Still Life, a partnership between Art Force and The Creative Center at University Settlement, brings artists living with illness and healthcare organizations together. Providing creative arts programming and art installments from professional artists living with illness, Still Life is intended for placement in healthcare settings to uplift and inspire all hospital users – patients, visitors and staff alike.

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Designed to create a community of healing, Still Life cultivates a social enterprise where financial return meets measurable social impact. Professional artists living with illness have inspiring stories to tell about their journey. Share in their journey today!

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Still Life represents an entirely new business model, combining the best of the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds. Leslie Palmer-Ross, Director of Healthcare and Art Services at Art Force and Robin Glazer, Director of The Creative Center, curated a compelling collection of evidence-based imagery gathered from professional artists living with illness.

Like brush strokes, no two stories are ever exactly the same. Some stories are playful while others are thought provoking and inspiring. Yet somewhere between the piles of canvases and pictures – each unique and beautiful in their own right – a shared experience emerges. Untold meaning and inspiration await for people who need it most.

From each of its founding partners, unique talents and perspectives combine to create a program with the viewer and artist in mind:

Art Force: The program benefits from the experience of Art Force, the premier provider of artwork nationally, which provides all art services including matting, framing and standardizing scalable production.

The Creative Center: The program builds on the twenty plus years of experience of The Creative Center, an organization which offers art experiences to patients, families and staff in healthcare facilities across the U.S.

Painting transition in landscape is a metaphor for the possibility of swift and positive change.  Through art, I define myself as human, not as one who suffers.  Art is hope.
– Aleta Wynn Yarrow, [Read Bio]

Art has always been a part of my life and is necessary to my wellbeing. Following my diagnosis and successful treatment for cancer I have immersed myself with greater intensity in my creative activities.
– Cecily Firestein, [Read Bio]

I live to paint. After my injury, art became my therapy in both a psychological and physical sense. I stretch and move my hands and body in needed movements while I enjoy the act of creation.
– Cliff Enright, [Read Bio]

With severe illness I lost the balance in much of my life; health, work, and overall abilities. Creating works of art re-centered me and restored my sense of self.
– Donna Caulton, [Read Bio]

My landscape drawings provide patients with a sense of calm in the midst of fear and exhaustion. Similarly, as a cancer survivor, creating my art has provided much serenity and healing.
– Donna Levinstone, [Read Bio]

As a 33-year cancer survivor (breast, lymph, lung & colon), painting has continuously engaged and challenged me to explore my inner world and wisdom.  This is where I believe all healing starts!
– Judith Hinton Andrew, [Read Bio]

I paint as though I have only this day to touch paint and see color.  My reaction to facing the unknown and not recognizing myself in the mirror, in pain, was to paint as though there was no tomorrow. It was always this attitude by which I live and paint.
– Lorna Ritz, [Read Bio]

When cancer entered my life I started walking about with a camera, searching. It was a form of meditation and the pictures I captured allowed me to enjoy those moments in time, again and again. At that point I realized I wanted to teach people to open their senses and experience the full range of what they see. Because – to see is a gift!
– Paula Goldfader, [Read Bio]

We live in a world of far too much chaos, confusion and sometimes even outrage causing so much stress in our lives (which also brings on illness).  With my art, I seek to counteract all that, to paint the ever constant inspiration of the beauty and life that exists in nature with the hope that it also resonates within the viewer as a healing contemplative relief as it has been to me.
– Sarah E. McHugh, [Read Bio]

For purposes of presentation, the images above are not to scale.

If you are a healthcare provider interested in purchasing images from the Still Life Collection, we would like to hear from you.

Please contact us or request a Free Art Consultation below!