The year 2025 is the 75th anniversary of the publication of Charles Schultz’s beloved comic strip, ‘Peanuts.’
Providence Swedish Medical Centers Providence First Hill Campus was gifted with a perfect way to mark the occasion: Artfully.
The hospital will install a 56-inch-by-49-inch, six-panel mural featuring the comic strip’s characters—Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock, Linus, Lucy, Sally, and Franklin all dancing with glee.
Two things make this art special.
First, it’s been painted with the help of the hospital’s doctors, nurses, patients, and volunteers using easy to follow templates.
And second, the hospital is one of only 75 health-care facilities in the world – and the only one in Washington state – to receive the mural from Peanuts Worldwide and the Foundation for Hospital Art. The artwork will be a permanent installation.
Painting panels was an opportunity for hospital community connection. (Image: Providence Swedish Medical Centers)
“Snoopy represents the best of all of us with his imagination, confidence, resilience, and of course, enormous good humor,” said Dr. Elizabeth Meade, a pediatric hospitalist and medical director of Quality for Providence Swedish’s Pediatrics. “This is exactly what we’d like every person to feel as they walk through our doors.”
The panels are now head back to Georgia-based Foundation for Hospital Art, which will have them touched up by a professional artist before they are framed and shipped back to Seattle.
Peanuts mural patient
The whole mural, which is part of the the Peanuts Worldwide ‘Take Care with Peanuts’ initiative, will be be hung in the Pediatrics unit in late November or early December. Launched in 2020, the seven-continent effort encourages people across the globe to “take care”—of themselves, each other and the planet.
