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Art heals: How creative expression improves the patient experience
Featured on fiercehealthcare.com
Can art promote faster healing? More and more hospitals think so. For the past 20 years, art--including paintings, sculptures and music--has taken on an important role in healthcare. Watercolors and abstract photographs often line the once-barren walls of hospital corridors. And harpists and pianists often play soothing music in hospital lobbies.
For this art professor, 3D printing is opening new doors
Featured on college.usatoday.com
A recent Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce study showed that while employment prospects have gotten slightly better for Arts majors, finding work can still be a challenge. A technology that has been on the rise over the last five years is offering students and professors in the arts renewed hope: 3D printing.
The practice, which has been around in one form or another for many years, has been increasingly present in consumer markets.
Memo-rable! Superhero art made from Post-it notes gives San Francisco office art that sticks with workers
Featured on nydailynews.com
Call it Post Modern.
A San Francisco designer came up with a novel way to give his office a makeover – Post-it notes.
Ben Brucker used more than 8,000 of the sticky message notes to create a superhero-themed office and liven up the drab walls of his agency, UK Metro reported.
Among the Post-it characters were Superman, Captain America and Wonder Woman.
Peep art a sign of spring
Featured on democratandchronicle.com
It's a Peep show of a different kind.
More than 80 displays of the marshmallow treats as art are being featured at the Webster Recreation Center this weekend in the first Greater Rochester Peep Show. The event is hosted by the Webster Community Chest and other volunteers to raise funds for 13 area charities.
"We thought this would be a fun event to host," said Mary Goodlein, a board member of Webster Community Chest. "It's that time of the year when spring is here, we just thought this would bring people out."
The Story Behind ‘Woman in Gold’: Nazi Art Thieves and One Painting’s Return
Featured on nytimes.com
Artist gives away 1,000 pieces of art for Easter
Featured on ksdk.com
Starting in January, St. Charles, Mo. artist Zack Smithey started painting. And painting. And painting, until he had 1,000 pieces of art to give away this week.
"I've been here pretty much every day all day for the last three months," said Smithey.
Target makes art out of products in pop-up store
Featured on digiday.com
Target loves getting creative by way of the small-scale pop-up. In 2013, a life-size dollhousetook over Grand Central Station to show off Target’s Threshold furniture line; during back-to-school season, Target tapped into the college-student market with “Bullseye University,” a 3D dorm simulation outfitted with Target goods.
This week, you can visit an art gallery made entirely of Target products in Chelsea.
Hollywood history up for auction in Lauren Bacall's intimate art collection
Featured on cnn.com
An impressive art collection assembled by the late actress and Hollywood icon, Lauren Bacall, is officially ready for purchase.
The collection, which includes works by some of the greatest artists of the 20th century, goes under the hammer in New York on March 31, following a tour of Hong Kong, Paris, London and Los Angeles.
The selfie museum: why big art galleries should take it seriously
Featured on theguardian.com
Union hosts exhibit of art by Ford workers
Featured on southbendtribune.com
The United Auto Workers union is hosting an exhibition of 90 artworks created by Ford Motor Co. employees across the country, an event that organizers say illustrates the marriage of art and the automotive industry.
The inaugural “Art Collaborative” takes place tonight at the UAW-Ford National Program Center. It features works created by 44 hourly and salaried workers. Independent judges will award artists for painting, photography, mixed media and “Best of Show.”
This Art Director Beautifully Redesigns Homeless People's Signs
Can it help their fortunes?
Featured on adweek.com
America's homeless face myriad challenges, from mental illness to problems with addiction and substance abuse to amateur typography. The last of those is something that a Chicago art director is trying to address through a project called The Urban Type Experiment.
Foster youth express themselves in art class
Featured on livingstondaily.com
Some things are hard to put into words. Fortunately, there's art. When words fail, art can help express difficult emotions.
The youth in Arthur's Artists know all about difficult emotions.
"All of our kids have gone through an abusive or neglectful situation at the hands of their parents, to a point where it was so severe they had to be removed from the parents' custody," said Nicola Herman, who works with youth in foster care through the Department of Human Services office in Howell.
See Street Art Around the World via Google
Thousands of new images help preserve the art form
Featured on smithsonianmag.com
Not Digital Art, but Art Learned Digitally
Featured on nytimes.com
Having worked as an art teacher for 50 years, Lois DeWitt decided to try offering drawing and painting classes online. So in 2008 she established a website — Free Online Art Classes — that now attracts about 15,000 visitors a month from places like Indonesia, Africa and Germany to courses that include instruction in watercolors, oil painting and “artful lighting.” (Ms. DeWitt also happens to work in the lighting department of a Home Depot store on Sundays.)