Handful of Dark

Ruth Slavin is an art museum educator who has worked to connect art and medicine since 2009, currently as part of the Medical Humanities Path team at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her interests are in art and empathy, mindfulness and well-being, living with ambiguity and uncertainty, and deepening connection with the self and with others through art.

She coauthored Activating the Art Museum: Designing Experiences for the Health Professions with colleagues Ray Williams and Corinne Zimmermann, published in May 2023 by the American Alliance of Museums.