Sept. 17, 2003 – Anyone familiar with the Roy L. Schneider Hospital who may have visited the facility in the last eight months will have noticed – among other aesthetic changes – artwork popping up everywhere, in the lobby, in the hallways – sometimes even leaning against a wall waiting to be hung.
On Wednesday some of the artists, framers and coordinators who made this phenomenon happen were honored at a luncheon in the facility's cafeteria.
Dubbed the First Artist Appreciation Luncheon, Rodney E. Miller Sr., chief executive officer of the hospital, is determined there will be a second, third and more.
All of the 300 artworks, which include oil and watercolor paintings, batiks, murals and numbered prints were donated by the artists as was the framing.
The units that were specifically targeted the for the artistic enhancements were, the fourth floor medical/surgical unit, the labor and delivery rooms, the new birthing room and material child health unit and areas of the second floor which include the administrative offices.
A release from the hospital said thirteen of the contributors were in attendance at Wednesday's function to receive recognition for their donations including:
Jane Coombes, Karyn Gould, Sylvia Kahn, Claire Ochoa,, Gary Rosenthal, Janet Rutnik, Deborah St. Claire, Lucinda Schutt, Judith Slosky Sonny Thomas, Bill Thompson, Pam Van Engel, and Corinne Van Rensselaer.
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