Doctors' offices become the next art gallery

Healing Arts By Jodi Belgard • jbelgard@thetowntalk.com • July 18, 2008 Last year's Time magazine. They exist still, but they're beginning to have some competition. Central Louisiana Arts and Healthcare has made great strides in changing hospitals and doctor's office waiting rooms. Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Specialists in Alexandria is the latest healthcare facility to turn bare walls into art space. Alexandria artist Patty Gamburg is the first to work displayed at OSMS, where it will hang for two months before rotating out. Her "Reflections of the Soul" collection hangs alongside separate pieces including one titled "DNA" and another titled "Digging Up Bones." The latter, appropriately, is a skeleton. "A lot of them turned out to be ones that are figures of bodies," said Sara Fuhrer, who worked with Central Louisiana... [read full story]