Experience L.A.: Hospital of Emotions

Event details Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026 Time: 4:30 PM to 8:00 PM Location: Hospital of Emotions - 2131 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90057 Type: Arts, Student Life, Health and Community Well-Being Campus: Other Location Department: Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative Audience: Students About this event ADMISSION: Admission is free and open to current USC students only, who must use the provided transportation to attend. Space is limited and advance registration is required. RSVP beginning Monday, August 3, at 10 a.m. Tickets will be distributed at check-in on the day of the event. Check-in will begin at 3:45 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 4:30 p.m. and return to campus at 8 p.m. Dinner will be provided., DESCRIPTION: Heal your heART USC students are invited to join Visions and Voices for a visit to the Hospital of Emotions, a large-scale immersive pop-up exhibition in Los Angeles, where art, architecture,: and human emotion come together inside a real hospital building. For a limited time, a former hospital is transformed into a living museum of emotions. 70 artists have taken over 80+ hospital rooms, creating site-specific immersive environments. Each room explores a different human emotion—joy, love, fear, anger, hope, sadness, gratitude, resilience, and more—allowing visitors to discover unexpected emotional worlds. The tour will include the opportunity to hear from and speak with two designers from the Scene Shift Collective who created one of the rooms in the Hospital of Emotions: Maureen Weiss, professor of scenic design at LACC Theatre Academy, and Sibyl Wickersheimer, professor of scenic design at USC School of Dramatic Arts. Their most recent project for the Hospital of Emotions was inspired by the theme of compassion. Over the course of two weeks, a team of puppet makers, prop, scenic, and costume designers collaborated to craft an installation that blends theatrical storytelling with visual artistry. The Hospital of Emotions pop-up will run through September 30. To attend on your own, purchase tickets at hospitalofemotions.com. BIOS: Maureen Weiss is a Los Angeles–based performance designer whose work spans theatre, immersive experiences, and exhibition design. Her designs have been seen at The Getty Villa, the Latino Theater Company, International City Theatre, and 18th Street Arts Center, among others. She is the co-author of Scene Shift: U.S. Set Designers in Conversation. Maureen teaches scenic design at Los Angeles City College and is committed to creating evocative visual worlds that foster collaboration, storytelling, and audience connection. Sibyl Wickersheimer is a Los Angeles-based set designer. Her interests span design for live performance, installations, and museum exhibitions to design for mental health care initiatives. Her foundation as a theatrical set designer led Sibyl to co-author the book Scene Shift: U.S. Set Designers in Conversation with scenographer Maureen Weiss. Present Official event details: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/experience-la-hospital-of-emotions