Harborview Medical Center
Grown over four decades, a public hospital’s special collection is rooted in the power of art to mitigate stress and support healing.
For more than a century, Harborview Medical Center has functioned as a unique community and regional resource. It is a county hospital, a teaching and research institution, a regional trauma and burn center, and the primary health care provider for many low-income and disenfranchised people in the community. Harborview embraces its mission of treating everybody regardless of economic status or cultural background, with exceptional care.
Established in 1977, the King County Public Art Collection at Harborview is based on the belief that the arts can help counterbalance the emotional, psychological, technological, and institutional intensities of the medical center—art reduces stress and conveys a sense of individual dignity and worth. The hospital’s public spaces, specialty clinics, and corridors promote a healing environment with an extensive range of portable artworks: approximately 500 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and fiber-based works.
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Over the last four decades, the collection has grown not only in the number of artworks it encompasses, but also in the geographic distribution of the artists represented. The scale of individual projects has also increased, now including major site-specific and architecturally integrated artworks.
4Culture works in partnership with the hospital and the University of Washington, which manages Harborview, to steward the medical center’s comprehensive public art program, including works from Harborview’s own collection, which is overseen by its staff. “Creating a Place to Heal,” an art plan created by Fernanda D’Agostino in 2002, guides Harborview’s ongoing investment in art.
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Cellular Flow
Katie Miller
Harborview Medical Center
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Harborview Art Plan: Creating a Place to Heal
Fernanda D’Agostino
Harborview Medical Center
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The Sky + The Conservation of Angular Momentum
Donald Varnell
Harborview Medical Center
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Hand Dog Pull Toy + Turtles and Transitions
Adrian Arleo
Harborview Medical Center
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Shapers
Susan Point
Harborview Medical Center
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Walk to the Mountain
Gloria Bornstein
Harborview Medical Center
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Tree of Life
Seyed Alavi
Harborview Medical Center
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Bella Figura + Throne Room
Ellen Sollod
Harborview Medical Center
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Memory, Myth, Motif
Eric Nelsen
Harborview Medical Center
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Harborview Pillows
Beliz Brother
Harborview Medical Center
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Ice Cube Tray
Isaac Layman
Harborview Medical Center
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Love
Akio Takamori
Harborview Medical Center
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Window Treatments
Celeste Cooning, Eroyn Franklin, Tory Franklin, Kate Sweeney
Harborview Medical Center
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Still Life
Gaylen Hansen
Harborview Medical Center
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Dispersion Field
Eric Eley
Harborview Medical Center
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Lunar Rhythmic Revolution
Robert Horner
Harborview Medical Center
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Comfort Zone
Sheila Klein
Harborview Medical Center
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Full Circle
Linda Beaumont
Harborview Medical Center
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Bridge
Beliz Brother
Harborview Medical Center
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Vereinigung
Connie Watts
Harborview Medical Center
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Keep Them Well
Tad Savinar
Harborview Medical Center