Arts and Healing at Inova: 2022 Donor Impact Update

ARTS AND HEALING

2022 Donor Impact Update

Thank You for Your Support

Thank you for supporting the Arts and Healing Program at Inova Schar Cancer Institute. You are helping us minimize suffering and restore wellbeing by creating a beautiful and peaceful environment to promote healing and wellness.

The Arts and Healing program is 100% funded through philanthropy and we are so grateful for you and those who make it possible like our local artists and The Arts Selection Committee. In this report, we are pleased to share the impact of your partnership to create meaningful opportunities for stress reduction, relaxation and healing.

With

gratitude, Sage Bolte, PhD, LCSW, CST Chief Philanth and President Inova Health F

What's New

What's Next

In 2023, we will be expanding our Artist-in-Residence program to serve even more patients and team members. The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery will have four new fine art exhibits rotating quarterly. And we will be outfitting two expanded Inova Schar infusion clinics at Fairfax and Fair Oaks, plus a new Surgical Oncology Clinic at Fair Oaks.

Meet Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn Thrush is the new Program Coordinator for the Arts and Healing program at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute and has been with Inova for almost four years Kaitlyn received her BFA in Dance and BA in Health Communication from the State University at Buffalo and graduated with her Master of Public Health degree in May 2022. Kaitlyn has a passion for incorporating the arts into health care settings and in her free time, Kaitlyn likes to teach dance at a local studio, travel, and cuddle up to her senior pit bulls.

Arts and Healing Program expands across Inova's footprint to five campuses.

Loudoun Expansion

Inova recently expanded our Arts and Healing program to our new Inova Schar Loudoun location.

This new state of the art, 16,000 square foot cancer treatment facility offers Loudoun area patients the therapeutic healing environment that is part of the holistic, patient centered exceptional care at Inova Schar Cancer Institute.

Artist-in-Residence

Artists in our Artist in Residence program work directly with patients, caregivers, and clinicians utilizing the power of the arts to create opportunities for stress reduction, self-awareness and self-expression, while providing inspiration, hope and healing in a medical setting.

This program consists of 20 diverse professional artists including seven visual artists, six musicians, three poets, two knitters, one dancer and one storyteller.

Art kits delivered to patients, team members, caregivers and visitors

15,360

Patient Interactions

As of August 1, 2022

FROM A PATIENT:

"I was really feeling sick when you were here last time but it helped me to focus on something else and I truly appreciate that attention."

LIVE PERFORMANCES AND SPECIAL EVENTS

The Artist in Residence music program sees over 200,000 annual impressions Our current partnerships continue to grow as our in person services resume. This year's season includes robust and diverse music concerts and special guest performances across all Inova Schar locations.

FROM

PATIENTS:

"Your music is so relaxing and I was having one of those days where I really need help relaxing and your music helped me so much."

As of August 1, 2022

Caring for Our Caregivers

This year, the Artist in Residence program has increased services to Inova team members to help reduce stress amongst healthcare workers. These interactions include Healing Grams, Paint Possibilities virtual programs, group collaging and artist visits. The team has also provided 25 stretch break shifts for Inova team members averaging 50 people each shift over the course of one year

Staff Interactions

As of August 1, 2022

FROM TEAM MEMBERS:

"When I got to my workstation I could hear someone playing the violin and it was exactly what I needed.”

After participating in one of the stretch breaks a team member said, “I didn’t know that I needed that!”

Meet Leanne Fink

ARTS AND HEALING CONTRIBUTOR

Leanne is a self described lifelong artist. On retiring from chiropractic practice, she returned to living an artful life and oil painting. Having worked in health care for 20 years, she feels compelled to paint imagery that is uplifting and positive, offering her viewer an oasis in which to rest and recharge their mind, heart and body. She is one of the artists of Loudoun County who contributed their work to the new Inova Schar Cancer Institute Loudoun.

“A friend of mine who has cancer shared that she was recently at the

facility being treated and was so moved by the art there. She described her experience as ‘I went away to a different place, just by viewing this work of art while having my treatment.' Having been in advertising and also in healthcare, I know the value of color and how it can change a person's mood, uplift them, or put them in a meditative state, depending on the color, the hue, the value of that color range.”

Loudoun

Leanne's painting, The Citadel in Amman, is in the permanent collection of Inova Schar Cancer Institute.

Leanne with her painting, Call of the Canyon, at Inova Schar Cancer Institute Loudoun.

Meet Steve Loya

ARTS AND HEALING CONTRIBUTOR AND HUSBAND OF INOVA SCHAR PATIENT

Steve Loya is a local artist, and the husband of Kristen (Kris) Loya, who was also an artist and treated for cancer at Inova before her passing on December 21, 2021. Steve shared about how important it was to him to contribute his art to the healing environment at Inova Schar, and pay tribute to Kris's legacy by also including her art in that healing space.

“When Kris and I were at the hospital, we both were very cognizant of the art that was on display. When she was feeling a little better, we'd walk around the halls and you could tell the artwork was curated with a lot of thought and care. It's really the opposite of the cold, clinical environment that you imagine a hospital might have.”

“My wife Kris said, 'I would love to work with cancer patients and use my art in some way to help them out.’ And I feel like having her work exhibited, and on display in this new facility at Loudoun is fulfilling that vision for her. Even though she passed, her artwork is still doing exactly what she intended."

Meet Lisa Ellis

ART SELECTION COMMITTEE MEMBER AND ARTS AND HEALING SUPPORTER

Lisa is a local artist and passionate advocate for Inova’s Arts and Healing program As a founding member of the Arts and Healing Executive and Selection Committees, she has directed a number of healing related installations at Inova Schar Fair Oaks and supported the art selection at Inova Schar Loudoun and the new Saville Cancer Screening and Prevention Center. Lisa is also an Inova Visionaries member as an annual Arts and Healing supporter

"I’m just an artist with a passion, and it was incredible to see the right people get involved to make my dream of an Arts and Healing program at Inova a reality. From the architects and interior designers to the donors themselves, I saw so much genuine enthusiasm in wanting to create meaningful spaces that would foster healing through art."

Lisa (third from right) and the Inova Schar Art Selection Committee

Thank You

You are helping create powerful moments of inspiration, awe and pause for everyone who walks through our spaces each day. These moments make a true difference in the healing process and are part of what makes Inova such a special place for care.

For more information about the impact of your giving, please contact Kristen Bentivegna at Kristen.Bentivegna@inova.org or 571.472.0693