The Lab, in collaboration with a wide and growing network of partners and collaborators including Georgetown’s School of Health, Medical Humanities Initiative, Global Health Institute, School of Nursing, Lombardi Cancer Center, MedStar Health, Global Mental Health and Well-Being Initiative, and others, is proud to announce the launch of The Art of Care Initiative.
This Initiative builds on several years of interdisciplinary and cross-sector development and the successes of The Lab’s celebrated World Premiere stage production THE ART OF CARE at Mosaic Theater in Fall 2024.
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Caring Acts
Staged to rave reviews in 2024, The Art of Care highlighted the transformative power of caregiving and theater as a healing art. Today the theatrical production has grown into a university initiative exploring the role that narrative storytelling can play around care.
Sara Piccini, Georgetown Health Magazine, 2025.
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Tender, Often Invisible Ways We Care for One Another...
“The Art of Care
tells the stories of caregivers, of nurses and doctors, of teachers, of policymakers, of the seven performers’ own
raw stories of receiving and giving care.” Read the full article.
Elements of the Initiative
Regular In Your Shoes workshops on care and the development of performances built from these workshops
The collaborative creation of new curricula at the intersection of arts and health, beginning with an interdisciplinary Art of Care course to be launched in the Spring of 2026
Shorter, modular performances in the style of The Art of Care production that can be brought to various settings, such as conferences, hospitals, classrooms, to catalyze discussions and workshops
The creation of community networks, convenings, shared knowledge, and research for the many doing groundbreaking work at the intersection of arts and health
Select Critical Responses to The Art of Care
Production
“An extraordinary experience of communal connection…. At a time when the body politic is greatly in need of consoling, The Art of Care is as much a moving performance as it is a public health service. It models in real time what it could mean for human community if the art of theater were itself an act of care.”
– John Stoltenberg, DC Theater Arts
“A rich and empathetic piece that feels right at home at Mosaic Theater Company…We are all interdependent, the show insists, and the sooner we attune ourselves to each other’s needs, the better our world will become. … The Art of Care feels truly special. May we all find the courage to so readily take others into our care!”
– Morgan Musselman, Broadway World
Collaboration
