Healing Arts

Operating theater takes center stage at the university’s annual Heart of the Harvey dramatic arts festival.

Our medicine-art journey begins in the mind, and so we open with a peek into the vast research underway across the university on neuroscience and the arts.

The Arts & Humanities Program brings art to the medical setting, and now also helps put medicine in the art setting.

Alumni artists Rupa Marya (M'02), Stephen Madigan (M'80), and Saeed Marefat (M'85) draw inspiration from medicine and the arts.

Children and families discover the art of healing through Tracy's Kids.

“We don't really understand why creativity is so healing. But it's restorative, like sleep, and nobody understands that either.” — Dr. Caroline Wellbery, Arts & Medicine's faculty advisor.

Researchers at Georgetown are studying how and why music is so neurologically dominant. “We want to understand how music resides in the brain and the body.”…

Researchers study perception of beauty, the neurological dominance of music, and the power of creativity.