SUMMER INTENSIVES

8th Annual Arts in Healthcare Summer Intensive at the University of Florida: June 2-20, 2008
The Arts in Healthcare Summer Intensive is a comprehensive training program for artists, caregivers, administrators, students, educators, and others who wish to explore the roles of the arts in healthcare fields and settings. The intensive includes workshops in the history, philosophy and physiology of art and healing, experiential workshops in the visual arts, music, dance, theatre and writing, clinical observation with the Shands Arts in Medicine program, workshops in facilitating the arts at the bedside, arts in healthcare program implementation, administration, funding and grant writing, research and overviews of careers in the arts in healthcare, hospital performance production and "Caring for the Caregiver" programming.

Click here to view our slideshow of images from the Summer Intensive.

More information available about 2008 summer intensive program (June 2-20):
+ Syllabus (click here to download)
+ Program schedule (click here to download)
+ Biographies of faculty & lectures (click here to download)
+ Scholarship application (click here to download)
+ Online registration
+ Preparing to attend-accommodations, immunizations, art auction (click here to download)

+ Health Documentation Requirements for Clinical Practice - click here for important health documentation requirements. Full-time participants must bring all required immunization documentation to submit on June 2.

for more information, contact Jill Sonke-Henderson at jsonke@ufl.edu

Special Offering: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 7:30pm. UF College of Nursing, room TBA

Inside Out – The Arts in Prisons and Detention Centers with Leslie Neal, Director, ArtSpring
Leslie will host a special seminar to share her work in teaching and expanding arts programs in Florida’s prisons, jails and detention centers over the past 14 years.  These programs have proven to be so successful that the Florida Department of Corrections has recently approved a statewide Arts in Corrections initiative to implement arts programming in prisons across the state.  Seminar attendees will be invited to a unique opportunity to visit a local women’s prison to view a special performance of their work presented by the female inmates in ArtSpring’s Inside Out program on Sunday afternoon, June 8.

To register, click the registration link above (under the Summer Intensive program) and register for one lecture.

*ArtSpring, Inc. is a not-for-profit arts organization based in Miami that is dedicated to the power of art to transform individuals and strengthen communities through creative expression. Through a collaborative process, their faculty of artists engage workshop participants in finding cultural meaning and creative expression through their own art-making. ArtSpring programs primarily serve incarcerated women and girls in detention and foster care who are often victimized and forgotten.         

New: Arts in Healthcare Summer Intensive at the University at Buffalo: August 4 -15, 2008
A two-week intensive training program designed for practicing and aspiring hospital Artists in Residence. Emphasis will be placed on preparation for clinical practice including experiential workshops in the visual arts, music, dance, and writing, facilitating the arts at the bedside, and self-care of the Artists in Residence. Participants will be mentored by artists from the Shands Arts in Medicine program as they work in clinical settings at the Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo.

For more information, contact the Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo, 716.645.6259