After years of inpatient treatment in a locked facility, psychiatric patients who are preparing to transition to lower-security residential settings often benefit from bridging that continuum of care with supervised community excursions. In this study, facilitators and patients collaborated to identify and engage in a variety of arts-related experiences and settings in nearby cities and nature areas as a medium through which to help reconnect patients in a state psychiatric hospital with their surrounding community. Preliminary findings from data gathered included increased positive affect and quality of life, decreased feelings of isolation and institutionalization, more positive regard for treatment, and maintained or improved pace of patient progress toward discharge and community reintegration. Supervised therapeutic exposure to arts in the community appears to be an indicated clinical option to help motivate and prepare select psychiatric inpatients for community reintegration. As this is an information-sharing article regarding research-informed practice rather than the result of a research project, formal research is recommended as a next step to establish external validity and further the field’s knowledge of this topic.