InSight: Visualizing Health Humanities Exhibition Call for Proposals

Health humanities is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that connects medicine, the arts, humanities and the social sciences to address the human needs and aspects of medicine and healthcare. It encompasses art, health design and communications, visual culture, drama, music, literature, narrative medicine, art therapy, health promotion, the history of medicine, medical anthropology, ethics, environment and health, and much more.

22 February 2012



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Health humanities is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that connects medicine, the arts, humanities and the social sciences to address the human needs and aspects of medicine and healthcare. It encompasses art, health design and communications, visual culture, drama, music, literature, narrative medicine, art therapy, health promotion, the history of medicine, medical anthropology, ethics, environment and health, and much more.

This project will share diverse work in health humanities at or connected to the University of Alberta, through InSight, an interactive, exploratory exhibition of visual media to be held from May 15 to June 9, 2012 at the Fine Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton.

You are invited to submit a proposal for the InSight exhibition by Wednesday, February 29, 2012 to sadler.takach@ualberta.ca.

Visit insight.healthhumanities.ca to download the Call for Proposals. We look forward to your proposals!


InSight exhibition organizing committee

Bonnie Sadler Takach, Associate Professor, Design Studies and Coordinator, Visual Communication Design, Department of Art & Design

Pamela Brett-MacLean, Assistant Professor, Division of Studies in Medical Education (DSME) and Director of Art & Humanities in Health & Medicine Program (AHHM), Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry

Aidan Rowe, Assistant Professor, Design Studies (Interactive New Media), Department of Art & Design