Do you want to learn more about the paintings installed outside of Scott Hall, the Lande Building and the Mazurek Medical Education Commons? The Wayne State University School of Medicine Art in Medicine student organization will host “Visual Thinking and Medicine: Art in Medicine in Partnership with the DIA” on May 9.
The schedule:
- Noon-12:30 - Walking tour of the School of Medicine Inside |Out Pieces provided by a docent from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Meet in the lobby of the Mazurek Medical Education Commons.
- 12:30-1 p.m. - “Visual Thinking in Oncology Image Interpretation” by Professor of Pathology Ulka Vaishampayan, M.D., in the Mazurek, Rooms 305/306. She will direct an interactive session of analyzing different oncology imaging while everyone is in the artistic and creative thinking mindset.
- Sign up sheet available at this link
The event is limited to 30 participants. Lunch will be provided.
Art in Medicine was established as a student organization in 2018 by medical student Ashley Kramer, now the group’s president, as a way to grow and influence the critical thinking skills “we’ll need as future physicians,” she said.
Specialties like Radiology, Dermatology and Oncology in particular utilize visual cues and creative thinking in practice. “We’re trying to integrate art into medicine and promote how some of the visual thinking skills you use when looking at art or thinking of art could be used in medicine,” added Art in Medicine Vice President Emily Nghiem.
The group hosts additional events throughout the year, including paint nights and guest lecturers.
The medical campus is the site of five replicas of artwork from the Detroit Institute of Arts through June. The community-based program, called Inside|Out, is in its 10th year of bringing high-quality reproductions from the DIA’s collection to outdoor venues throughout metropolitan Detroit.
The pieces at the School of Medicine include “A Day in June” by George Wesley Bellows, “Savoy Ballroom” by Reginald Marsh, “Boy with Plaid Scarf” by Robert Cozad Henri, “Movement #27” by Kwesi Owusu-Ankomah and “Dancers in a Green Room” by Edgar Degas.
The reproductions will be on view in four communities from April to July, and eight others from July to October. Each community will display up to 12 images clustered within walking or biking distance.
Inside|Out is a popular component of the DIA’s community engagement efforts. In the past 10 years, the museum has partnered with more than 100 communities, including Wayne State, and engaged tens of thousands of residents with art in places where they live, work and play.
Interested in planning a free private tour of the pieces? Email Emily Nghiem at gm7587@wayne.edu.
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