Connections Made Visible: Visualizing Patient Connections Through The Work of Nancy Corrigan, Artist on the Wards

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This exhibition focuses on the work of the Friends of University Hospitals’ Staff Artist on the Wards, Nancy Corrigan, who has been working with the program since she helped establish it in 1999. The cart full of art materials that she carefully maneuvers throughout the public and clinical spaces in the University Hospital is symbolic of the far-reaching and adaptable nature of what she does. Nancy’s presence is disarming while travelling to meet patients – bringing light, beauty and generative energy in a place where it is very much needed. The murals, sculptures, and individual drawings seen here were completed by patients under Nancy’s guidance – mostly in group scenarios. 

-curated by Tyler Sherard

“Often with art groups over the years I facilitated introductory visual games such as dropping pebbles and marking where they land but talking about the journey the pebbles may have had or drawing lines to each other in a group on the same page. They are fun and cohesive. Eventually I realized these are CONNECTIONS MADE VISIBLE and to see that as an art itself. ”

— Nancy Corrigan