PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES
At the museum, cinema, care program or community setting, we build creative voice and creative practice. Believing an individual is always trying to communicate something, we look together for ways to construct meaning. Honoring what each person wishes to express. Close listening, presence and empathy are the foundation. We all carry an individual expressive instinct. With freedom to experiment and play, unexpected moments of discovery unfold. Watching film clips or sitting in front of paintings, exploring the labyrinth of
our lives, wonder, story and wellbeing are reclaimed. Personal identity and life history celebrated.
Materials Exploration & Experimentation Workshops
Interactive Workshops: Visual Art Conversations, Building Imagination Through Materials Exploration, Art Journaling, Life Writing, Painting, Poems, Legacy Books. Day by Day (8 yrs)
Cape Ann Museum CAM Connections
Meet Me at the Coolidge (ARTZ) Interactive Film Program for adults with memory loss & caregivers
It Takes A Village Network, Brookline, MA
Age & Dementia Friendly Community Building Initiatives
Photovoice Project Training & Toolkit: Cameras, Writing & Voice
Farnsworth Art Museum: Memory Gallery Tour Program & Museum Training For All Museum Staff
Museum of Fine Arts Second Saturdays: Museum Tour & Café Experience For Individuals with early stage memory loss and care partners
Meet Me Through My Art Intergenerational Exchange: deCordova Museum & Sculpture park
Wenham Museum Memory Cafe
I’m Still Here Painting Exhibition: Hearthstone Alzheimer's Care
Mass Council for Activity Professionals Staff Training
Exploring Creativity Through Innovative Ideas
Photovoice Exhibition: United Cerebral Palsy of MetroBoston
I’ve Got Your Memories: A Photomontage Installation:
Collaboration Between Charlestown & Lawrence: 2 Cities & 2 Schools
our lives, wonder, story and wellbeing are reclaimed. Personal identity and life history celebrated.
Materials Exploration & Experimentation Workshops
Interactive Workshops: Visual Art Conversations, Building Imagination Through Materials Exploration, Art Journaling, Life Writing, Painting, Poems, Legacy Books. Day by Day (8 yrs)
Cape Ann Museum CAM Connections
- CAM Connections 4-part integrative model program (3 year period) offering immersive museum experiences to local underserved population. Art conversations, museum tours, hands-on creative exploration sessions, art gallery celebrations for adults, persons w/ memory loss & care partners, Gloucester, MA (2012-2015)
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- Directed ARTZ Seven Museum Network in the Greater Boston area offering hundreds of specially designed interactive museum tours for persons with Alzheimer's, related dementias and care partners
Meet Me at the Coolidge (ARTZ) Interactive Film Program for adults with memory loss & caregivers
- Directed Meet Me at the Coolidge…and make memories, a 3 year interactive film program project to stimulate reminiscence and community solidarity at Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA
It Takes A Village Network, Brookline, MA
- Wrote grant to start initiative and co-led creation of first Village Program model: a network of art and culture programs in one geographic area offering weekly cultural engagement to persons with dementia, Town of Brookline & Brookline Community Foundation
Age & Dementia Friendly Community Building Initiatives
- Lead consultant & community educator. Spearheaded Age & Dementia Friendly Initiative for Town of Wenham. Collaborated with UMass Boston Gerontology Institute. Created Age Friendly Survey, wrote survey report, led focus group listening sessions and built Community Leadership Team
- Designed and Led Three Part Age & Dementia Friendly Workshop Series for Town of Nantucket
Photovoice Project Training & Toolkit: Cameras, Writing & Voice
- Developed curriculum to bring photovoice methodology to persons with memory loss.
- Hallkeen Management: Training & Photovoice Toolkit for Ten Memory Support Programs
- Hopkinton Center for The Arts & Compass Memory Support Program: Senior Living Residences Developed a first of its kind Photovoice experience for Compass Memory Support. Collaborated to showcase photographs and writing of adults with memory loss at Hopkinton Art Center.
- Trained eight Senior Living Residences Memory Care Program Directors in Photovoice methodology to implement a photovoice project and host an exhibit at each site.
Farnsworth Art Museum: Memory Gallery Tour Program & Museum Training For All Museum Staff
- Initiated First of its kind Museum tour program for individuals with early stage Alzheimer's and care partners at Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Museum of Fine Arts Second Saturdays: Museum Tour & Café Experience For Individuals with early stage memory loss and care partners
- Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Cafe for individuals living with early stage Alzheimer's and caregivers to come together for art looking and memory cafe gathering
Meet Me Through My Art Intergenerational Exchange: deCordova Museum & Sculpture park
- Intergenerational Exchange Project between elementary aged students and adults with Alzheimer's with final exhibit at deCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Wenham Museum Memory Cafe
- Memory Cafe program for individuals with memory challenges & caregivers, Wenham, MA
I’m Still Here Painting Exhibition: Hearthstone Alzheimer's Care
- Designed Montessori-inspired painting sessions and poetry writing for adults with Alzheimer's. Permanent exhibition of paintings in California. Hearthstone Alzheimer’s Care, MA
Mass Council for Activity Professionals Staff Training
Exploring Creativity Through Innovative Ideas
- Workshop at Massachusetts Council for Activity Professionals (MassCAP), Newton, MA
Photovoice Exhibition: United Cerebral Palsy of MetroBoston
- Facilitated photovoice: photographs and writing for college student living with cerebral palsy, United Cerebral Palsy of MetroBoston, Watertown, MA. Final Exhibition & Fundraising Event
I’ve Got Your Memories: A Photomontage Installation:
Collaboration Between Charlestown & Lawrence: 2 Cities & 2 Schools
- Connecting Communities through a Collaborative Learning Exchange between Lawrence High School photography students and Anchor Literacy Academy students at risk in Charlestown