Arts and Healing
HARNESSING THE HEALING POWER OF EXPRESSION
Your generosity plays a key role in enhancing the emotional well-being of our patients. Thanks to your efforts, patients and caregivers are harnessing the power of creative expression to uplift and transform their lives. From music in recovery rooms and at outdoor concerts to visual arts in treatment spaces and sessions with an artist in residence, we’re witnessing remarkable moments where art touches lives and accelerates healing.
Artist-in-residence program
Your support continues to bring together local artists from all mediums directly to our patients, their caregivers and Inova team members, providing healing through artistic expression.
"Cancer takes a toll on the body, both mentally and physically, but art heals the soul. Creative expression can give strength when words fall short. The healing process isn’t just about medicine; it’s about finding joy, purpose, and beauty along the way and one of the reasons I give back to support the arts."
- Rose Carter, Inova Supporter, Inova Health Foundation Board
A place of beauty and calm: the Joan Hisaoka Art Gallery
The Joan Hisaoka Art Gallery—a dedicated space made possible through the generosity of Joan’s brother, Robert G. Hisaoka— exhibits rotating fine art that explores the connection between healing and creativity.
“My late sister, Joan, who lost her battle with cancer, knew the power of strong emotional, psychological and spiritual care. We are proud to support this critical program.”
- Robert G. Hisaoka, Inova Supporter and Chair, Inova Health Foundation Board
A place of beauty and calm: the Joan Hisaoka Art Gallery
The Joan Hisaoka Art Gallery—a dedicated space made possible through the generosity of Joan’s brother, Robert G. Hisaoka—exhibits fine art that explores the connection between healing and creativity.
“My late sister, Joan, who lost her battle with cancer, knew the power of strong emotional, psychological and spiritual care. We are proud to support this critical program.”
- Robert G. Hisaoka, Inova Supporter and Chair, Inova Health Foundation Board
"Healing isn’t just physical – health is emotional, mental, social, and spiritual. Through accessing the arts and our own creative potential, we partake in moments of connection, self-expression, and transformation. Whether it’s a patient learning to knit during a chemotherapy session or a family harmonizing in music therapy, the arts have the power to transcend, provide perspective, gift us with joy and distraction and ground us in our own fullness of human experience."
- Monica Delaney, LPC, ATR-BC, Senior Manager, Arts and Healing Program
