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WILKINS ART ASSOCIATES is recognized as a leading art consulting firm that brings experience, creativity and dedication to major healthcare institutions and corporations.

SINCE 1983 , founder and Principal, Pam Wilkins has been leading a team of talented arts professionals to develop art master plans, exciting art collections, large exhibition programs, and donor recognition projects through a collaborative process with our clients.

Work with our clients ranges from selecting artwork for small renovation projects to art collections for eleven story replacement towers with over 500,000 square feet to campus master plans that include fund raising strategies for the arts.

Our philosophy is that artwork provides a universal language that fosters communication, learning,
and enjoyment and enrichment that enhances healing and a sense of well being for patients as well as visitors
and staff.

The selection of major art pieces and the key art locations is often coordinated with the clients architectural firm.We have worked with numerous architectural firms including:
Tsoi Kobus and Associates, Shepley Bulfinch Ricardson & Abbott, Steffian Bradley Architects, and TRO/Jung Brannen. These collaborations have resulted in unique art installations with the careful placement of art with architectural and interior features.

Art Master Plans developed with the vision, mission and goals of our clients results in the integration of art throughout the institutions with Art Programs that are carefully integrated into wayfinding, art collections, clinical treatment, art galleries, sculpture gardens, donor recognition and community programs.

Our extensive Registry of Artists and our continuous research for new artists world wide provides our clients with tremendous art selections.
We bring the arts of the client’s community as well as national and international art.

By working with local cultural and art resources, patients, visitors and staff feel a sense of pride and comfort. Artworks by national and international artists bring opportunities for learning and inspiration.

A wide variety of art media such as: mosaics, glass, photography, textiles, collage, mixed media as well as original paintings and sculptures by regional, national and international artists are found from the front entrance and main lobby through corridors, waiting rooms, patient rooms and treatment rooms.

 

With 25 years experience in establishing and directing all aspects of corporate and healthcare art collections and programs, she brings tremendous enthusiasm and energy as well as knowledge and experience to every project. Her contacts within the arts and healthcare field are valuable resources that enable her to find solutions to challenges quickly.
As one of the early consultants in the arts in healthcare movement, she has developed art programs for large tertiary care medical centers as well as community hospitals. One of Pam’s strengths is to work closely with the medical center staff to develop art collections and programs that are meaningful to the community as well as note worthy. Pam utilizes a process that is not only enjoyable but is also efficient and economical.
Naj brings his experience as a professional artist, storyteller and arts administrator with over thirty years in the field that include: developing the first cultural-Olympiad for a winter Olympics; using the arts to uplift the human spirit as director of Arts & Productions for the Cathedral Church St. John the Divine; developing arts and humanities programs in healthcare for over twelve years through the C. Everett Koop Institute at the Dartmouth Medical School; as the longest serving president (five years) of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare; and as a Fulbright Scholar recently developing pilot arts programs in hospitals across Russia.
Pam Wilkins
Naj Wikoff Art Master Planning Consultant

He is the author of monographs on the arts in healthcare, and avoiding burnout in medical school, the founder of a long-standing retreat for women living with cancer,and has trained artists internationally as to how to work in the healing environment.
Naj¹s approach is collaborative. As a “networker” and listener, he brings people together. He interviews as many people as he can: doctors, nurses, department heads, administrators, social workers, patients and their families, artists and arts leaders, to help create a shared vision and in so doing builds a well-spring of support. The result is a plan that supports the medical center's priorities, is unique to its place and people, and that is exciting and joyous.


Jasmin Davis-Shearer
Art Consultant

Jasmin has been an art consultant with Wilkins Art for the last five years. Managing the Wilkins Art registry of thousands of artists her exposure to art and artists is extraordinary. In addition to being a professionally trained multi-media poet, singer, dancer, painter and jeweler, she has worked in hospitals and health centers as a lactation consultant, childbirth educator and midwife. She has also taught art to
Children, high school students & adults in many schools and art centers.

Jasmin blends her skills as an artist, healthcare provider and consultant to help people use art in all forms as a tool for positive self expression and healing.
As a lead consultant on many Children’s Hospital Boston projects she brings in-depth experience and understanding of the art requirements in children’s hospitals. Wilkins Art Associates has initiated two unique surveys involving “children and art” and the “multicultural community and art” in which Jasmin has led the teams collecting and evaluating this information.

Elissa Melaragno
Consultant

With a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art, from the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd school of Art, Elissa has spent many years creating site-specific public arts installations and has a strong background in sales, marketing, renovation and interior design. She is the lead consultant for Maine Medical Center.

President
Melissa Woringer - Art Consultant

Since 2005, Melissa Woringer has been an art consultant for Weston-based Wilkins Art Associates, specializing in art selections for healthcare environments.  Most of her consulting has been spent at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis.  She selects artworks for all areas of the hospital, a pursuit that requires traveling throughout the Cape and southeastern Massachusetts to become acquainted with and select as wide a sampling of artists as possible. 
At the Cataumet Arts Center she has been a studio painter as well as director of the exhibit gallery, vice president and member of the board.  

In 1998 she curated the first of five thematic art exhibits there, the most notable being “The Laundry Show” and “Next of Kin.”  She has also been a juror for art exhibitions and an invited representative on the master's thesis board at Boston Architectural College. 
Melissa has worked in private industry and continues helping clients with web development and with various computer and design needs.  Originally from South Hadley Falls in western Massachusetts, she has lived on the Cape since 1979.  She is married and has one daughter.

Barbara Fletcher
Graphic Designer and Art Consultant

Barbara has a BFA in commercial art from Syracuse University and earned a certificate in AutoCAD design from Boston Architectural College. Her expertise with web and graphic design software programs is a vital resource for all WAA projects.

Her expertise includes visits to hundreds of hospitals both nationally and internationally.She enjoys working with Art Committees and is adept at presentations  to all levels of medical center staff, including the Board of Trustees. She has lectured and promoted the arts as an important component of the healing environment. She been invited to direct and speak for several television magazine shows,and her work has also been featured in many periodicals including Healthcare Design, July 2007. Her BA, MA and CAGS in Education and her years of public school teaching and administration of special needs children have enabled her to work effectively with art committees, medical center staff and Boards of Trustees.