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Connecticut VNA/Connecticut VNA Partners' Hospice Art Exhibit on Display in Hartford - 7/28/2008
The exhibit is an extraordinary and powerful multi-media display depicting the use of the arts in hospice care. It is a collection of paintings, drawings, photography, poetry, shadow boxes and more that have been done with, for and about ordinary people at the end of their lives. It highlights the unique gifts patients and their loved ones have received through Connecticut VNA and Connecticut VNA Partners' compassionate and supportive Hospice team. The exhibit has helped people understand the major role art and art therapy can play in helping patients and families cope with a terminal illness. Susan Rosano, an Expressive Arts Therapist with the Hospice team and an organizer of the exhibit, said the group wanted to show the public the incredible work that is being done with people at the end of their lives and how it can contribute to the process of emotional healing for family members and friends. "The poems we write with our patients -- the collages and drawings we help them make -- their hand castings -- all have become lasting memorials to them." The exhibit was previously on display at the NOMA Gallery in Middletown, The Windham Area Arts Collaborative Gallery in Willimantic, Masonic Healthcare Center in Wallingford, and at The Institute for Community Research and St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford. The community is invited to stop in at Riverside Health and Rehabilitation to view the exhibit at any time during the week or on the weekend. For additional information, or to learn how you can showcase this traveling exhibit, please contact Susan Rosano at 860-528-5195 or Charles Waltos at 860-290-6747.
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Hartford, CT, July 28, 2008....... Connecticut VNA and Connecticut VNA Partners have announced their traveling hospice art exhibit, "Completing the Journey - The Art of Hospice Care," will be on display at Riverside Health and Rehabilitation Center, 745 Main Street, East Hartford, during the month of September. The public is invited to attend the opening celebration on Wednesday, September 3, at 11:30 a.m.
