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Today, through the amazing partnership between Whitney Museum of American Art and NYC Health + Hospitals, the HHArt of Medicine team offered our 25th workshop of 2025!!

The overhead view of artmaking in progress and scattered supplies beautifully captures the burst of creative energy that flowed through today’s wellness workshop. Busy, bright, layered, bold, playful!

What a gift to be able to spend this chilly Sunday in creative collaboration with The Drawing Center and The Creative Center during the 2025 Creative Center Training Institute for fellow clinicians, educators and creatives.

So grateful to have been able to provide a space for the fabulous clinical team at The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) to creatively process all that is happening around and within them during an emotional election week.

Yesterday, I as able to witness the fact that live, in-person viewing of artwork elicits emotional and physiological responses that are 10x greater than viewing a reproduction or copy.

Just co-led another fantastic arts-based workshop for a team of diligent managers, directors, and administrators at one of our city’s largest and most diverse public hospitals and once again, learned something new from my participants.

Today I had the rare treat of co-leading a mindful art workshop for interns across various departments of the Whitney Museum of American Art. We were inspired by the current exhibition by Ruth Asawa, a prolific Japanese American artist who had spent some of her teen years in internment camps in California.

Yesterday was our first arts-based workshop of the autumn season provided for a dynamic group of administrators, physicians, and clinicians at Elmhurst Hospital Center along with my esteemed colleague from the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The use of art as therapy has countless benefits for one's overall well-being. Creating “art for art’s sake” is an exercise of self-care that can cultivate self-compassion and aid in healing.

Aside from individual and group therapy, I offer arts-based wellness workshops as a chance for these populations to reconnect with their "inner artists" and immerse themselves in a much needed creative self-care break.