Texas Woman’s University Visual Art and Nursing Student Collaboration: Portraying Chronic Illness in Aging Adults

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This project was born from the collaborative efforts of students from NURS 4612 Promoting Wellness in the Aging Family taught by Dr. Aaron Loeb and ART 4903 Special Topics in Art History: Picturing Power taught by Dr. Sara Ishii-Bear. Driven by the aim to merge art and science ideologies, Dr. Loeb initially devised the idea of a collaborative project. With Dr. Ishii-Bear, the pair developed an assignment that brought together nursing students’ scientific medical knowledge and visual art students’ creative skills. The work exhibits the ways visual art can be used to educate the community on healthcare and showcase artwork that visually communicates chronic illnesses experienced by the aging population. Pedagogically, this project demonstrates the interconnectedness between art and science.

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    The Aftermath, 2024
    (2024) Jochetz, Charlotte
    The intention of this piece is to make the viewer feel the aloneness and detachment from reality, while fighting a losing battle. The enlarged diagram of the pancreas is used to educate the mass with a visual of what it actually looks like and what organs are attached, while simultaneously color coordinating with the patient's hospital gown with where the pancreas is located (behind the stomach). The family is suggested, showing that they are there for the patient, but cannot fully be there with them since they cannot stay overnight past visiting hours, and the patient is alone in the procedures and with treatments. The purple ribbons and the flower bouquets relate to the Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Ribbon color, showing support in their uphill battle. The patient themselves is smaller, as chemo and dietary restrictions take its toll. While working on this, my friend’s young niece was undergoing chemotherapy for her pancreatic cancer, so I was able to talk to a direct family member about the feelings and emotions felt while seeing their family go through the struggle that is pancreatic cancer. Medium: watercolor on paper Format: 11 x 14”