Artist Lisa Voight transforms children's hospital exam rooms into vibrant, engaging spaces with her colorful murals, helping to ease anxiety and create a more positive experience for young patients.
For many kids, the sterile white walls of a doctor’s office can make a routine checkup scary. At Cook Children’s Pediatric Southwest, however, enter an exam room and you’ll see something different: a koala perched in a colorful eucalyptus tree, a kangaroo with two joeys in its pouch hopping through a bed of yellow flowers, and a smiling alligator. “It makes the office come alive,” Ashley Lugo, a medical lab scientist at Cook Children’s Southwest, said.
“The children love to see the paintings and it keeps their mind off the reason they are visiting the physician.”Artist Lisa Voight painted murals in 20 rooms at Cook Children’s Southwest, ranging in theme from Dr. Seuss to safari. She even included a toucan in the blood draw room to give kids a distraction from the needle.Voight, a Fort Worth native, remembers fondly creating and consuming art as a child. Murals, specifically, are one of Voight’s favorite forms of art. She likes “painting large” and seeing how much paint can change a space, making it more interesting and personal.“It feels like magic to me,” she said. “Being able to go in there every day and getting to see kids go into the rooms I’d finished and hear their reaction, and then have them come up to me and ask questions.”Artist Lisa Voight Voight painted murals in 20 rooms at Cook Children s Southwest, ranging in theme from Dr. Seuss to safari.As the mother of two, Voight understands that a doctor’s office can make children very nervous. But seeing her and her art opens children up to a new experience. “Even the little tiny ones would stop and be staring at all the colors and pointing at the animals,” she said. “I think it’s important developmentally for them, too.”Kate Jennings, a children and teen therapist from Fort Worth, grew up going to Cook Children’s Southwest. Now, her two kids go there. One thing both Jennings and her children love about the office are the mural
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