The Arts at Yale Health
The Arts at Yale Health endeavors to create an environment that is visually and intellectually stimulating and promotes the health and wellness goals Yale has for the community we serve. It recognizes the value of art in creating vibrant, inclusive spaces, and through this initiative, seeks to perpetually enhance the experience its members have when seeking care. With this program, Yale Health also strives to create new and sustaining ties to artists with any of a variety of Yale affiliations, whether as students, faculty, staff, or others, to promote the talent and generosity within this rich community. Read more about the history of this program and the details of our most recent installation here.
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Spring 2024 Arts at Yale Health Open Call Submission
Submissions closed on April 12, 2024. Notifications will go out the week of April 22, 2024.
The Arts at Yale Health Dedicated to Memory of Colleague
The Heather Smith Memorial Arts at Yale Health is dedicated to the memory of Heather Smith, a colleague, and friend who passed away from cancer. She was Yale Health’s communications officer for 15 years.
Smith, who ran her own professional photography business along with her Yale responsibilities, was instrumental in getting the arts program up and running along with Meredith Miller, a senior photographer at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and a 2003 graduate from the Yale University School of Art. The first pieces of artwork created by members of the Yale community went on display throughout the Yale Health Center in February 2019.
“If you look at every part of what we’ve done with the arts program, Heather has been at the center of it,” said Peter Steere, RPh, MBA, Yale Health’s chief operating officer. “She helped determine where we hung the art, she did the website materials, and she was important in the jury process as to what was accepted because she really has a fine eye. She appreciated art of all kinds and really had a vision for this. She helped take it from an idea to a program.”
Steere also praised Smith for her leadership in Yale Health’s communications to the Yale community during her 15-year career, which included the move from 17 Hillhouse Avenue to the Yale Health Center in 2010 and messaging around the COVID-19 pandemic over the past few years.
“Heather, nearly single-handedly, shaped how people saw our organization and how they learned about us, who we are, and what we do,” Steere said. “Her guidance around how best to reach our community, to describe the quality of our care, was routinely outstanding.”
Fall 2022
Artists in the Exhibition Currently on Display
Helen Arjmandi FLOOR 3
Yale Spouse
The Paradise of Harmony, 2019 Acrylic painting on wood
The Healing Mother Earth, 2022 Wood burning, acrylic painting, gold gilding
Growing Through Barbed Wires, 2019 Acrylic painting on wood
Alyssa Arre FLOOR LL
Yale University Ph.D. 2021, Psychology
Rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) and newborn among the flowers, 2017 Photograph
Rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) and newborn, 2018 Photograph
Rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) and infant, 2018 Photograph
Rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) grooming session, 2016 Photograph
Joan Cho FLOOR 2
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Health Center
The Wedding Bow, 2021 Watercolor
Chris Ferguson FLOOR 1
Yale Spouse
The Lights on the Bridge, 2020 Oil on canvas
Heather Gendron FLOOR 4
Director, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
I Care, 2022 Woven textile
Lisa Kereszi FLOOR 2
Critic, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale School of Art
Yale School of Art, MFA 2000
Flowers in my shadow belly, Conn., 2016 Archival inkjet print
Nan holding her mother’s hands, Hazleton, Penna., 2005 Archival inkjet print
Esthea Kim FLOOR 1
Yale Spouse
Companion, 2021 Acrylic, dye and ink on linen
Beth Klingher FLOOR 2
Yale Spouse
Connections, 2020 Mosaic
Daye (Catherine) Kwon FLOOR LL
Undergraduate, Yale College
Hold my Hand, 2022 Watercolor on paper
Beth Lovell FLOOR 2
Executive Associate, Yale School of Art
Polar Bear, 2021
Fox, 2021
Brown Bears, 2021
Redbird, 2021
Riding Hood, 2021
Deer, 2021
Dog in Window, 2021
Cat in Window, 2021
Girl in Window, 2021
House and Moon, 2021
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Campfire, 2021
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Road Trip, 2021
Collage of ink-stained book pages
Ken Lovell FLOOR 3
Yale School of Art, MFA 1992
Old Man of the Mountain, 2020 Flashe paint on canvas mounted to panel
John Mayes II & Taylor Mayes FLOOR 4
Father & Daughter Duo, Peabody Museum
Natural Science Illustration Program Students
Cardinal (JM), 2020 Drawing on Bristol paper
Tulip (JM), 2020 Drawing on Bristol paper
Cardinal (TM), 2020 Drawing on Bristol paper
Tulip (TM), 2020 Drawing on Bristol paper
Racquel Miller FLOOR 4
Events Coordinator, Yale Quantum Institute
After the Storm, 2021 Acrylic
Always, 2021 Acrylic
Mountain Stream, 2021 Acrylic
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Where Dreams Begin, 2021 Acrylic
Deep in My Soul, 2021 Acrylic
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Changing Seasons, 2021 Acrylic
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A Spring Song, 2022 Acrylic
MJ Millington & Witt Fisher FLOOR 2
Staff Member, Beinecke Library & Son, age four
Storywriting, 2021 Watercolor and ink on paper, waxed and mounted to panel
Alex Puz FLOOR 2
Yale University School of Art, MFA 2022
Oxytocin, 2021 Flashe vinyl acrylic on canvas
Wall of Flowers, 2021 Flashe vinyl acrylic on canvas
Gabriela Svenningsen FLOOR 3
Staff Member, Yale University Art Gallery
Quilt Dreams, 2022 Watercolor, ink and colored pencils
Aliaksandra Tucha FLOOR 2
Undergraduate, Yale College
Grandmother and Mother Tending to the Kitchen Garden, 2020 Digital photograph
Ann Zhang FLOOR LL
Undergraduate, Yale College
Untitled (1), 2022 Inkjet photo print
Untitled (2), 2022 Inkjet photo print