Learn about our story, and hear from our student artists, art teachers, partners, as well as the patients, their loved ones, and healthcare staff.

Youth Art For Healing
In Action

Youth Art For Healing is excited to present this video about all that we have been doing during the 2022-23 school year and how we will be moving forward with the Matt Papirmeister Award for student artists in the future.

In the fall of 2021, Youth Art For Healing was delighted to collaborate with The Giving Square, an organization that recognizes children as leaders for a new model of philanthropy and gives them the tools, permission, and support to make a positive impact. We worked together to create a video for their Kids Teach Philanthropy video series, and we're pleased to share the full version of the video with you!

KIDS TEACH PHILANTHROPY: WHO DOES ART HELP?

KIDS TEACH PHILANTHROPY: HOW HAS ART HELPED YOU?

KIDS TEACH PHILANTHROPY:
GETTING STARTED IN USING YOUR ART TO HELP OTHERS

youth art for healing:
the magical power of brushstrokes

How does it all work? Learn about the step-by-step process that Youth Art For Healing follows to recruit and support students as they create artworks for healthcare environments.

Youth Art For Healing:
The Healthcare Experience

Learn more about how Youth Art For Healing partners with healthcare sites to bring uplifting artwork to patients, their loved ones, and healthcare professionals.

YOUTH ART FOR HEALING:
THE PROJECT BEGINS

Listen to students and teachers from Montgomery Blair High School talk about why they love participating in the Youth Art For Healing Program.

YOUTH ART FOR HEAlING:
THE PROJECT CONTINUES

Learn about how Youth Art For Healing works with our community partners and watch students as they move through the different stages of their projects, from sketching to painting, with guidance from our YAFH Art Advisors.

PATIENTS MEET
YAFH STUDENT ARTISTS

Watch as patients meet the students who created the paintings in the Radiology Suite at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital.

youth art for healing:
our mission

Youth Art For Healing depends on the generosity and support of individuals, corporations, foundations, healthcare organizations, and local businesses to carry out its mission. Please consider giving a tax-deductible gift online or by sending a check, made payable to Youth Art For Healing. Visit our Donate Page to learn more about current opportunities to give.

Some of our student artists are not only talented painters, but also enjoy putting together time-lapse videos of their creative process. Please enjoy viewing these outstanding time-lapse videos created by our students over the past few years.

The first time-lapse video was created by Duyen, a high school student artist, during the 2021-22 school year. The video shows her working throughout the year on her beautiful painting, which is now permanently installed at MedStar Health Physical Therapy at Ellicott City.

The second video, created by high school student artists Nora and Julia, shows the students’ beautiful painting as it progressed during the 2019-20 school year. This painting is now installed at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C.