Healing Arts Program
Art Contributes to Healing.
The St. Joseph Healthcare Healing Arts Program was established in 2014 by Katie Schaffer, Deb Dall, Miki Macdonald, NP, and Mary Prybylo, RN. The purpose of the Healing Arts Program is to enhance the healthcare environment and aid in healing and recovery. The program is overseen by the St. Joseph Healthcare Art Commission, a group of volunteers who guide the exhibition and acquisition of art in many different forms: rotating art exhibits, permanent collections, sculpture, music, and performances.
The growth of the Healing Arts program is supported by generous donors and the dedication of our amazing volunteers. Birchbrook is sponsoring the Healing Arts Program for the year 2025. Birchbrook is an independent registered investment advisor who believes that thinking outside the box is necessary to find creative solutions to complex financial issues. To learn more about Birchbrook please visit birchbrook.com.
Mona Blitz Art Cart
In loving memory of his wife, Sandford (Sandy) Blitz generously funded the Mona Blitz Art Cart in 2014, which provides art in many forms to aid with healing and recovery. Mona Blitz was a resident of Hudson, Maine, and was a former patient of St. Joseph Hospital and Hospice of St. Joseph. She passed away in 2014.
The Mona Blitz Art Cart is designed to provide patients with art of their own choosing to decorate their room during their hospital stay. The program, as of August 2025, is seeking volunteers to assist. If you would like to volunteer for this, please contact the St. Joseph Healthcare Foundation at foundation@sjhhealth.org or call 207-907-1740.
Bangor Symphony Orchestra
We’re proud to have music as a key element of our Healing Arts program, through a partnership with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. The first four Tuesdays of each month, cellist Marisa Solomon and violinist Lynn Brubaker play for patients, visitors, and staff at St. Joseph on the third, fourth, and sixth floors of the hospital. They provide music that is requested by patients.
The Gallery at 900
The Gallery at 900 is home to St. Joseph Healthcare Internal Medicine at Building 5 of the 900 Broadway campus. The Gallery at 900 is host to a rotating art exhibit as well as permanent and loaned collections. Other exhibit space includes various hallways and meeting rooms at St. Joseph Hospital at 360 Broadway in Bangor. To apply to be considered for an independent exhibit at The Gallery at 900, please read our Call for Entries.
Elevator Lobbies & CAM Building Hallways
The art of Nina Jerome, James Linehan, and LeeAnn Mallonee is on permanent display in the main hospital in small lobbies outside the elevators on floors 4,5, & 6. In addition, artists Jill Hoy, Nina Jerome, and Diana Young have a large number of their paintings on loan and on display on floors 1,2, & 3 in the CAM building at the hospital.