MONROE - The Monroe Arts Center recently installed its first exhibition at the new Monroe Clinic hospital facility.
The clinic last year approved MAC's proposal to mount four exhibitions annually at the clinic's new hospital on approximately 200 lineal feet of wall space. The MAC exhibit space is distributed among all four floors.
Elsie Berget, Shelbee Matis and Mark Pflughoeft each have several works on display on the upper three floors and the Driftless Area Artists, an association of Green County artists, has a group exhibit on the lower floor, including work by Kathleen D'Angelo, Sarah Aslakson, Jeanne Ausmus, Chuck Bauer, Roger Dorneden, Tina Duemler, Sue Ivanko, Kathy King, Dunnell Kendrick-Parker, M.T. Main, Jane Olson, Nicole Saugstad, Joan Stackpole, Helen Stauffer, Jeanne Stietz, and Terry Tackett.
Kendrick-Parker, MAC gallery director, developed the exhibition season for the clinic and installed the first exhibit.
"There is a growing understanding by health professionals about the healing power of art, and not only for patients but for hospital staff as well. Patients, in health care facilities that attend to the arts, report that the quality of care is higher. Staff morale and retention is higher at these facilities as well," said MAC executive director Richard Daniels. "Art therapy is not a new field of study and practice, but its legitimacy is becoming more widely accepted. Partnerships between arts organizations and health care facilities, though now relatively rare, will eventually become commonplace."
The clinic last year approved MAC's proposal to mount four exhibitions annually at the clinic's new hospital on approximately 200 lineal feet of wall space. The MAC exhibit space is distributed among all four floors.
Elsie Berget, Shelbee Matis and Mark Pflughoeft each have several works on display on the upper three floors and the Driftless Area Artists, an association of Green County artists, has a group exhibit on the lower floor, including work by Kathleen D'Angelo, Sarah Aslakson, Jeanne Ausmus, Chuck Bauer, Roger Dorneden, Tina Duemler, Sue Ivanko, Kathy King, Dunnell Kendrick-Parker, M.T. Main, Jane Olson, Nicole Saugstad, Joan Stackpole, Helen Stauffer, Jeanne Stietz, and Terry Tackett.
Kendrick-Parker, MAC gallery director, developed the exhibition season for the clinic and installed the first exhibit.
"There is a growing understanding by health professionals about the healing power of art, and not only for patients but for hospital staff as well. Patients, in health care facilities that attend to the arts, report that the quality of care is higher. Staff morale and retention is higher at these facilities as well," said MAC executive director Richard Daniels. "Art therapy is not a new field of study and practice, but its legitimacy is becoming more widely accepted. Partnerships between arts organizations and health care facilities, though now relatively rare, will eventually become commonplace."
