Fulginiti Pavilion : The Galleries

The Galleries in the Pavilion will inspire a blending of the creative with the scientific in health care. It is the fine arts that examine the social and personal settings of health care, just as the sciences investigate biological life processes. And just as the sciences require facilities to house their laboratories and support their work, so too must the arts have a distinctive place to celebrate human creativity. This is especially true at an academic health center. Today's physicians learn to scrutinize patients in terms of their most discrete components and in the process often lose sight of the rich human dramas that are the backdrop of their practice settings. Nothing is more powerful than the visual arts to serve as a corrective to this "excess" in today's health care. Seeing a painting or a photograph in a gallery setting not only increases physicians' observational skills, it also stimulates their imagination and heightens their empathy and moral sensitivity.

To insure that the arts get incorporated into student learning, as well as the daily life of the health sciences center, the Pavilion will have three galleries. A 1000 square foot exhibition gallery will provide a secure venue for curated art, photography, and multi-media exhibitions. A video/internet gallery will be available for interactive exhibitions that complement other exhibits and programs in the building. A gallery in the building's south entrance will be used to host ceramic and sculpture exhibitions, as well as other educational displays.