Arts in HealthCare

The UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital doesn’t look or sound like a traditional hospital thanks to the UK Arts in HealthCare program. As part of our visual arts programming, multiple forms of art are showcased throughout our hospitals and clinics. Over 3,200 works of art, featuring local, national, regional and international artists, can be found in our lobbies, waiting areas, hallways, outdoor spaces, patient and exam rooms. Our seven rotating galleries feature as many as eleven unique visual art exhibits per year.

Live performances occur across the UK HealthCare enterprise as part of our performing arts programming. Professional and volunteer musicians and performers of all ages are featured weekly in our lobbies and other public spaces with occasional special performances in our 305 seat, state of the art auditorium. Performers showcase a variety of music from across all genres including occasional opera, ballet and theater performances.

"Our mission is to create an environment of care and to focus on the spiritual, emotional and physical well-being of our patients, family, caregivers and staff. The program recognizes the arts and the artists as powerful and positive forces in the healing process."

To achieve our mission, we strive to create and maintain a healing environment and culture of care, in accordance with UK HealthCare's mission and vision, by directly and indirectly engaging our patients, family, caregivers, staff, faculty, students and community through our visual arts, performing arts and other programming.

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UK HealthCare -- Arts in HealthCare

What's New

Coming to the Kentucky Clinic North Gallery in mid-December, a new exhibit by textile artist Daren Pitts Redman

Through bold colors, patterns and dedicated stitches, each piece tells a small part of a deep and rich story that is grounded in family history, culminating in a beautiful display of textile artworks that evoke a sense of time and place. With one end of the string tied to history and a myriad of stitches woven together in the present, these works move through the future in a timeless fashion.

Kevin Ford's "Making Light" exhibit now on display in the Hamilton Gallery, Pavilion A, UK Chandler Hospital

A series of large-scale works created using a combination of observational sketchbook drawings, plein air painting studies, photographs, and recollection. Ford's paintings exist somewhere between reality and fantasy, memory and real-time, clarity and fogginess. They are both familiar and foreign, with potential to ignite the imagination.

Come and see the "Pups of Color" exhibit at Kentucky Children's Hospital ground floor lobby!

A series of paintings featuring UK HealthCare’s Animal Assisted Therapy dogs, "Pups of Color" is a vibrant exhibit by 12-year-old patient Katie B. Carmichael.

Awards

Recognition for Excellence: In 2013, the UK Arts in HealthCare Program was recognized for excellence by the Governor’s Award in the Arts and the Medi-Star Awards. Both awards recognized the patient-centered focus of the program. Learn more about our awards and program.

Tell Us What You Think

UK Arts in HealthCare is always looking for ways to better serve our patients, families and staff. Provide us with feedback, pose questions or make suggestions as to how we can improve the program and what it brings to the health care environment.

Fill out our comment form and let us know. We would love to hear from you!

Volunteer

There are many ways to volunteer in the UK Arts in HealthCare program.

Opportunities are available for:

  • Musicians
  • Performing artists
  • Visual artists
  • Curatorial support

Fill out our volunteer form to help!