Friday, September 30, 2011
THE ART CENTER:The Art Center Cooperative, Inc.: ABSTRACT ART EXHIBIT
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Art Update # 4
#4 and final . We have 2 excellent nurses (I want use their names without permission) at South involved in the Jean Watson Caritas Coach Education Program. A goal for all three of us, along with the hospital administration has been to create a caring room for staff. My job was to do a painting that would help decompress, if for only a brief moment ,the stress level of being an Intensive Care Nurse.The staff voted on a topic (seascape) and I painted a very large 4'x4' canvas which was hung yesterday in the Caring Room. I am so happy to be a part of this project and think so highly of this caring staff.
Art Update #3
Art update #2
Update on my ART #1
Please drop in to see my abstract art work. The exhibit is currently going on downtown Jacksonville at The Premier Gallery in The Bank of America Tower on the entrance floor just off the main lobby. The Bank of America Tower is located 50 North Laura Street the gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday 11am-3pm. Just tell Elaine you were invited by me. Many Thanks, Patty
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
You have got to check this out.
October 14, 2009
My first day back to work since returning from the International Caritas Consortium and Caritas Coach Program . What a great trip to Wyoming. Today was the first meeting to plan the pilot at Baptist Medical South. After being exposed to the above, I assure you I am not lacking inspiration.
Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Great Job Ladies!

Saturday, September 12, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
JOURNALING MY CARITAS JOURNEY
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Journaling My Caritas Journey
Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty
Journaling My Caritas Journey

Instilling/enabling faith and hope.
Journaling My Caritas Journey

Journaling My Caritas Journey
A collage of photos from our painted silk scarf workshop.Friday, September 4, 2009
Journaling My Caritas Journal

How do you like my "ARTSY CARNIVAL BRA and Mask". It was fun making it. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Art Center is raising money for this worthy cause. Several artist have designed bras that will be auctioned to the highest bidder.
This is an important FUNDRAISER for the TAC and for two local breast cancer foundations: Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Donna Foundation.
The Silent Auction is October 10th, I will be in Wyoming during that time finishing up my class. I know it will be a great event. Hope you can come and support our women in the fight against breast cancer.
Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty
Monday, August 31, 2009
Journaling My Caritas Journey
Today is a very important day for me. I will meet again with members of our Excutive Team at Baptist Health to discuss a pilot project designed to bring an enhanced level of care to the bedside of patients at Baptist Medical Center South. The goal is to introduce a pioneering program dedicted to exploring the relationship between creating a therapeutic environment using creative arts to promote and enhance wellness.
Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Journaling My Caritas Journey
August 5, 2009
Today I drove to Flagler Beach to attend a work shop on silk painting taught by Susan Kenthack. What a perfect project to implement at the bedside. A project requiring no skills and you end up with a beautiful authentic silk scarf signed by the designing patient. The scarf dries very quickly and the patient can wrap themselves up in the healing colors with amazement that during their time of recovery they created this glorious comfort cloth. As you can tell I am very excited about this project and it's therapeutic value.
Caritas Process 8 Creating healing environment at all levels (physical, nonphysical, subtle environment of energy and consciousness whereby wholeness, beauty,comfort, dignity, and peace are potentiated( Being /Becoming the environment)

Pictured above is the scarf I painted in Susan's workshop. I have it snuggled around my Caritas Journal. There is more to come!
Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty
Journaling My Caritas Journey
Meet the Artist, Patty Magee, RN at 12 noon
in The Library for Healing, September 16, 2009
"Art as a Way of Caring"
Friday, July 31, 2009
Journaling My Caritas Journey

