Come celebrate Arts, Culture, and Creativity month with leaders who are bringing the arts into the healthcare environment for patients and staff. Many of the tools developed are being applied to our clinicians, who are on the front line fighting COVID-19.
We will highlight one new clinician-oriented program, NOAH's ARC - Art for Resilience in Clinicians. We will also include programs developed at UCSF Art for Recovery, Contra Costa Health Services' Stress Reduction Through the Arts, and Healing Environments, such as the state of the art facility at Lucille Packard's Children's Hospital at Stanford. Moderated by arts in health pioneer Naj Wikoff, we will explore how California is leading the way to bring the gifts of the arts to our patients and staff.
Panelists
Annette Ridenour, NOAH, Aesthetics, Inc. (San Diego)
Alan Siegel, M.D. Lead, NOAH Clinician Well-being & Burnout Group. Lead for NOAH Covid Clinician Project (NOAH's ARC - Art for Resilience in Clinicians)
Cindy Perlis, MFA, Founder and Former Director, UCSF Art for Recovery
Napoleon Dargan, Ph.D. Health Psychologist, Contra Costa Health Services. Director for Stress Reduction Through the Arts (recently applied to teens with pediatric obesity)
Moderated by Naj Wikoff
General Links:
National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) Support NOAH
Code of Ethics, Standards of Practice and other free publications (NOAH)
Arts in Health California (Facebook Page)
Advocacy Actions (CFTA)
Regional Advocacy List Registration (CFTA)
COVID-19 Arts Resources Links:
Creative Response Open Resources (NOAH)
Center for Arts in Medicine (University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine)
COVID-19 Resources (CFTA)
About the Panelists
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Annette Ridenour
Chapter Leader, NOAH (NOAH Arts in Health Care Curriculum); President, Aesthetics, Inc. ridenour@aesthetics.net
Annette's been a leader in healthcare design for over 40 years as president of Aesthetics, Inc. A pioneer of the field of arts and healthcare, she served as one of the original board members and president of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare. Currently, she's Treasurer of the National Organization for Arts in Health. She coauthored "Transforming the Healthcare Experience through the Arts" with former Rady Children’s Hospital CEO, Blair Sadler and authored numerous chapters in books, most recently "Managing Arts Programs in Healthcare" edited by Patricia Dewey. Annette received numerous awards including Founders Award from HFSE, Lifetime Achievement in Arts in Healthcare, 1st place for Art in the Patient Environment from the Int'l Academy for Design and Health, Generative Space Award for St. Joseph Oakland Hospital and in 2016 won the International Award for Valley Children’s Hospital. Recently Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital won First Place in the Hamilton International Arts in Health Awards for integrating art into the environment for the project led by Annette and Aesthetics. In addition, The Aesthetics team won the Health and Wellness Design Award in 2015 and 2016 for their environmental graphics work by Graphic Design USA 2016.
Annette is currently the chapter leader on art in the environment for the soon to be published NOAH Arts in Health Care Curriculum which will lead to certification for both professional artists, arts consultants, and arts administrators.
Annette leads a design team of 8 that designs strategic plans for Healthcare Arts programs, facilitates the development and installation of arts programs,(both visual, participative and performing), designs and creates environmental graphics that recognize and tell stories of innovation, leadership, philanthropy, and history. Annette has been an early proponent on the use of technology and art and facilitates a variety of interactive multimedia. With projects throughout North America, the Aesthetics team utilizes a public process to engage the community and regional artists, museums and cultural institutions in all of their projects. Annette also assists healthcare organizations in the design of evaluation and research projects for art programs.
For the past 10 years, she has advised and guided Hospital foundations in developing of fundraising plans for their arts programs.
Annette is co-founder of Aesthetics Audio Systems, a national firm providing evidence-based sound and music solutions for health care environments, now producing the Rejuvenation Station™ evidence-based relaxation system addressing burnout for caregivers.
Her design leadership assists clients in maintaining the original vision and values of the project through the long and complex stages of design and construction.
Annette was trained as an artist and has been a part-time studio potter for 50 years.
Alan Siegel, M.D.
Lead, NOAH Clinician Well-being & Burnout Group; Lead, NOAH Covid Clinician Project (NOAH's ARC - Art for Resilience in Clinicians), National Organization for Arts in Health
doctoralan@gmail.com
Dr. Alan Siegel has worked since 1999 as a Family Physician within the Bay Area’s Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS). Within CCHS, he founded and directs Art of Health and Healing since late 2010. In this role, he started a thriving Expressive Arts Therapy training program. Alan has worked on improving Healing Environments, providing Therapeutic Musicians in the ICU and wards, developing a Therapy Pets program, helping to develop the community-based Stress Relief Through the Arts, and starting wellness classes. He has also led and grown a unique staff program, Healing Through Creativity, over the last 12 years.
