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Vanderbilt University School of Medicine students, from left, Sophie Schellhammer, Wyatt Cole and Mike Libre formed a program that brings artwork into the rooms of patients at Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital.
July 28, 2023

VUMC Community Art Initiative call for medical student art

The Association of American Medical Colleges and Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine Art of Diagnosis Program, sponsored by the Gordan and Betty Moore Foundation, awarded Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Community Art Initiative (CAI) $5,000 to support an exhibition of medical student art.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 6, 2023

Scottish artist’s innovative works move from Cheekwood to VUMC

Craig Black’s paintings, in both 2-D and 3-D, are now on display in TVC

By VUMC News and Communications
February 2, 2023

Radiology’s Brent Savoie turns radiological imagery into lavish dreamscapes

A world that blends the intricacies of marine life and human form: neuroanatomy that looks like coral, the body reimagined as a jellyfish, or an “X-ray aquarium.”

By VUMC News and Communications
October 26, 2022

Lori Anne Parker-Danley used pandemic time to learn quilting and create her “pandemic quilt”

Improv quilting stitched together her hours during the pandemic

By Jill Clendening
April 22, 2022

In delicate three-day operation, two-ton bronze sculpture removed from VUH lobby, packed for shipping to Chicago

Cylinder in a Prism by Italian-born artist Virginio Ferrari was handled with care by expert crew

By Wayne Wood
April 22, 2021

A young doctor wrote of a life-or-death moment caring for a patient. The New England Journal of Medicine published it as a graphic novel.

A terrifying tale from her first weekend on call.

By Emily Stembridge
April 20, 2021

The inside story behind the Hillsboro Village “Hope” mural: a brother’s love and a message for Children’s Hospital

Lance Gregory wanted the message to be visible from the windows of Children's Hospital — in memory of his brother Cory
By Christina Echegaray
October 29, 2020

Grant helps expand VI4’s Artist-in-Residence program

An innovative Vanderbilt program that brings together scientists and artists with the shared goal of scientific communication is set to expand with support from a three-year grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
By Leigh MacMillan
March 18, 2020

Artist hopes mural brightens days at Children’s Hospital

At Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, bunnies in space helmets swirl around the rings of Saturn. A bunny speeds by the sun in a spaceship. Another rides across the sky in a hot air balloon.
By Christina Echegaray
October 10, 2019

VUMC has 2,500 pieces of art. Jenny Lewis knows them all.

Portraits, landscapes, sculptures — health care art is an art in itself
By Kelsey Herbers
March 27, 2019

Nurse creates artwork inspired by Vanderbilt’s orthopaedic patients

Recycled paper and expired test tubes find new life in colorful greetings for patients
By Kelsey Herbers
February 4, 2019

A Children’s Hospital parking valet taught himself origami art so he could share it with children. For one little boy, that simple gesture means everything.

Coming in for treatment is hard for 5-year-old Ollie Faircloth, but seeing valet Mohamed Elshami brings a smile every time. Ollie calls Mohamed his friend. Mohamed calls Ollie his hero.
By Nancy Humphrey
July 30, 2018

Wait a minute — that sculpture outside Medical Center North was created by the guy who did the theme to “The Dating Game?”

Turns out, the guy who led the Tijuana Brass also worked in bronze
By Wayne Wood
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