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.
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 works part-time
overseeing our large gallery spaces of rotating art. She also visits the CHF Clinic at Cabrini 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.
We are also lucky to have Liz & Michael with Family Missions entertain patients with balloon art and face painting.
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!