Artist Laura Ferguson developed a lifelong passion for drawing the body, both inside and out, as a child when she was bedridden with scoliosis. Five years ago she created an Art and Anatomy seminar in the Masters Scholars program, as >> Read more
Category: The Artist Speaks
The Artist in the Anatomy Lab
Laura Ferguson came to the NYU School of Medicine as artist in residence in 2008 and currently has an exhibit of her artwork in the MSB Gallery at NYU – Langone. In a previous blog post, Ms. Ferguson discussed how >> Read more
MyRightSelf
Arthur Robinson Williams is a PGY2 Resident in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University. He earned his M.D. and a Master in Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Center for Bioethics. Williams studied photography >> Read more
A Journal Of Rehabilitation
Drawing and writing came naturally to me while in rehabilitation after sustaining a traumatic brain injury and injuries to my spine, the result of being struck by a speeding car. They eased the physical, emotional and mental pain that were my constant companions and helped me find answers within.
Dr. Fleischmann Draws Dr. Munk In Terezin
Commentary by Michael Nevins, M.D., author of Jewish Medicine: What it is and Why it Matters and A Tale of Two “Villages”: Vineland and Skillman, NJ. This commentary written in conjunction with an exhibit at New York University School of >> Read more
The Family Portrait Project
Commentary by Mary Spano, Medical Photographer, The Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, NYU Langone Medical Center. Spano’s work is on exhibit from June 29-August 31 in the Smilow Gallery at NYU School of Medicine. Free and open to the public. >> Read more
Scarred For Life. Physically, Not So Much Mentally
Commentary by Ted Meyer, Los Angeles-based artist. Meyer’s work is on exhibit through June 15 in the Smilow Gallery at NYU School of Medicine. Free and open to the public. Every time I travel, people ask me if I expect >> Read more
Here I Am and Nowhere Else: Portraits of Care by Mark Gilbert at the Intersection of Art and Medicine
Commentary by Virginia Aita, PhD, William Lydiatt, MD, Mark Gilbert, BA (artist), Hesse McGraw, MA and Mark Masuoka, MFA Introduction The exhibition “Here I Am and Nowhere Else: Portraits of Care” explored 45 individual’s experiences with health, illness and caregiving. >> Read more
Embodied/Disembodied
Commentary by Joyce Cutler-Shaw, artist; Artist in Residence, School of Medicine of the University of California San Diego History is story telling with images embedded in memory. The history of anatomy is a history of human representation: how we are >> Read more
Ethics and Aesthetics: Photographing Patients
Commentary by Ana Blohm, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; physician in Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program; co-director, Humanities and Medicine Program in the Division of General Internal Medicine “Is it OK if I take your >> Read more