Our Services

Every day across North Carolina, our team of staff members, volunteers, interns, and teaching fellows brightens the lives and healthcare experiences of children and families facing serious illnesses and disabilities. By bringing visual art, music, and creative writing education into hospitals and clinics, we help these children and teens remember that they’re not just patients: they’re artists, musicians, and poets, with a world of possibility at their fingertips.

While our art and music lessons may not change a diagnosis, they do have the power to transform the healthcare experience for thousands of patients and families. We’ve partnered with children’s hospitals, clinics, and community organizations to run successful, permanent art stations, bedside studios, and art groups for pediatric patients of all ages.

Arts For Life puts creativity, discovery, and joy into the hands and hearts of children who need it the very most.