visual arts

This workshop introduces learners to a spectrum of ways of engaging with visual art in an art museum context. […]

People are complicated. Art is difficult. They’re both challenging: often opaque and multi-layered and hard to read. People and artworks might show up with their labels front-and-centre, but what do labels really tell us? […]

Humanities in Medicine—A Photography Elective For Medical Students. Medicine Through the Lens of Photography: Empathy, Advocacy, Compassion through Storytelling […]

This is a free, monthly, drop-in comics workshop. Past sessions are archived here, and there is information about how to join. […]

The Canadian Association for Health Humanities and the League of Canadian Poets are partnering to deliver a series of monthly rounds focused on health, arts and humanities. These live sessions will feature both artists and professionals in the Health Humanities field for a multi-faceted conversation about topics related to healthcare, art, healing, and humanities. […]

The Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute (NMHI) at the University of Alberta is launching the “CONNECTIONS” project: a collection of artwork and scientific images that portray the many aspects of neuroscience, brain diseases and mental health, and where art and neuroscience meet. […]

ARTBEAT is pleased to announce that Synesthesia 2021 is now live. Synesthesia is an annual exhibit of visual and literary art created by health professional students, staff, faculty, and alumni at the University of Toronto. […]

Our next meeting (March 16th) will be, yet again, a little different. Taking our cue from poetry and comics, we’ll use MK Czerwiec’s panels of Pablo Neruda’s “Keeping Quiet” as a jumping off point. […]

We are thrilled to invite you to the launch of our interactive online installation, Representations of Pain, which interrogates representations and expands definitions of pain through a variety of media, from fine arts to the sciences. […]

At the University of Toronto, Narrative Medicine and Arts-based Curricula are staples of Undergraduate Studies in Medicine and increasingly through Residency and beyond. […]