2014-605-E Arts - DooR to DooR of UNC Health Care for 2014 Arts Grant Agreement $1,500

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DocuSign Envelope ID:A4D80A45-3D76-49OC-9BAF-5A28959D5D50 Orange County Arts Commission Grant for DooR to DooR of UNC Health Care Page 3 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. 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. 4. 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! S. Maintain the 5! Pianos: one in the lobby of the NC Children's Hospital and another in the Dining Area for the Rehabilitation Patients,a beautiful baby grand, and another one in the waiting area for chemotherapy patients, one in the Unit of the Psychosis Adult Patient Unit and recently donated a paino in the Geriatric Psychiatric Patient Unit. Pianists play at . all of them as organized by DooR to DooR and tuning and cleaning are coordinated by DooR to DooR. 6. A Grant received from LiveSTRONG has continued to inspire this Coordinator to work .with the patients directly and to make that artistic work interactive. 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 join him and play with Gabriel for several other burn patients. Natalie Gilbert teaches patients in Psychosis and Geriatrics, and with the keyboard purchased so we can go anywhere,to adolescents, Crisis and child psychiatric patients to play the piano and play with each other. Billy Stewart gives mini-guitar lessons to patients. Eric Martin brought the Ukulele DooR to DooR purchased to children to play as he played his Ukulele. Visual artists, Rebecca Rousseau and Liz Bouyeau encourage patients to make collages. Braima Moiwai to play the drums. Impromptu Players to dance and improvise. Proposed Uses of Grant Funds This year, DooR to DooR is requesting funds to bring in 4 writers, 4 actors, and 4 musicians for the Psychiatric patients and the Oncology Patients in Chemotherapy, in Bone Marrow Unit and in Oncology patient rooms. Additionally, working with a visual artist, I am putting together a card that will carry the beauty of a DooR on the cover, and a piece of writing within, that is written by participants of the Writing for Caregivers program DooR to DooR co-directs with the Chaplain Heidi Gessner. This grant from DooR to DooR is requesting funds for these cards (a sample is enclosed) and for a booklet of writings for patients and a separate booklet of writings for their caregivers.