Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Lisa Mulvaney is the Creative Arts Program Coordinator at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. In her role as Coordinator of the Creative Arts Program, Lisa has brought together many cultural community partners and artists to help create healing spaces throughout the hospital which opened in 2012. In 2014, she introduced the National Arts Program® employee art show to Lurie Children’s and it was an enormous success. 

 

This was her second year with the program and once again she executed a beautiful show, which opened on May 13th and included 123 works of art. Lisa chose three individuals to judge the exhibit this year including Mel Theobald, Ginny Van Alyea and Monica Hork. Monica is extremely familiar with the show because she has personally coordinated the NAP at The University of Chicago Medicine for the past nine years. 

 

It is fantastic that arts program professionals are able to collaborate and help spread their best practices. This is the most common way that the NAP is introduced to new venues each year. Having someone who has experience coordinating their own well established employee art show can be a tremendous aid during your first year with our program. We applaud these two wonderful coordinators for working together in bringing the visual arts to the forefront of each of their respective hospitals.