The staging of a hospice arts and crafts exhibition in the UK.
The use of arts in hospices is now well established. However, the voluntary nature of much hospice work in England encourages most regular creative activities to be provided by volunteers with minimal financial support. This article looks at how a successful arts and crafts exhibition for a hospice community was staged by a volunteer arts worker, helped by art and design students from the local university. It was not intended that the exhibition should be a research project; however, it became clear that to learn more about arts practice within a hospice environment, it would need to be appraised in some way. The project leader (and author) adopted an approach which reflected on the responses of people involved in the preparation and staging of the exhibition.
Sarginson
Andrea
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Arts for Health Unit, Arts and Design Faculty, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. andrea.sarginson@homecall.co.uk
D001154:Art; D004739:England; D005085:Exhibitions as Topic; D006738:Hospices; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014495:Universities