Help a Cancer Patient Heal Through the Arts. Donate Today!

It is through the support and contributions of donors like you that we can provide art and music therapy programs and activities at no-cost to our cancer patients and their families. To sponsor a program or care it forward with a gift, please contact the development office at (313) 876-1031 or email developmenthf@hfhs.org. All contributions are tax-deductible.

In addition to monetary donations, gifts of time are invaluable for bringing healing arts programs to the cancer community.

Volunteer in the healing arts

Become an arts engagement volunteer

Provide patients and their loved ones with an enjoyable, engaging art experience that focuses on the process of making at, not the product, through listening, empathy and relationship building.
Apply online.

Share your passion for music as a visiting musician

Provide music for our guests, staff and patients. Music should be upbeat and pleasant.
Apply online.

Opportunities for artists

If you are an artist interested in sharing your time and/or talents with Henry Ford Cancer patients, families and staff, contact our healing arts curator.

Our generous healing arts supporters

About Lindsay Anderson

With a passion for the arts and a keen eye as an interior designer, Lindsay Anderson knows how important the right space can be. It was this passion that inspired her to establish the Lindsay Anderson Healing Arts Curator Fund at Henry Ford Health. This generous gift supports a curator for the Healing Arts program at the Brigitte Harris Cancer Pavilion. The Healing Arts Program creates a calming environment for patients, visitors and staff by integrating the creative arts and aesthetic experiences into the healing process.

About David DiChiera

dichiera music therapy donors — David DiChiera, left and Joanne Danto, right. Also featured in our 2018 annual report.

Music is more than just entertainment—it can promote healing, too. David DiChiera, founder and longtime director of the Michigan Opera Theatre knew this. In honor of David, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2018, Joanne Danto, along with her family through the Marvin & Betty Danto Foundation, established the David DiChiera Music Therapy Program at Henry Ford Cancer. Their goal is to ensure that cancer patients have access to healing therapies that better position them mentally and physically for their fight ahead.