportunity
Creative Aging Program Grants
In recognition of the rapid growth in the number of Americans aged 60+ and recent research demonstrating that participatory arts programs can produce significant health benefits for older adults, MetLife Foundation and the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts have initiated the Creative Aging Program.
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Job Posting
Healing Arts Program Coordinator
This position is designed to direct, lead and support integrative therapies. Responsibilities include coaching and teaching of patients, staff and physicians regarding integrative therapies, providing holistic/integrative therapies to patients...
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Job Posting
Art, Music, or Recreation Therapist
Defiance Regional Medical Center has a part-time opening for an art, music or recreation therapist. Competitive wage and benefit package provided.
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Job Posting
Rehabilitation Therapist
Founded in 1965 Telecare is a rapidly growing mental health care company dedicated to making a difference for our Residents, the community, and our employees. We offer an array of mental health services to individuals with serious mental illness.
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Job Posting
Music Therapist
Available to Music Therapy Student or Graduate interested in volunteering at the only public children hospital in Quito Ecuador.
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Call for Entry
Outsider Art: SURVEY 2009
SURVEY 2009 seeks Outsider art by self-taught artists with mental disabilities. The exhibit will present Outsider art - reflecting the artist's own ideas and visions disregarding mainstream artistic values and historical art movements.
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Announcement
"Off The Rocks" Recovery Theater
"Off the Rocks" is a project using theatre and drama therapy as tools to create a healing process for women in recovery and to increase community awareness about substance abuse.
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Announcement
The Other Inmate: Mediating Justice-Mediating Hope: Poetry and Workbook for Restorative Practices
I wish to share with you that my book, The Other Inmate: Mediating Justice-Mediating Hope: Poetry and Workbook for Restorative Practices, is now published.
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Announcement
Can the art in hospitals cause infections?
Does Art spread Superbugs?
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Job Posting
Executive Director
The Executive Director is accountable for successful implementation of the policies set forth by the Board of Directors, always striving to achieve its mission to infuse the Amarillo community with an unbridled enthusiasm for the performance and discovery of great orchestral music.
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Call for Entry
Arts For Global Development magazine contributions
art'ishake welcomes participants to submit papers, articles, news, images of artworks, and announcements on arts and development issues. art'ishake is an e-journal that aims to provide an outlet for interdisciplinary and international exploration of the concepts and practices of creative and arts-infused development projects.
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Job Posting
High Impact Volunteer Abroad Opportunities
While creating a committed vanguard of thousands of volunteers worldwide, Unite For Sight challenges students, professionals, educators, and eye doctors, to rethink what it means to eliminate preventable blindness through local capacity building.
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Grant Opportunity
Elders Learning Through the Arts grants
The Elders Learning Through the Arts (ELTA) Program offers funds to individuals and organizations serving District residents, ages 60 and older, in arts programs. The Commission recognizes that senior art programs are a growing field and one that has shown great benefit to older adults.
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Job Posting
Creative Arts Therapist
We are currently seeking a 10-month Creative Arts Therapist as a result of our expanding adolescent services. This individual will provide creative arts therapy to adolescents in an inpatient setting and utilize art modalities and creative techniques for therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation.
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Job Posting
Creative Arts with Seniors
Work with seniors in a beautiful West Bloomington, Minnesota senior community with varied levels of care. Great work spaces to hold classes and guide individual residents with their personal interests.
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Job Posting
Art Therapy Specialist
Responsible for the development and implementation of individualized art-making activities and group art-making activities to improve the functional abilities of patients in designated units of Miller Children's Hospital and in other units where pediatric patients receive care.
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Job Posting
Art Therapist
Perform psychosocial assessments, conduct short-term psychotherapy, refer those in need of long-term, ongoing counseling to appropriate therapists/resources, provide crisis intervention counseling, facilitate art therapy support groups and programs, develop programs to meet psychosocial needs of oncology patients and participate in multi-disciplinary psychosocial rounds.
