Shawn Coss recently made a collection of ink sketches illustrating a compilation of different mental illnesses for the social art event of Inktober. Inktober is a social art festival encouraging artists to draw an ink sketch every day in the … Read more
Burning Fever The Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett at UNC’s Ackland Art Museum is an exposé that commands attention. Not only is the work astounding, but its social nuances may require you to linger and dig a bit … Read more
Shakespeare writes in Hamlet that one purpose of art is “to hold as ‘twere the mirror up to nature.”1 One fundamental part of nature is our own human nature. Indeed, many artists endeavor to create works that lead us to … Read more
By: Tori Placentra University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Class of 2017 Chemistry & English B.A. tplace@live.unc.edu For Dr. Raj Telhan, the epitome of the meaning of Health Humanities can be found in the anatomical sketches of Andreas … Read more
“Save and Savor” is a student documentary film about the music, art, medicine, and health. The film was written, directed, filmed, edited, and produced by Izzy Pinheiro in Professor Todd Taylor’s ENGL 318 in the fall of 2015 at UNC … Read more
The CHCI Health Humanities Summer Institute 2016, “The Health Humanities Now,” is organized by The Centre for the Humanities and Health and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. The second CHCI Summer Institute in the Health Humanities will take place at … Read more
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH) recently sat down with Professors Jordynn Jack and Jane Thrailkill to discuss their various health humanities initiatives around campus, how they came to collaborate on the HHIVE Lab, and how they conceive … Read more
