2013-522 Arts - Door to Door of UNC Health Care

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Orange County Arts Commission Grant for DooR to DooR of UNC Health Care Page 2. Current Programs and Services-a brief List 1. Artists escorted to patient rooms,waiting areas, clinics and units,approximately 10 visits a month. 2. To teach at the UNC child and adolescent, Crisis, Psychosis, Eating Disorders and Geriatric Psychiatric Units: 45 Artists visit usually on Saturday or Sunday. 3. Several Volunteer Artists: Alan Greer with guitar and songs,visits the children 5 days a week. Suzanne Mays, Lyre,visits adults one day a week, Helen Wolfson, Hammered Dulcimer visits adults especially women, one day a month,two conversational clowns,and Roy Schmidt,who has been ill some of this year,but he gives the harmonicas DooR to DoOR purchases for him,to the child patients with some written music and he teaches them to play before he leaves the room. 4. ArtHeels,called "a key to DooR to DooR" during the school year,UNC art majors and others,volunteer to visit mostly child patients with mostly visual arts and clowning and some music. The first year there were 15 volunteers,now in its 4th year there are over 60 volunteers extremely well organized and trained by their student coordinator. They visit patients,mostly pediatric and mostly with visual arts, 6 days a week. 6. DooR to DooR website maintained,photographs added as often as possible taken by director joy Javits and sometimes by others. The designer of the website is Andrea Ferguson, of Ride Again Productions, a supporter! of the program. She donated the design and a year of webhosting. She charged a nominal fee to maintain and update this excellent website: www.doortodoornc.com She had been donating her service again! 7. Maintain the pianos one in the lobby of the NC Children's Hospital and another in the Dining Area for the Rehabilitation Patients. There are now two more pianos, one in the waiting area for Cancer patients and one in the Unit of the Psychosis Adult Psychiatric Patieets. Pianists play at all of them as organized by DooR to DooR and tuning and cleaning are coordinated by DooR to DooR. 8. A Grant received from LiveSTRONG encouraged this Coordinator to work with the patients directly and to make that artistic work interactive. Becaue of that excellent training,many DooR to DooR artists work more interactively with the patients. For example Gabriel Pelli brought his fiddle to play and also brought a small guitar which he tuned with an open string and that allowed several patients who said,"I'm not at all musical" to have a go at playing the guitar. It also allowed a Burn patient/musician to play with Gabriel for several other patients. Natalie Gilbert teaches patients in Psychosis and Geriatrics to play the piano and play with each other. Billy Stewart gave mini-guitar lessons to patients. Proposed Uses of Grant Funds DooR to DooR has been embraced especially by the UNC Psychiatric Units including: Geriatric, Crisis, Psychosis, Eating Disorders, Adolescent and Child. I am requesting $800 to give an honorarium to ten artists to perform in the psychiatric units on the weekends, and $700 to invite dancers and actors to participate with patients, performing and interactively. Heretofore, musicians have been most present. I will find the dancers and actors through these excellent community venues: tangoUtopia.com -Triangle Dance Studio 2603 S. Miami Blvd,Durham,NC-