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Job Posting
Music Therapist
Music Therapist, PT, Board Certified, to work with children with developmental disabilities.  Music Therapist will do assessment, planning and implementation of music therapy programs for students with neurologically based learning disabilities, autism and other developmental disorders at Wildwood School.
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Job Posting
Public Art Commission Administrator
The City of Ann Arbor has instituted a Percent for Art Program and, through its Public Art Commission, seeks an Administrator. The Public Art Commission Administrator (PACA) is responsible for the overall leadership, general management, and daily operations of the Public Art Commission Percent for Art Program including program planning and development, financial management, supervision of project managers and all other activity in accordance with the policies of the Public Art Commission.
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Job Posting
Music Therapist
The music therapist will work with a multidisciplinary team in providing comprehensive end of life care to our Hospice patients and family members. He/she will case manage his/her own caseload which will comprise of various socio-cultural, ethnic and age groups.
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Job Posting
Music Therapist
Great opportunity exists for a full-time/salaried Expressive Therapist to become a member of our dedicated, multi-disciplinary team at our Step One Early Intervention Program in Quincy!
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Job Posting
Art Therapist
Assess individual needs and interests, determine appropriate habilitative/rehabilitative objectives, and develop activities to meet these objectives; conduct various forms of group and individual therapy; evaluate and document forensic client/patient/inmate response and progress...
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Job Posting
Family Counselor/Art Therapist
The School District of Palm Beach County is seeking qualified applicants for position: Family Counselor/Art Therapist.
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Job Posting
Craft Cottage Coordinator
This position is open at The Girls Campus of Mercy Home, which is located at 11600 S. Longwood. The schedule is flexible, approximately 20 hours per week. Most shifts would be weekdays between 4pm-9pm.
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Job Posting
Event Associate - Development Department
Scenarios USA, a creative non-profit organization that uses writing and filmmaking to foster youth leadership, advocacy, and self-expression in under-served teens, is seeking an Event Planning Intern to join its rapidly expanding Youth and Community Development and Development Departments.
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Job Posting
Executive Director
The Executive Director will possess outstanding writing and speaking skills, a thorough knowledge of LI arts organizations, experience in not-for-profit management, and a desire to work with the region's leading professional and community leaders in the arts.
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Job Posting
Executive Director
The Lawrence Arts Center, located in Lawrence, KS, seeks an experienced, full-time Executive Director. The Executive Director serves as the chief executive officer as well as the principal visionary, strategist, advocate and spokesperson for the Lawrence Arts Center and unifying leader for the Lawrence arts community.
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Job Posting
Project Coordinator - Education Dept.
HAI, a not for profit arts and social service organization is seeking a project coordinator to oversee several art based programs in health, social service and educational settings focusing on youth leadership, violence prevention, and conflict resolution.
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Job Posting
Executive Director
Springstep seeks an Executive Director to lead our young nonprofit organization into a period of growth and development. Springstep celebrates dance and music traditions from cultures around the world. We strengthen communities as we encourage participation in, and appreciation for, these arts.
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Job Posting
Music Therapist
Requires Bachelors Degree in Music, Music Education or Music Therapy. Position works in a state mental health treatment setting for adult males.
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Job Posting
Expressive Arts Therapy Assistant
Reporting to the Director of Clinical Programs, the Expressive Arts Therapy Assistant facilitates treatment groups, assists in evaluating and/or assessing patients and their potential for participation in expressive arts therapy groups.
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Job Posting
Recreational/Art Therapist
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:Plan, implement, and evaluate comprehensive recreation therapy programming for all clients served by Uhlich Children's Advantage Network (UCAN), Inc.
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Job Posting
Healthcare Design Architect and Planner
We are looking for your expertise in Healthcare Design.  Full Time position with Great Benefits, which include Company Stock!
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Job Posting
Architect
Architect/Project Manager for midsized architectural firm. Exp. in healthcare design a plus.
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Conference
“Music and Medicine: Composing the Science of Healing”
Sep 12, 2008 - Sep 13, 2008
Indiana University-Purdue University
Fort Wayne, IN
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