Houston Methodist Center for Performing Arts Medicine

Check out this message from CPAM’s Director, J. Todd Frazier, regarding the 5th installment of their Virtual Art Experiences and Strategic Information for Artists:

The Center for Performing Arts Medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital is responding to the unique challenges of COVID-19 by deploying the arts in creative ways to support our staff, patients, and community at large. In addition to patient support, we have identified unique needs of healthcare workers at this time- both those that are ‘front line’ and those with supporting roles and working from home. The list of CPAM Applications Supporting Healthcare Employees and Patients below are examples of art activities CPAM is deploying to relieve stress and anxiety, offer hope and rejuvenation and support healthcare outcomes for employees, patients and the Hospital community. Many of these activities will also prove supportive and effective for the community at large and the addition of Public Virtual Art Experiences and Strategic Information for Artists and Arts Organizations below offers additional resources.

CPAM Applications Supporting Healthcare Employees and Patients

Participatory Employee Arts Enrichment Digital Programs

Opportunities for staff to engage with the arts in a participatory, reflective fashion with the option to share completed arts experiences with fellow employees.

• Photography Safari: https://hrportal.ehr.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=ko-mJ8E5kkE%3d&portalid=78
• Employee Virtual Choir: https://youtu.be/lm_Og3kGrcM
• Creative Writing Prompt 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO_SOuI4PzI&feature=youtu.be
• Creative Writing Prompt 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yej3G5OxNkY&t=4s

Passive Virtual Arts Interventions Supporting Employee Wellbeing

Programs that allow employees to reflect through the arts without requiring active creation.

• Music Therapy Curated Playlist Links: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3IEyx7yaVsEGbxM18NvqRw/playlists
• Guided Meditations with Music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu0R2l-y6EUi6_Nvsl1lJ66Qyte8boTxd
• Music and Visual Art for Relaxation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu0R2l-y6EUjI-31CWP8SQ-syk_Mc1zO_
• Music for Caregiver Relaxation: https://soundcloud.com/user-390883826
• Music for Caregiver Relaxation with study questions component (IRB-PRO#00024163): http://bit.ly/cpamrelaxation

Weekly Patient Tray Art Activities

Each week new arts activities themed to optimism, hope and refection are placed on patient’s food trays as an opportunity for patients to relax while focusing on an activity that allows for creative expression with supplies they have access to in their rooms. The following are examples of 6 activities.

• http://jtoddfrazier.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Heart-Treasure-Map.pdf
• http://jtoddfrazier.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Rise-Up-and-Reflect-Zine-Activity.pdf
• http://jtoddfrazier.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Origami-Heart_Hope_Drawing.pdf
• http://jtoddfrazier.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Origami-Heart_Self-Compassion_Coloring.pdf
• http://jtoddfrazier.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Origami-Heart_Hope_Coloring.pdf
• http://jtoddfrazier.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Hearts-for-HealthCare-Workers.pdf

Direct Patient Care

In addition to the normal services that our Music Therapy Department provides throughout the hospital, new services in response to COVID-19 have been implemented in palliative care and the team is now providing telemedicine services to patients throughout the hospital system. For more information about CPAM’s Music Therapy Division please contact Jennifer Townsend, Manager: jdtownsend@houstonmethodist.org

Employee Onsite and Printable Art Activities

For our front line and support employees on campus, we have created a variety of music therapy inspired interventions offered in break rooms and at information and front desks throughout the hospital. In addition to the comprehensive brochure link below, the image below is an example of a completed activity from our out-patient center where each employee visually depicted lyrics of a song. When the lyrics were joined together, the team created an illustrated version of what the song means to them.

Hospital Arts in Health TV Channel 3

At Houston Methodist Hospital, this channel broadcasts 24 hours a day in patient and waiting rooms. At this time, the channel is being repurposed to provide a more specialized and peaceful, healing experience for our patients, especially when we are unable to provide live music broadcasts. The new content ranges from classical music to jazz to plein air painting. All of these videos will also be available on CPAM’s youtube page for all to enjoy.

