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Friday, January 8, 1999
Artwork Brightens Duke Patients' Visits
Art by N.C. artists in patient
rooms, a Touchable Art
Gallery and poetry groups
heal Duke Hospital patients.
By Erin YVyma
Arts & Diversions Editor
“Patch Adams,” Universal Pictures’
Christmas Day release, tells the story of
a doctor who believes patients heal bet
ter when those caring for them offer
them personal attention. Like Patch
Adams, the Cultural Services
Department at Durham’s Duke
University Medical Center seeks to
enrich the lives of patients through the
personal attention and healing power of
the arts.
“We think that if art enhances our
lives in general, surely it would enhance
the stay of a person in a patient room,”
said Samuel Morrison, the department’s
visual arts coordinator.
Morrison said that in his job, he con
centrated on integrating artwork into
patients’ lives. He said the main way the
department provided access to the arts
came through the hospital’s collection of
more than 2,000 works of art, most of
them hung in patients’ rooms.
“We try to have a piece of artwork by
an N.C. artist in every room,” he said.
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Instead of buying prints, Morrison
said, the department emphasized pur
chasing original works of art by North
Carolina’s homegrown artists. The
department runs its artwork program
with the help of grants from arts agen
cies like the Durham Arts Council and
through the cooperation of N.C. artists.
Morrison said the artwork hung in
the hallways served as landmarks for
patient’s navigating the hospital’s con
fusing corridors. He also said the three
hallway art exhibits brought the artists
closer to the hospital community.
“This gives exposure to the artists ...
(they have) contact with people in the
hallway,” he said.
Cam Busch, public relations director
of the American Art Therapy
Association, said programs like Duke’s,
which began in 1979, incorporated the
entire hospital community of nurses,
doctors, administrators and patients. She
said these programs have spurred a
national movement of using the arts to
create a less sterile environment in
which to heal patients.
“The art is being incorporated into
health care,” she said.
With more than 37,000 inpatients vis
iting the hospital each year, Duke
University Medical Center serves more
people than any other hospital in North
Carolina. With more than 13,000 staff
and students, the hospital also employs
Navy Admiral William Crowe, a former
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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and other agencies of giving low priori
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abroad. It found no evidence that any
employee of the government, including
the armed services, did not fulfill duty.
“However, we believe there was a
collective failure by several administra
tions and congresses over the past
decades to invest adequate efforts and
resources to reduce vulnerability of
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The hospital’s arts programs reach
not only the patients receiving treatment
at Duke but also the faculty and staff at
the hospital.
Morrison said that in the past, Duke
has displayed work by both patients, fac
ulty and staff members. Now, he said,
the department brought a quilt exhibit
called “The Healing Gardens” to the
hospital.
Some of the
quilts, which con
tain pictures of
plants used to treat
cancer, were creat
ed by cancer
patients, Morrison
said. The exhibit
comes as part of a
tour sponsored by
the Society for the
We think that if art enhances
our lives in general, surely it
would enhance the stay of a
person in a patient room. ”
Samuel Morrison
Duke Hospital Cultural Services Department
Arts in Healthcare, an organization ded
icated to enhancing the lives of hospital
patients through the arts. Past presidents
of the association have includedjanice
Palmer, director of Duke’s Cultural
Services Department.
But Duke does not limit its services to
patients with the ability to see. For
patients with limited vision, the depart
ment operates a Touchable Art Gallery
in the Duke University Eye Center.
Betty Haskin, the gallery’s coordina
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people of all visual capabilities, it con
tained objects accessible specifically by
the visually impaired.
Sculptures of African origin, masks,
pottery and paintings with raised sur
faces line the gallery’s walls and shelves.
In the gallery, run completely by volun
teers, visitors may pick up any object
and run their fingers over its shapes.
Haskin said the department received
positive feedback
from many of the
gallery’s visitors.
“I just had a
woman this morn
ing tell me how
wonderful it (the
gallery) was,” she
said. “That’s the
thing we do best.
It’s a pleasant
diversion, it does-
n’t take energy, it doesn’t build stress.
It’s just a neutral place.”
Haskin said she always looked for
other ways to bring art into patients’
lives. She said she was now applying for
a grant to bring ajapanese ceramic artist
to work with Duke patients who attend
school at the Governor Morehead
School for the Blind in Raleigh.