Alan joined the board of the National Organization (NOAH) as a founding member in January 2018. He leads the efforts to build Regional Networks across the country. He has also initiated the NOAH Clinician Well-being & Burnout Group. Together, they have started NOAH’s ARC – Art for Resilience in Clinicians, which utilizes the arts to address the deleterious effects of COVID-19 on our frontline healthcare workers.
Alan has also provided leadership for the renowned Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program, specializing in ambulatory education and faculty development. He has completed a UCSF Champion of Change Fellow. He became interested in Arts in Health through his previous work on the board of ArtsChange, an arts empowerment organization, and through his passion as a musician. He leads an R&B/Motown/Blues band, The Rhythm Method.
Cynthia D. Perlis
Founder and Former Director, Ernest H. Rosenbaum Art for Recovery Program at UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF Art for Recovery
cynthia.perlis@ucsf.edu
Cindy Perlis has been director of Art for Recovery since its inception in 1988. She retired in January 2020 and will be returning in May 2020, to the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center to write a book on artwork by cancer patients as well as other special projects. As Director of this award-winning program, she has created and facilitated numerous art and healing programs including the Breast Cancer Quilts Project, Firefly Project, Employee Well-Being Project, Healing Garden Music Series, the Open Art Studio for anyone dealing with cancer at Mission Bay and Mount Zion, writing workshops, art workshops on the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, and Hematology/Oncology Dept., and the Precision Cancer Medicine Building Canvas Project. In addition, in collaboration with the UCSF Department of Medical Humanities, Cindy has published: The Firefly Project: Conversations about what it means to be alive, Bedside Manners: What to say and what not to say when someone is ill, The Portable Artist Workbook and The Portable Artist Coloring Book, the Art for Recovery Book of Prompts, and Prompts for Reflection, and The Postcard Quote Project. In the spring of 2018, the Patient as Teacher Anthology was published. As an artist, Cindy writes, paints, draws and works in mixed media. She, along with her Art for Recovery staff have painted eight murals (six on the ceilings of the Ultrasound suites) throughout UCSF and worked with architects to create the Mount Zion Meditation Room. She is currently serving on the Mission Bay Core Committee for Arts and Interiors for the new cancer center, and the UCSF Patient Family Advisory Board. Her career began doing research in the 18th and 19th Century American Painting and Sculpture, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution.
website: cancer.ucsf.edu/afr | Email: cynthia.perlis@ucsf.edu
Napoleon Dargan, PsyD
Health Psychologist, Contra Costa Health Services; Director, Stress Reduction Through the Arts (recently applied to teens with pediatric obesity)
drdarganjr@gmail.com
Art of Health and Healing
Northern California Arts & Health Alliance
Napoleon Dargan, PsyD is a Multi-media Artist, Researcher, Healer, Integrated Health Psychologist and Clinical Director of an arts-based clinical program out of Contra Costa County, “Stress Reduction Through the Arts.” He is devoted to providing access to high quality, culturally competent, integrated health care to all, but more specifically to our most vulnerable populations - being people of color and low socioeconomic status. Also known as Dr. Q, he has a developing expertise in utilizing the arts in a unique evidence-based approach to help patients rapidly assess, identify, and address common behavioral health concerns. His programs have been applied to high-risk adults and teenagers with pediatric obesity. They have shown dramatic results for depression and anxiety and have received very high reviews. He also sits on the board of Art of Health and Healing, in addition to Contra Costa County’s Friends of Arts and Culture Commission. On a windy day, you can catch him flying kites or painting a piece of art about deprivation.
Naj Wikoff
NOAH; National Marketing Director, Aesthetics, Inc.
naj.wikoff@gmail.com
Naj Wikoff, a visual artist, is the National Marketing Director for Aesthetics, Inc., the San Diego-based arts in health consulting firm and serves as Vice President of the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH). Wikoff, an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University, is a founding member of Lesley’s Institute for Arts in Health and the National Initiative for the Arts in Health in the Military. He is the former director of the Healing Arts program of the C. Everett Koop Institute at the Dartmouth Medical School and of Arts and Productions at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City.
Twenty-two years ago, Wikoff established Creative Healing Connections, which uses the arts and nature to support the healing of women living with cancer, military spouses, and veteran and active duty servicewomen living with PTSD and Military Sexual Trauma. The two-time Fulbright Senior Scholar regularly consults on arts and health, healing spaces, and arts and trauma issues to health and arts institutions, and has worked with victims of terror and war in Palestine and Israel. In addition, for the past twelve years, as arts coordinator for Connecting Youth and Community, Wikoff has been using the arts to reduce the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs by teens.