• The Ermalinda Jazz Trio (featuring Spanish and English songs) on Patient TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ppX0pvNfVQ&feature=youtu.be
• An example of CPAM performances paired with employee nature photographs on Patient TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7DAfGxBSFw

Other Public Virtual Art Recommended Experiences

• A Message from Renee Fleming and Evgeny Kissin – Ave Maria (Virtual) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoFQ92rZT3o
• While practicing social distancing, allow yourself some time to exercise creativity and learn something new with Google Arts and Culture: https://artsandculture.google.com/?hl=en This free, online platform utilizes high-resolution image technology for individuals to virtually tour museums and access art across the world from wherever you are. For example, recent exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-museum-of-fine-arts-houston?hl=en
• Performances streamed by the Metropolitan Opera: https://www.metopera.org/
• CPAM regularly updated list of local, national, and international virtual art experiences: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xS04BrNBXyekoRimZEmwv4J0cLZebID9ZKucc5nyznI/edit#gid=0
• Take a Dance Class with Alicia Graf Mack, the Juilliard Director of Dance: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9y06YtjVDD/
• New broadcasts from the Houston Symphony Orchestra, including “The Cosmos-An HD Odyssey”: https://houstonsymphony.org/watch-listen-now/
• River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, You-Tube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/rocohouston Listening Room: https://roco.org/performance-archive/
• Houston Chamber Choirs regular, curated podcasts of beautiful choral music: https://houstonchamberchoir.org/podcast-with-one-accord
• Classical Conversations: Music Director of Nashville Symphony, Giancario Guerrero, on Mahler’s 10^th: https://www.facebook.com/nashvillesymphony/videos/148687353228556/
• Ars Lyrica’s Virtual Community: http://www.arslyricahouston.org/virtual
• Something clever the Getty Museum asked members to do: https://www.sadanduseless.com/recreated-art/
• Texas Medical Center Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTMCOrchestra
• Mercury, Songs of Comfort: https://www.facebook.com/watch/MercuryHouston/
• 1 hour of relaxing music and imagery to Bach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP11AIZUPVc 
• 1 hour of relaxing music and imagery to Mozart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8uvPLsah0s
• Healing Playlists from Musicians on Call (patient and caregiver focused): https://www.musiciansoncall.org/mocheals/

Strategic Information for Artists and Arts Organizations

• See the newest newsletter from the Arts & Humanities Program at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center: https://mailchi.mp/6e3115b31441/0248jsmey6-4797302
• Sign up to receive the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Arts in Health Newsletter: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/F2460C2525A648EA
• University of Florida Resources for COVID-19 Arts Response https://covid.response.arts.ufl.edu/ University of Florida and University College London launch a US/UK Longitudinal Study on enforced social isolation and mental health – the psychosocial effects of quarantine during COVID-19 https://redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=JD4RECJKDT&utm_source=UF+Center+for+Arts+in+Medicine+Newsletter&utm_campaign=82c5cfbec7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_AHRI2020_ANNOUNCE_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_048582c1ae-82c5cfbec7-
• Comprehensive Coronavirus Resources for the Arts Industry – information and surveys from Americans for the Arts: https://www.magnetmail.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?ep=XMjai3b7BexK5CvpWnxIwiegEpZh4l2t_TqgeqYPcCHh2ftEoQLYdCrO7TXanFGmGZkOdY4FMbGosR45A5w0vPaaarcEAGB5FWEZbb0GcBs-NIJciX6pWRCYyKZ0Uxx8 or:https://www.americansforthearts.org/
• Creative Capital List of Artist Resources: https://creative-capital.org/2020/03/13/list-of-arts-resources-during-the-covid-19-outbreak/
• COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources: https://covid19freelanceartistresource.wordpress.com/
• Unemployment information for artists: https://www.twc.texas.gov/jobseekers/unemployment-benefits
• HAP (Houston Arts Partners) Artist Corona Toolkit and Resource Thread: https://www.hapconference.org/toolkit
• National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) Creative Response to COVID-19 (includes job openings): https://thenoah.net
  • NOAH held a COVID-19 Creative Response Forum on Wednesday, April 22: https://thenoah.net/event-full-calendar/#!event-list
  • NOAH – Submit your creative response here: https://thenoah.net/creativeresponse/

Houston Methodist Center for Performing Arts Medicine homepage: https://www.houstonmethodist.org/performing-arts/