Ninety One Kites in the Summa Healing Arts Collection For New Patient Tower

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The new patient tower on the Summa Health System — Akron Campus designed by Hasenstab Architects features 90 unique pieces of art by 53 artists, all with Northeast Ohio ties. I’m honored that my work “Ninety One Kites” is part of this collection.
From the Summa website:
“Summa Health promotes a healthcare environment that surrounds and connects patients, visitors and staff with the healing powers of the arts.”
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I’m honored to be a part of Summa Health’s new Healing Arts Collection for the new Patient Tower at the Akron campus. Special thank you to Meg Harris Stanton, curator – Summa Health Healing Arts Leadership Council, for selecting my work “Ninety One Kites” where it has been placed on the fifth floor across from the nurses station. I like it’s location. Not only do patients and visitors benefit from the arts in healthcare, staff especially does so. Also, a special thank you to Christine Havice, Chair, Summa Health Healing Arts Leadership Council. With her background as an arts educator in art history, journalist, curator and consultant, she researched and wrote about each artist, artwork and the artists process. With dedicated web page’s for each, it’s a great resource to view and study the collection. Below is excerpt of what she wrote on my page:

After viewing this print, you may also find his reflections helpful in negotiating the visual arts world of today, where both digital and the older “analogue” techniques co-exist and often, as here and in certain other works of art in the Summa Collection, interpenetrate in new and exciting ways.

Click here to learn more about the artwork “Ninety One Kites”.

Below are some great works in the collection.

*New Summa Health Akron Campus New Patient Tower. Sculpture in foreground “Beacon of Well-Being” by* **Stephen Canneto** *, photo: summahealth.org*

**Diana Al-Hadid**
*A Way with Words, 2019*
*Materials: Polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, plaster, gold leaf, aluminum leaf, copper leaf, pigment, 160.5 x 96 x 5.5”.*
*From left: Cliff Deveny, M.D., Diana Al-Hadid and David Custodio, M.D., during Al-Hadid’s art installation in the new tower on the Summa Health System — Akron Campus*
*photo: summahealth.org*

**Shane Wynn**
Pictured, from left:
*Neema & Phul*
*Asha & Furaha*
from the North Hill series, 2018
Materials: Color digital print, 48 x 32”.
Location at Summa Health: New patient tower (141 N. Forge St.), hallway, second floor.
photo: summahealth.org

**Marvin Jones**
*Untitled*, undated
Materials: Mixed media monoprint 37 3/8 x 24 5/8”.
*photo: summahealth.org*

The Collection

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