THE CREATIVE CENTER
Medicine Cures the Body, but Art Heals the Spirit
As one of the nation’s first arts in health organizations, The Creative Center at University Settlement has been transforming the healthcare experience for over thirty years. By centering artmaking as a vital tool for emotional resilience and healing through an evidence-based, participatory approach, we connect individuals navigating cancer and chronic illness, caregivers, and older adults with professional artists in a collaborative, trauma-informed environment.
Through the integration of high-quality arts programming across a robust network of hospitals, community-based organizations and cultural institutions, we provide a restorative space where participants find opportunities for self-expression, reclaimed agency, and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing.
WATCH How The Creative Center’s groundbreaking programs find new ways to create connection and healing through artistic practice
“The Creative Center is me sticking my thumb in the eye of a diagnosis that trampled my sense of safety. It is me reclaiming my autonomy and membership in the world. It lets me answer the questions: “Who am I now? How will I express it? What will I do with it?”…The Creative Center confirms that I have more to do.
— Creative Center Community Member
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184 Eldridge Street
New York, NY 10002
Hours
Monday–Friday
9am–5pm
Phone
(646) 465.5338