In the past, Duke has also reached out
to patients through other artistic medi
ums besides art Carolyn Leith, program
the soldiers.
There was some rough pushing and
shoving as the soldiers tried to keep the
crowd from advancing beyond the
checkpoint.
Hebron, a city of 130,000 Palestinians
and 450 Jewish settlers, is one of the
tensest areas in the West Bank.
On Monday, assailants believed to be
Palestinian militants opened fire on a
van in the center of town, injuring two
Jewish settlers.
In response, the army imposed a cur
few on the downtown area it controls,
barring Palestinian residents from leav
ing their homes.
Troops also sealed Hebron, meaning
Palestinians cannot enter or leave the
city.
In the past year, Hebron has been
under curfew and siege repeatedly, and
Palestinian resentment against Israel has
grown.
“We demand the closure and curfew
be lifted because they are inhumane,”
Natche said in Thursday’s march.
Soldiers at other points in the city
shot a few rubber-coated bullets at
Palestinian stone throwers. There were
assistant for the Cultural Services
Department, said the hospital ran a
singing program called Room Service
from 1992-1994. The program brought
local musicians to perform in patients’
rooms.
Leith said that while grant money ran
out for that program, the department
was trying to gather enough volunteers
from the hospital staff to run the pro
gram again.
Patients at Duke may also participate
in poetry groups. Leith said her depart
ment brought poets to discuss their work
with patients and staff as well as to help
them create poetry of their own.
Poetry therapy, a form of creative arts
therapy, incorporates analysis of litera
ture and comparison of the work’s
themes to real-life situations, according
to the National Coalition of Arts
Therapies Associations. When the poets
lead round-table discussions, they help
staff and patients apply the poetry to
their own thoughts and feelings.
Morrison said he hoped his depart
ment’s arts services would give patients
a pleasant experience to bolster the
effects of their treatment.
“We do hope the art provides an
environment which would augment
healing,” he said.
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“We demand the closure
and curfew be lifted
because they are
inhumane. ”
Mustafa Natche
Mayor of Hebron
no reports of injuries.
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By Patricia D. Wright
Staff Writer
Since arriving on campus nearly four
months ago, Dean of Students Meliss'a
Exum said she set out to improve the
University as a whole and to interact
with students on a professional and per
sonal level.
Exum, who served as the associate
vice president of student affairs at Ohio
University, said she wanted to find out
what was going on around campus by
attending meetings by student organi
zations such as the Black Student
Movement and the Women’s Issues
Network. “I want to know what students
are interested in, what they like about
Carolina and even what they don’t lilt?
about Carolina,” she said.
Exum, who started her job Sept. 28,
said she planned to create programs 4o
address student issues. “I want to do an
outreach as it relates to things such g
sexual harassment and binge drinking,) 1
She said these programs would be
created by committees formed within;
the chancellor’s task forces.
“I am part of the Chancellor’s
Diversity Task Force, the Substance
Abuse Task Force, the Rape Awareness,
Committee and the Sexual Harassment
Advisory Council,” she said.
Exum said she wanted to meet with'
students who were on these committees'
and get their input on the programs.
While concentrating on student;
issues, Exum said she wanted to shift
the focus from the judicial aspect of stu
dent affairs. “Student Affairs brings up
the idea of what I call the ‘uh-oh’ syn
drome - ‘Uh-oh, we have to go see the
dean.’”
Events such as a video conference on
racial legacies to be held Jan. 27 would
help broaden the duties of Student
Affairs, Exum said. “With events like
this Student Affairs can be a proactive
unit, not one that carries out rules.”
Exum said she often interacted with,
students on campus. “If they are sitting
in the Pit, or just hanging on the wall, I
will just go up to them and start talking)”
Exum’s effort to interact with stu
dents is perceived in a positive way, said
Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Sue
Kitchen. Exum brings sensitivity to the
students, Kitchen said. “She has a caring
way and connects with them.”
Exum also has the support of student
organizations. Graduate and
Professional Student Federation
President Bryan Kennedy said Exum
was in touch with students. “Dr. Exum
cares about what we need and want.” ;*
Exum said she had enjoyed her time
at UNC so much that she had made
meals, cakes and pies for students. “This
is my way to give to students what they
give to me.”
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