July 31, 2009
Carative Factors 3
Cultivating Sensitivity to oneself and other.
Today I visited my favorite framer Annette Conger of Finely Framed.
She completed the framing my elephant nurse. I am preparing for my "Weaving Wellness" art exhibit at Baptist Medical Center in the Library of Healing. This is part of my Caritas project. The exhibit will be from September 2-30 and my opening will be on September 16 at 12 noon in the beautiful downtown Healing Library. Annette documented the outside frame size 18" x 23" and then she ask me for the title of the drawing for her computer files. I answered "We are the ones we are waiting for" and with big presence. She gave me a curious look and asks for clarification. Idiom: "Elephant in the Room" is a problem that everyone knows about but no one talks about. I must credit Dr. Mary Rockwood Lane at University of Florida for suggesting this title for my drawing. Her thought is that we are the ones waiting for cultural and value change in Nursing . We tend to think that someone else will do it, but the world is waiting for us. She says, "stop waiting for someone else to open the door." "If you don't do it, who do you think is going to do it?"
Caritas Process 3 Cultivating one's own spiritual practices; deepening self awareness, going beyond "self ego". Dr. Jean Watson supports this vision on a international level, may we all recognize the" Elephant in the Room" as our self. Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Journaling My Caritas Journey
Carative Factor 6
Systematic use of scientific (creative) problem solving caring process
Above are hard working employee's of our Performance Improvement Department at Baptist Medical Center. Tonight together, we are winding down the work day with watercolor therapy, a Caritas candle and Enya playing in the background. Tonight's agenda was not so much about "Performance" but about loosening up more than just a paint brush stroke. We talked about the role that creativity can play to reduce stress, improve health and actually increase productivity in the work place. For us paint pushers there is sometimes a hesitation about how we apply color to our canvas. Tonight all participants were successful in breaking through that barrier. Experimentation, exploration was allowed and honored, everyone rose to the occassion.
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. Robert Frost
Caritas Process 6
Creative use of self and all ways of knowing/being /doing as part of the caring process (engaging in artistry of caring- healing practices) Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty
Friday, July 24, 2009
Journaling My Caritas Journey
Carative Factors 1
Humanistic-altruistic values
Caritas Process 1
Practicing loving-kindness and equanimity for self and others. Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty
Journaling My Caritas Journey
Carative Factor 7 :
Promotion of Interpersonal Teaching and Learning.
Today I met with the Healing Art Advisory Committee at Baptist Medical Center. We were all from different disciplines but shared one commonality and that is Art and Health Care. One of our functions is to discuss curating art for the beautiful Library of Healing gallery. We learned from each other, much like a patient at the bedside bringing in a different point of view and different background of knowledge.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Journaling My Caritas Journey
Carative Factor 10Allowing for existential phenomenological dimensions
July 23, 2009
Here they come ready or not, I'm calling my acrylic panel completed . This 8 foot long canvas panel will join others from the The Art Center in a Literary kick off at Gregory Drive Elementary School Library. The grand opening of the Library will be in September.
As you know, I am caretaker of my Mom for nine days while my sister and her husband are on vacation. Mom has been very involved in this painting project by giving me critiques and comments daily. I noticed that symptoms of her condition were minimal during this time. The deadline date arrived and it was time to turn in the art ready or not. When this creative activity/interest was no longer in the house, I noticed a return of her symptoms. Hey, you know how I feel, Art is Healing , but there is certainly room for Jean Watson's Caritas Process 10.
Opening and attending to spiritual mysterious, unknown existential dimensions of life and death-suffering "allowing for a miracle"
Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Journaling My Caritas Journey
Caritas outside professional nursing is alive and well.
I have the great pleasure of knowing an entire family of caring people. This family is noted for visiting and caring for the sick or homebound individual. A Caritas Family for sure! How do families deal with death? We all deal with death of a loved one differently. I would like to share the way my Aunt Lottie's children choose to honor their Mother after her death. Several months had passed after the funeral, yet the wardrobe of the deceased remained hanging in the closet and the children were unable to come to terms with what to do with their Mother’s clothes. These dresses were special because many of them were handmade with love by their Mother. In an effort to keep her memory alive, this creative family took these garments , cut them up and made aprons adding buttons, lace, pockets, and blending fabrics requiring a tremendous amount of designing imagination. After completion the family distributed them to other family members and friends who where close to their Mother. What a wonderful tribute and imaginative way to keep alive pleasant memories of a loved one.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Journaling My Caritas Journey
July 10, 2009 Monday, July 6, 2009
Journaling My Caritas Journey
Mom came home from the rehab center today . The therapeutic support from medical staff,family,friends and effective antibiotic treatment has improved her condition. I will be living with and caring for her part of this month. As you know objectivity is sometimes minimized when caring for a loved one, here lies my true test as a Caritas Coach.
Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty
Journaling My Caritas Journey
I am so happy to announce an invitation to participate in a "health festival" with the Oldest Drug Store in the United States located in St. Augustine, Fl.
I will be connecting art and wellness with art work along with others who will be featuring old city remedies. The emphasis of the festival will be the belief system of healing from the inside out, using herbs ,teas, shea butter, black soap, natural remedies and of course ART. Hope you can join us for this event. Will keep you posted. Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Journaling My Caritas Journey

