Arts in Medicine: Healing and Wellness Through Artistic Interventions Initiative

About the Program

Category: Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation

Year: 2023

In 2018, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and its award-winning Art in Public Places Program launched the Arts in Medicine: Healing and Wellness Through Artistic Interventions Initiative, commissioning three professional artists to create landmark artworks that inspire healing and promote recovery for Jackson Memorial Hospital System. This partnership resulted in innovated works of public art by three outstanding artists located on site at the Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center for The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at UHealth/Jackson Memorial, providing high-quality visual arts experiences to approximately 2,000 patients and their families each year. 

The Arts in Medicine: Healing and Wellness Through Artistic Interventions Initiative promotes wellness by creating art works that are: inspiring (a wonderful series of eight large-scale pencil drawings by Karl Haendel), integrated (a stunning 15,600 square feet three-color terrazzo floor with a pattern resembling molecular, cloud-like neurological structures by Jen Stark) and interactive (a spectacular, functional outdoor sculpture by Olaf Breuning that is used as part of physical therapy programs).These cultural inventions embedded within the healing environment provide patients, hospital staff, caregivers, and visitors with a supportive, peaceful setting as they move throughout the facility.