PROGRAM
Glaze Founding Hospital Program
For pediatric hospitals and research institutions.
WHY
Restoring patients’ sense of agency through art-making.
Glaze is a digital tool that activates works of art for medical care — patients paint, not only observe. It works with a hospital’s own art collection, or with one we build together from our museum library.
HYPOTHESIS
An authentic process creates focus — the brush and paints behave like real materials, so every gesture leaves a trace slightly different from the one the patient expected.
Focus sustained across a session becomes flow.
Flow raises the sense of agency.
A hypothesis, not a finding. It is why the program is built to be studied.
From the ward to home — patients keep painting the same collection after discharge
What every participating institution receives
Every implementation is built for a single hospital — its collection, its ward, its clinicians.
CUSTOMIZED PLATFORM
A dedicated build of Glaze for your hospital: your ward, your workflow, your branding
GUIDED IMPLEMENTATION
Seven stages run alongside your clinicians, from discovery and IT review to staff training and launch
CURATED ARTWORK COLLECTION
Around ten works chosen with your team — from your own holdings, or built together from our museum library
ONGOING ADAPTATION
New artworks, revised content and changes drawn from what the ward learns — your implementation keeps developing after launch
CUSTOM EDUCATIONAL CONTENT
Sketches, tutorials and guided painting experiences written for your works, reviewed for clinical tone with your tea
SELF-GUIDED TOOL
The app takes about two minutes to understand - after launch, patients use it on their own
Try Glaze on one tablet first. A free demonstration build with five artworks
PARTICIPATION
Three ways to join the program
Institutions do not licence an application. They join a program that develops alongside them — shaping the content, the clinical workflow and the questions we explore together.
Each program has its own purpose and its own qualifying criteria. They are not tiers of the same offer.
Hospital Program
For hospitals joining after the Founding cohort has closed.
Price per year.
$40,000
INCLUDES
Implementation & custom development
New features and platform updates
Participation in the roadmap
Founding Hospital Program
For the first institutions building the program with us.
Limited to 20 institutions. Price per year.
$20,000
INCLUDES
Implementation & custom development
Rate held for as long as the institution remains in the program
Direct influence on the roadmap
Joint definition of best practice
First access to new features and platform updates
Sponsored Research Partnership
For institutions running an agreed research program.
Sponsorship for the duration of the study.
Sponsored
INCLUDES
Everything in the Hospital Program
Custom development required by the study — data collection, measurement instruments, changes to the application flow
Research designed, conducted and published independently — by Knology, an independent non-profit social science research organisation, or by the institution’s own researchers
Well of Art provides the technology and the implementation — never the study itself
Scope of each study agreed separately with the institution and its review board
If the institution continues after the study, it does so at the Founding Hospital rate
Founding members pay half the standard rate — for as long as they stay in the program.
HOW IMPLEMENTATION WORKS
From the first conversation to the ward
Seven stages, run together with the hospital team. Each one is set out in full in the implementation guide.
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Who the program is for, how tablets reach patients, who leads it on the hospital side, and how success will be defined at 6 and 12 months.
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The hospital’s own artworks, or a collection built together from our museum library — reviewed with a curator and shortlisted with the hospital team.
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Security documentation, risk assessment and data compliance review (HIPAA / GDPR) with the hospital’s IT team.
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The interface with the selected collection, then the educational content — sketches, tutorials, artwork descriptions — developed through review rounds with the clinical and art therapy team.
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Final collection, visual and content sign-off, and any measurement tools the institution wants integrated.
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Deployment, staff training, and the first tablets on the ward.
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Quarterly sessions with the hospital team, content updates, collection expansion, and research collaboration where applicable.
The pace is set by the hospital’s own IT, security and compliance review — that is the key variable, and it belongs to the hospital’s process, not to ours.
On our side, the build and onboarding typically take a few months of active collaboration. Glaze has already completed a full two-year security, compliance and risk review at a US academic children’s hospital.
SEE IT IN PRACTICE
Walkthrough — the dedicated Glaze implementation at Stanford Medicine Children's Health
BEFORE THE PROGRAM
Start with one tablet.
01 Download Glaze from the App Store
Free, no account. iPad only, not iPhone. An Apple Pencil if you have one; fingers work too.
02 Open the app’s settings and enter the code
The settings panel inside Glaze, not your iPad’s system settings. The demonstration collection replaces the default one.
The demonstration profile shows the complete flow of a dedicated build: sample artworks and educational materials of different kinds and at different levels of difficulty.
For a partner hospital, the flow is adapted to that institution’s own requirements.
code demo
WHICH PROGRAM FITS
Hospital Program — open to any hospital.
Founding Hospital Program — institutions willing to shape content, workflow and best practice with us, and to remain in dialogue as the platform develops.
Sponsored Research Partnership — institutions with a defined research question and a route through their own review board. The study may be run with Knology or by the institution’s own researchers.
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH
The program is built to be studied — by researchers, not by us. Well of Art provides the technology and the clinical implementations; scientific evaluation is designed, conducted and published independently by Knology, a non-profit social science research organisation.
Learn about our research model →
A NOTE ON HOSPITAL ART COLLECTIONS
Many hospitals maintain art collections — acquired with the belief that cultural engagement supports patient wellbeing. Glaze gives those collections a new function: a structured creative experience that patients can participate in, not only observe. For hospitals without an existing collection, we build one together from our library of museum content.
IMPLEMENTATION & CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT
Every participating institution may propose custom functionality supporting its clinical workflow, its implementation process or its research activity.
Proposals are reviewed and prioritised together with the institution. Functionality of general value is built into the platform and becomes available to every participant — which is how the program grows.