Saturday, June 27, 2009
Journaling My Caritas Journey

January Update 2010
Thank you Baptist South for opening your doors to the pilot for art at the bedside. The "Caring Art Program" is in it's third month and the patients and staff have been outstanding with supporting this effort.
Connecting Art and Wellness
Resident Artist, Patty
December 1, 2009, Florida State College
Tonight I spoke with a group of graduating nurses regarding my art at the bedside pilot at Baptist Medical Center South. I was also privileged to share the Million Nurse Project Launch 12 noon on Jan. 1, 2010 for a global healing experience. Tina Devoe demonstrated the technique of Healing Touch. It was her idea to do a slide show of my Weaving Wellness /Caritas paintings. It work out great because it open the door to share Caritas Language with the students.
A great evening with promising faces.
Connecting Art and Wellness, Patty
Art as a Way of Caring
Jouraling My Caritas Journey
Family. ..Traditions..Legacy all a part of Caring.
Connecting Art and Wellness
http://www.pattymagee.com/
November a Time of Thanks.
April 3,2009 Hands of Jacksonville Award
Photo by Mary Atwood
My web site
Posted in the Cafe at Five Points
Latitude Cafe'
A little taste of the World
1024 Park Street Jacksonville, Fl 32204
904-379-6836
Featured Artist Patty Magee
On the globe and the celestial sphere Latitude and Longitude are very significant. You may want to tell someone where you are. But sometimes where you are is not where you would like to be. The Art of Patty Magee takes us to a place of relaxation and composure. It could be south of the border or most any costal region. Allow the tropical ambiance to provide an escape, a mini vacation if you will.
Patty works from the premise that Art is healing for all of us. As a Nurse and Artist, each profession requires creativity. Research shows us that creativity has a positive effect on our immune system and can improve our health. Sharing this with others from both professional capacities is her desire.
Patty is a graduate of UNF with a Bachelors degree in Behavioral Medicine and Studio Arts. She was the recipient of a Fine Arts grant and has exhibited at UNF gallery, other venues in Florida and internationally.
Please sit back, take a deep breath, and reduce your stress with the visual images provided by Patty, as you enjoy the cuisine selected from many Latitudes.
My Web Site
My alter ego is Poppy the Clown
Take a look at my new web site!
Patty Magee / Art and Healing Article
Daily Record
Article reprints available.Find out more.
04/02/2008
One of the highlights of this evening’s First Wednesday Art Walk will be the debut of a unique work at The Art Center Cooperative Inc. Sixteen of the member artists each created a 36-inch by 24-inch canvas in their own style. When the panels are assembled, the “Mosaic” creates a 16-foot by 6-foot representation of the Downtown skyline as seen from the Southbank. Artists Patty Magee (left) and Scott Morris put the finishing touches on the installation. Magee said the mosaic will be on exhibit until May 6 or until it is purchased. “We think it would make a great addition to a company’s lobby,” she added. The Art Center Cooperative Gallery on West Adams Street is open during each Art Walk and other times by appointment. For more information, call 355-1757.
The Art Center Cooperative, Art Awareness Luncheon, Photo in Daily Record
officers: Secretary Annelies Dykgraaf, Assistant Treasurer Elaine Bedell, President Lora Davis-Herringsen, Treasurer Patty Magee and Vice President Marsha Hatcher.
DEDICATED JWS MEMBER AND VOLUNTEER
PATTY MAGEE
Would you believe it? Full time job, full-time wife to Woody for thirty some years, mom and grand mom, part-time artist and Patty Magee still finds time to work on her Master’s Degree in Art in Healing, her formal background and education are in Studio Art and Behavioral Medicine.
Patty is one of those decidedly extraordinary women who has found her calling and who is working hard at reaching her goal which is to bring culture and art back into the hospital realm; providing a way to bring added purpose to someone’s life and helping them to feel as an individual again. She feels that creativity in any art form definitely has its place in the health care field having the capacity to heal the body, mind and spirit and likes to use that in her position as a Registered Nurse at Baptist Medical Center. She says “As Medical Professionals we think of the mind and body but all too often neglect the spirit. My interest now lies in healing the spirit of individuals” and feels this would be beneficial not only to patients but to the family and staff as well. “A creative mind set actually affects your immune system and is totally therapeutic . The spirit has to be healed before the patient will get better. It’s all integrated but we’ve gotten sterile an oftentimes forget the humanness… “
After high school and college, Patty began taking art classes for personal enjoyment and “just to feel good.” Working in watercolor, acrylics and sometimes oil, she is motivated by networking and working with other artists. As a long-time member she has been a great asset to JWS, always willing to lend a helping hand when needed and for the past three years has been assistant membership chair of the Membership Committee. She is also a member of The Art Center, JCVA and the Society of Arts in Health Care and is currently represented by five galleries in Florida. At present, she is net working with the people from the Art Medicine Program at UF Shands Hospital in hopes of starting a Healing Art Program.
francesca tabor-miolla, President - JWS
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Painted Sandollar
I love to collect seashells and I have always been fascinated with the Legend of the Sandollar. SAND DOLLARS are difficult to paint on because they are so porous, but the effort is worth it. They make beautiful conversation pieces.
Why paint landscapes?
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