Creative Arts Program
Creative arts as companion therapy
Creative arts therapies include art, dance/movement, drama, music, humor, writing, and poetry. These approaches encourage and support the exploration of the personal creative process.
The creative arts are gentle therapies that are especially helpful during difficult times, when you feel overwhelmed with diagnoses and treatment plans.
The Creative Arts Specialist, Jessica Case, facilitates artwork with patients, family members, caregivers, and staff in the Arts Studio in the Blum Resource Center in the Dana building lobby.
You can also do art on your own in the art room. We recommend that you call ahead if you might need assistance or guidance.
Throughout the year, guest artists offer workshops in jewelry making, knitting, collage, landscape painting, mono-printing, and other artistic mediums to patients, family members, caregivers, and staff.
Materials are provided free of charge, and no artistic experience is necessary. Just bring an open mind and heart.
The Creative Arts Program was founded in 1997 by Mary Louise O'Connor, a Dana-Farber patient:
"Vital to life as Breath
is what we think, feel, dream and make.Discovering and expressing
What images and idea appeal to us
is a path to our own deeper worlds, and
connection to what inspires the human spirit.It is very important to be inspired
especially now."- Mary Louise O'Connor, Ph.D
