ArtMobile: Art that Heals on Wheels

The art director, Lisa Swanson is a ceramic sculptor mosaic artist and teaching artist. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art and a Master’s Degree in Arts in Medicine from the University of Florida. She has been facilitating arts in health classes and sessions for fifteen years and since 2012 has focused on patient bedside art to patients of all ages and creative aging sessions to older adult populations. Lisa is committed to the power of the arts to heal. Her mission as an Artist Practitioner in the Arts in Health field is to reach the unique populations through participatory arts in health creative aging programs. She recognizes the significance of an arts in health creative aging program as an intervention for nurturing social inclusion and enhancing an older adult's quality of life. ArtMobile-AZ, Inc, is a non-profit community-based arts in health creative aging organization that reaches unique populations, through partnering with local governments, community human resource agencies (Food Banks, Senior Agencies and Meals on Wheels), churches and healthcare facilities (senior centers, hospitals). The goal of ArtMobile is to reach isolated rural older adult populations with creative arts group sessions and individual, patient bedside/in the home art. The program is designed to bridge the arts into the community to nurture creative engagement, socialization and enhance one’s overall quality of life.