Meet our new Visual Arts in Healthcare Faculty Director, Dr. Staci Eisenberg.

Maya Srinivasan, Bonomi-Matty Visual Arts in Healthcare Research Fellow and BWH Surgical Resident, just received the 2025-2026 Dr. Kathryn Ko Artist in Residence Award, highlighting her artistic talents.  The American Women’s Medical Association - Dr. Kathryn Ko Artist in Residence Award “was started in 2015 by Studio AMWA to promote women members in the arts. The role of the artist in residence is to create an artistic project that is pertinent to AMWA and women in medicine.” (AMWA website) Read Maya’s blog post about this award and connections between her artwork and surgical career.

Learn more about a new Visual Arts in Healthcare program for nursing residents, helping them to become confident healthcare providers.

HMS Graduate Student, Andrew Kwok, interviews members of the Visual Arts in Healthcare Program Advisory Committee.

Learn more about Massachusetts pioneering Social Prescribing program and an exciting partnership between Mass General Brigham and Art Pharmacy to launch this work.

During a 10 day period, we held two three hour workshops at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon. Exercises were selected to teach intentional observation, evidence based interpretation, careful communication, and reflection on the challenges and successes that we experience in our profession.

As a member of the CVAH Visual Arts Advisory Committee, I was invited to observe a two-hour program for a group of Brigham & Women’s Hospital Junior Residents at the Harvard Art Museums. I was grateful and gladly accepted

The Center for Visual Arts in Healthcare at Brigham & Women’s Hospital celebrates turning 1 this year.

A first of it’s kind exhibition based on a medical humanities program at the Harvard Art Museums, featuring a cross-disciplinary partnership between museum staff and clinicians.

Authors, Ruby Guo and Helen Wang, share their experiences and take-aways from this long running visual arts based course at Harvard Medical School. Discover the connections they made between art and medicine.

How do I choose artwork for Art & Medicine workshops with healthcare providers? It is almost intuitive now, but upon reflection I focused on 4 main ingredients.

On a cold late afternoon in January, our team of 12 physicians and scientists gathered at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. We represent five nationalities and many different areas of biomedical expertise.

The CVAH Blog welcomes writers exploring the connections between visual arts and healthcare to contribute. This month discover a visual arts pilot program, MD Candidate Kain Kim, created for her fellow medical students at Emory University School of Medicine

A few weeks ago, second-year medical students visited the Harvard Art Museum for an afternoon of art, group poetry, and self-reflection. I had the opportunity to lead a group of students through these activities, and as a second-year student myself, I found myself reflecting on the afternoon from the perspective of a facilitator and a peer

Over ten years ago, I was asked to teach a group of medical doctors who were visiting the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for a pilot program focusing on integrating the arts into medical residency.…