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Margaret Lee, MD\u201999, PhD\u201905, has left her mark on the creative life of the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC). Literally, with her fingerprint that typically forms the \u201cO\u201d in Whorl on the cover of the annual BUMC literary and arts journal which she co-founded as a first-year medical student, and the student-run organization known as the Creative Arts Society which she also co-founded that year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that everybody is creative,\u201d said Lee, now an assistant professor of pediatric dermatology and co-faculty advisor for the Creative Arts Society.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started the Creative Arts Society because I knew that all of the artistic activities I had done throughout my life were helpful to my health and well-being. And because it\u2019s fun, and can be cathartic,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
After 25 years as an online and print publication, Whorl went silent for the past three years of the pandemic. It is being revived this year, appropriately enough, by two first-year medical students. They recently put out a call for submissions for paintings and digital art, photography, fashion (a new feature added this year), short prose, dance and music performances (also a new feature), poetry and more. It\u2019s open to everyone on the medical campus, including students, faculty and staff. Submission guidelines can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n When she arrived on campus, first-year medical student Aurore Zhang knew she wanted to join a student art organization. She found the Creative Arts Society, talked with Lee and agreed to take on the task of reviving Whorl. Zhang knew she needed to build a team and enlisted fellow first-year student Nikki Prattipati as co-editor.<\/p>\n \u201cThe skills that I gain from being an artist do translate well into medicine, to being a doctor,\u201d said Zhang, who enjoys painting, especially digital art. \u201cI noticed that, while studying, the concepts stick better because I\u2019m more visual.\u201d<\/p>\n Zhang said she\u2019s excited to see what can be done with a revamped Whorl.<\/p>\n \u201cI definitely enjoy writing for myself. It\u2019s a way that I reflect and process the experiences I\u2019ve had,\u201d said Prattipati. \u201cWe all hope that it will be a very welcoming process for people to submit their pieces and share their experiences. Art can be very personal, but if they want to share it with others, they should submit.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPart of the idea of founding the Creative Arts Society was about the idea that you do not have to have an MD to promote health in others and in yourself, that the arts are very healing,\u201d said Lee.<\/p>\n Submissions are due by 5 p.m. on Jan. 15, 2023. Click on this link<\/a> to access submission form and guidelines. Check out previous issues here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Writing, visual arts, dance and music pieces due by Jan. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,123,156],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117948"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118524,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117948\/revisions\/118524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}