You have two options for this written assignment; you only need to do one of them.
Option One: Visit an art museum.
Option Two: Examine art displayed in your place of employment as a nurse.
The purpose of the assignment is to reflect on the impact of culture on art, and art on culture; to integrate cognitive and affective responses into culturally congruent nursing care, and to appreciate the role of art in healing the body, mind, and spirit. Developing art appreciation expands and enhances our knowledge about human history and how this history influences contemporary life.
View the entire collection of a particular museum exhibit or workplace art slowly, reflecting on each piece, writing down your thoughts and feelings as you proceed through the exhibit. Take pictures of your favorite pieces to include in your assignment.
Write a 2 page reflection describing the location you visited, and commenting on how this experience affected you as you observed and engaged with the art.
Why did you choose particular pieces to photograph?
How did they make you feel, and how they might have a role in healing for a patient or family member?
Why is art in the clinical environment something that hospita
ls would spend money on?
Note your overall impression of the art experience, and how it relates to your understanding and appreciation of the role of art in healing, body, mind, and spirit.
Museum Suggestions
Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy Andover (free); londonessays.com to an external site.
Boston College, McMullen Art Museum (free); londonessays.com to an external site.
Boston Public Library – Murals on Religion and Culture by John Singer Sargent (free); www.bpl.orgLinks to an external site.
Contemporary Art Museum in Lincoln, MA (admission fee) www.ClarkGallery.comLinks to an external site.
Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA (admission fee); londonessays.com to an external site.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (free with EC ID card see attached); londonessays.com to an external site.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (free with EC ID card and pass from EC library) www.mfa.orgLinks to an external site.
Museum of Russian Icons (admission fee); londonessays.com to an external site.
Peabody Essex Museum (admission fee), Salem; www.pem.orgLinks to an external site.
Wellesley College, Davis Museum of Art & Culture, (free); www.wellesley.eduLinks to an external site.