Arts & Healing: How the Arts Contribute to Health & Wellbeing

“Having artwork in the hospital made me feel human again,” a patient at Duke University Hospital.
The arts have increasingly been integrated in health centers due to the creative arts’ positive impact on our mental, emotional and physical wellbeing. In this guide we shed light on the various ways that hospital art collections and artists are employing arts in medicine—changing hospitals from scary, sterile facilities into welcoming and engaging centers.