Art in Hospitals

Art in Portland’s Childrens’ Hospitals. Children’s Healing Art Project (CHAP) offers one-on-one classes for children in isolation and group classes in playrooms, lobbies and waiting rooms. CHAP classes include drawing, painting, sculpture, computer animation, beading, mask making and jewelry. CHAP classes offer a place where nervous energy is transformed into creative energy. Our common language is based in the creative process of making art, which crosses all gender, age, and cultural, religious and ethnic boundaries. CHAP classes offer an art experience that engages and inspires -- where children can be seen for their artistic talents and not for their diseases, diagnoses or disabilities.

CHAP works with over 10,000 children and their families each year in our partner facilities:

Doernbecher Children’s Hospital
Shriners Hospital for Children