Healing Walls: New York City Health + Hospitals Community Mural Project 2019-2021 — Book now available

100% of sales of Healing Walls will benefit NYC Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine programs

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The book Healing Walls: New York City Health + Hospitals Community Mural Project 2019-2021 commemorates the Community Mural Project, a flagship of the NYC Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine Program. The unique initiative, supported by the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, is designed to encourage creativity, lower stress, build trust and increase engagement between hospital staff and members of their surrounding communities. The murals also create space for joy as well as healing for patients and frontline medical workers who are always under enormous pressure and were hit especially hard during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Community Mural Project builds upon a mural tradition that began in the 1930s when the Works Progress Administration (WPA) supported the creation of murals in virtually every New York public hospital. Along with the newly created murals, Healing Walls documents many WPA-era hospital murals with new scholarship by Whitney Museum curator Barbara Haskell, along with photographs of extant murals in the hospitals as well as archival images.

100% of all sales of Healing Walls: New York City Health + Hospitals Community Mural Project 2019-2021 will benefit the NYC Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine programs.

Flipbook sections

• Table of Contents
• Foreword – Laurie M. Tisch
• Arts in Health: The Path to Partnership – Rick Luftglass
• Healing Arts: New York City’s Depression-era Hospital Murals – Barbara Haskell
• Hard Times, Healing Walls – Abigail Zuger, MD
• The Power of Community: New York City Health + Hospitals Community Mural Project – Linh Dang
• The Murals – Photographs by Nicholas Knight and others
  • Bronx
  • Brooklyn
  • Manhattan
  • Queens
  • Staten Island
  • 50 Water Street (Central Office)
• Acknowledgements
• Artist Biographies

Vanesa Álvarez — Ellie Balk — Viktoriya Basina — Kelie Bowman — Nancy Saleme and Patricia Cazorla — Sophia Chizuco — Daryl Myntia Daniels — Priscila De Carvalho — Yana Dimitrova — Angel Garcia — Andrei Krautsou and Yuliya Puhach (aka Key Detail) — Luis Fernando Lechón — Oscar Lett — Cara Lynch — Jessie Novik — Renzo Ortega — Frank Parga — Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya — Natasha May Platt — Imani Shanklin Roberts — Arantxa Ximena Rodriguez — Tova Snyder — Peach Tao — Dannielle Tegeder — Carla Torres — Ibtisam Tasnim Zaman

• Credits