Henry Fuseli’s painting, The Nightmare, is a complex piece of art that portrays an element of fear in helplessness and impotency. Emitting dark and irrational forces, this painting floods viewers with questions on posed themes, painter’s intent, and subliminal messages. … Read more

You can read about her teaching here and here. She “sees the classroom as a space to help students develop the analytical tools — along with the empathy and tact — for living in a complex, diverse, and risky world.”

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

You can now watch the full video of Jane Thrailkill’s Humanities in Medicine lecture entitled “The Art of Falling: What Narratives Written by Older Adults Reveal about Human Balancing Acts” that she delivered at the Duke Trent Center on March … 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