Executive Director
Judy Ginsburgh
Judy is the founder and Executive Director of Central Louisiana Arts & Healthcare.
She is the primary administrator for the program. She also provides music for palliative care patients and in her other
life, is a professional singer and recording artist. To visit Judy's music website, click on her picture.
Barry Owen has been with Arts & Healthcare since 2004. He is a respected collage
artist and teacher and facilitates many of the visual arts activities for our programs. He maintains a working art studio
at River Oaks Square. Barry is also in charge of our cancer center rotating art galleries.
JoAnne Thompson is in charge of our visual arts programs at the Cabrini Cancer Center.
A cancer survivor herself, JoAnne is acutely sensitive to the needs of patients and caregivers dealing with cancer.
She is a professional artist and teacher who maintains an art studio at River Oaks Square.
Sara Fuhrer is a professional artist who has a studio at River Oaks Square. She
has been working with Arts & Healthcare since 2006. Sara has just been named our Visual Arts Supervisor. She
oversees all of our visual arts programming and is in charge of our large gallery spaces of rotating art. She also visits
the CHF Clinic at Cabrini once a week providing art projects for patients.
Dr. Bill Hedrick
is our resident poet. His poetry booklet Vitamin P is featured in waiting rooms throughout the hospitals. He teaches
Kripalu yoga and visits patients at the hospitals sharing his love of poetry.
Clowns Queenie K. (pictured with a nurse) and Dr. Lovey have worked with Arts
& Healthcare since 2006. They bring humor and hugs into the hospitals each month.
Dance Fitness Instructor, Cassandra Davis has worked with Arts & Healthcare since
2006. She presents dance concerts in the hospital lobbies and makes visits to the Rehab Gym at Cabrini once a month.
Earleen Baillio and the Dancin' Dames entertain at the hospitals several times a year.
They are always a hit!
The Gary Cathey band brings their easy listening music to the hospitals once a month.