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Fall 2015  
News from the Heart 
Art with a Heart in Healthcare provides personalized fine art experiences that enhance the healing process for patients and their families. 
I Carry Your Heart In My Heart
Transforming Perceptions In Healthcare
 
Art students from UNF are carefully selected each year by distinguished professor Louise Freshman Brown to take part in a groundbreaking intern partnership with the Art With A Heart In Healthcare program at Wolfson Children's Hospital, Nemours Children's Clinic and the Ronald McDonald House in Jacksonville, Florida. While the children's interactions with the interns are profound, the experiences of the art students who work with these children are equally transformative.

The Film I CARRY YOUR HEART IN MY HEART explores not only the work these art students do with Art with a Heart In Healthcare, but also how being involved with this program and these children changes them as artists and as people. The film also explores how this experience, guided by Freshman Brown and Lori Guadagno, sets the stage for these young interns to continue to utilize their creativity to powerfully impact both the hospital setting and their communities.




Extending our services to Nemours

We are proud to announce that we will be extending our services two additional days to include Bob Drust caricatures and Anne Roberts jewelry making. Thank you Bob and Anne for helping us bring even more smiles!

Ronald McDonald House Beam

 
We are ecstatic to be a permanent part of the extension of the Ronald McDonald House! This beam symbolizes our never wavering support for everyone who is in our program. Art with a Heart In Healthcare will always be your strength and a friend you can lean on but more importantly, a creative outlet to keep your dreams blooming.
 
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Volunteers

Art with a Heart is grateful for the selfless devotion of our volunteers.

 

Wolfson Children's Hospital

Patsy Moore

Pati Merrill

Alexis Audate

Rachel Smith

Jennifer Guthrie

   

Ronald McDonald House

Todd Rykaczewski

Bob Drost 

Jordanne Ryan

Lee Durban 

  

     
 
Board of Directors

Melissa Roland
Chair

Laird

Guy Cuddihee

Judy Codwell
Treasurer

Brooks Cannon
Secretary

Jennifer Guthrie 
 
       
Board of Advisers
 
Lisa Ullmann
Robert Monsky
Katharine Loeb
Sam Hall
Cynthia Jacoby-Greene 
 
Honorary Board Members 

L ouise Freshman Brown
P rofessor University of North Florida

Suzanne Taylor
Community Volunteer

Karen Wolfson
Wolfson Children's Hospital

Art with a Heart
in Healthcare
841 Prudential Drive, Suite 150
Jacksonville, Florida 32207
(904) 306-0390


 
Art with a Heart Team


Lori Guadagno
Co-founder, Program Director 
 Artist in Residence

Lori Presto, MSW
Director of Operations 
 Artist in Residence

Christy Ponder 
Program Developer 
Artist in Residence 

Ajamu Mutima
Artist in Residence  
Wolfson Children's Hospital

Cheryl Borja
Artist in Residence
Wolfson Children's Hospital and Ronald McDonald House

Samantha Solley
Artist in Residence
Wolfson Children's Hospital

Anne Roberts
Artist in Residence
Wolfson Children's Hospital

Matt Richards
Artist in Residence
Wolfson Children's Hospital and Ronald McDonald House

Laura Meier
Artist in Residence
Wolfson Children's Hospital & KTAC

Maddie Firestone
Artist in Residence
Wolfson Children's Hospital and Ronald McDonald House

Korey Cunningham
Artist in Residence
Wolfson and Nemours Children's Specialty Care

Todd Rykaczewski
Marketing Director
Artist in Residence
        arbus:What's In Your Head?           
arbus Covers The Unmasked Show At MOCA
    When posed with that question countless images can go through your mind - an office desk piled with projects that need to get done, the Jaguars game that you are looking forward to this weekend, or even something as mundane as the pot roast you are going to have for dinner tonight. When young patients at Wolfson Children's Hospital were asked the same question, "What's in your head?" they each answered that question by painting a mask.
 
 
       

Welcome UNF Interns!
Baily
Baily Huges
 
Nina Avis
Maggie Wood
Amy Irizarry
Maggie Wood, Amy Irzarry, Nina Avis and Baily Huges of UNF will be interning with Art with a Heart In Healthcare this semester! Our loving group of students will work on the floor as artists in residence while they share the power of creativity!
Visiting Artist Series
Visiting Artist: Steve Barr
AWAHIH would like to thank Steve Barr, Mia Clark and Bebe Alexander for being our visiting artists this last quarter. As always, the artist did an amazing job visiting the little ones at their bedside and bringing smiles through their gift's. Steve brought bedside fun to his sessions by drawing cartoons with the children. Bebe from St. Marks Episcopal Day School  also contributed to the magic with her amazing Foil project. Mia was spot on with her book The Dot. 
 
"I've seen amazing things happen throughout this process.  I got to watch a young girl who was going through chemo and radiation treatments skip down the hallway, clutching art supplies to her chest and singing I get to draw!  I get to draw!" -Steve Barr
 
Foil Art

 
Foil Fun

Patient Artwork
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