Presenting Artists Program at the Danforth

Image: Elsa Dorfman, From the No Hair Day series

Sponsored by

The Foundation for Art and Healing explores the fundamental connections between art and the healing process through their Presenting Artists Program, which has sponsored programs with dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, as well as poets Robert Hass and Jane Hirschfield. The Foundation for Art and Healing’s sponsorship of the Danforth readings, talks and panel discussions related to exhibits on view through November 6, 2011 will enable exhibiting artists to share their experiences and visions related to the unique intersections of creativity and healing. Please join us.

Date: Sunday, September 18
Time: 1pm
Title: Willard Traub: Recovery
Description: Poetry Reading: Photographer Willard Traub will read poetry and prose poems he’s written to illuminate photographs in Recovery. Exhibition catalogs available, with a portion of sale proceeds to be donated to Be the Match Foundation, the national clearinghouse for bone marrow transplant donors and recipients.

Date: Wednesday, September 21
Time: 12:30pm
Title: Willard Traub: Recovery
Description:Artist Talk: Photographer Willard Traub will discuss his work

Date: Sunday, September 25
Time: 3pm
Title: Every Day: A Long Year
Description: Artist Talk: Photographer Karl Baden will discuss his work.

Date: Wednesday, September 28
Time: 12:30pm
Title: No Hair Day
Description: Artist Talk: Photographer Elsa Dorfman will discuss her work.

Date: Sunday, October 2
Time: 3pm
Title: No Hair Day
Description: Photographer Elsa Dorfman in conversation with filmmakers Bob Burns and Deborah Dorsey about their work on the film No Hair Day.

Date: Wednesday, October 5
Time: 2pm
Title: The Unconscious Voice: Wind Beneath My Wings and Site/ing Folio
Description: Artist Talk: Artist Helen Meyrowitz will discuss her work. Exhibition catalogs available, with a portion of sale proceeds to be donated to the Alzheimer's Foundation.

Date: Sunday, October 16
Time: 3pm
Title: Creative Expression, Health and Wellbeing
Description- Panel Discussion with Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH - Founder/President, Foundation for Art & Healing; Harvard School of Public Health; Patricia Maher, MS, RNCS - Nurse Practitioner, Health Care for the Homeless Program at The Cambridge Health Alliance; and Timothy Edgar, PhD. Graduate Program Director for the Health Communication Program, Emerson College. Health care professionals discuss the critical role art and creative expression play in the health and wellbeing of those living in today's fast paced world.

Date: Sunday, October 23
Time: 3pm
Title: Art and the Healing Process
Description: Panel Discussion with Sean Caulfield, Creative Director at ARTZ Artists for Alzheimer’s; Betsy Fitzgerald-Campbell, Alzheimer’s Association; and Helen Meyrowitz, former caregiver for Alzheimer’s patient. Exhibition catalogs available, with a portion of sale proceeds to be donated to the Alzheimer's Foundation.

Date: Sunday, November 6, 2011
Time: 3:30 pm
Title: ASB: Loss and Memory
Description: Artist Talk: Painter Jeffrey Bishop will speak on ASB: Memory and Loss, an exhibition of his work exploring loss of his father to Alzheimer's.

Click here for more information about artists and current exhibits related to art and healing.

For more information about the Foundation for Art and Healing, and their
Presenting Artists Program visit www.artandhealing.org.

Image: Dr. Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH. Foundation President and Founder of the Foundation for Art & Healing

Danforth

Museum of Art

123 Union Avenue, Framingham, MA 01702-8291 — 508.620.0050

Presenting Artists Program at the Danforth