CARE + COMMUNITY
Art Installation Inspires and Promotes Healing At the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, art and medicine go hand-in-hand. Unique works of art enhance teaching and learning in the schools and colleges, and put patients at ease as they seek world-class health care at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital and Children’s Hospital Colorado. In the main lobby of the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute building, home to the Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center, a new art installation is on display, adding to the center’s reputation as an environment of healing, care and innovation. “The Anemoi Frieze” is a striking 21-foot-long inlaid wood feature presenting a scene of wild horses galloping across a rolling landscape. The piece’s namesake is the “Anemoi” — in ancient Greek mythology, a team of four immortal horses associated with the four cardinal directions.
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The Dusty Roads Project is a group of anonymous artists collaborating to place works of contemporary art in public spaces. In 2018, the group presented the art installation in the spirit of gratitude for all that the center does to deliver the highest-quality eye care to the community, and for the care that one of the artists received at the center. “The Anemoi Frieze” now stands as a source of inspiration and healing to more than 125,000 patients and families who make their way to appointments in the building each year. “Art is central to healing and recovery,” said Naresh Mandava, MD, Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Endowed Chair in Retinal Diseases and director of the Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center at the CU Department of Ophthalmology. “There is no more fitting place for ‘The Anemoi Frieze’ than our center, where hundreds of thousands of patients receive life-changing care and restoration of their eyesight.”
