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ROANOKE, Va. – A retirement community in Roanoke is using art to make pediatric patients smile. On Tuesday Friendship residents painted ceiling tiles that will be put in hospital rooms and in the corridor of different Carilion Clinic locations. Studies show art in a clinical setting can help reduce anxiety and improve blood pressure. “Our residents enjoy doing anything that serves the community, think it gives them a good feeling and they’re having fun too so that’s the important thing,” said , Friendship Retirement Community Activities Coordinator Pat Walters. We’re doing it by building so folks will be painting with their neighbors.”The Healing Ceiling Tiles project is part of a partnership between Carilion and the Taubman Museum of Art.