Consulting Grants & Services

The Society for the Arts in Healthcare, through the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, offers a Consultancy Service to assist organizations in developing, re-imagining or sustaining their arts in healthcare programs. It serves a wide variety of organizations including both healthcare facilities and arts organizations to strengthen partnerships, through a roster of arts in healthcare professionals from around the US.

The service provides an array of programs:

Consulting Grants
Apply for up to 20 hours of consulting time with an experienced leader in the field to grow your arts in healthcare program through a flexible format that meets your needs. Consultations can provide advice on programs utilizing a diversity of arts media including performing arts, visual arts, literature, film, or design as well as interdisciplinary programs serving an equally wide array of patient populations and clients. Grants for this technical assistance covers consultant fees, while clients cover additional costs. Consultants can travel to organizations for site visits or provide information and support via phone or email, or a mix of on and off-site services.

Webinars
Seasonal webinars led by consultants in the service provide topical information on arts in healthcare. Participants join the conversation from around the country, engage in dialogue, and network with their peers. Free to the Society's members, sessions include live, interactive online visuals accessed by conference call and a web browser. Recent session topics have included:

• Visual Arts Matters: The Nuts & Bolts of Exhibitions in Healthcare Settings
• Context is Everything: Creative Approaches to Funding
• Arts Access: Ensuring Inclusion and Universal Accessibility

Workshops
In addition, each year the Society provides trainings through an annual international conference including day-long pre-conference workshops as well as short one-on-one consulting time through "Ask the Experts" sessions. Consultants from the Consulting Service also lead workshops through regional symposia and meetings.

Toolbox
The Society provides a wealth of information resources through our online ToolBox of Arts in Healthcare program management tools.

 Through the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Society's Consulting Service provides affordable assistance to organizations wishing to establish or advance the arts in healthcare settings.