Art Therapy

We talk with Cape Coral artist Lesley Morrow about her distinctive contemporary portraiture paintings of women that explore themes of the feminine experience ahead of her solo exhibition opening in January at the Arts for ACT Gallery in Fort Myers.

Art therapy can serve as an effective form of treatment for people living with dementia. We’ll explore an art therapy program that utilizes museum tours, but has since gone virtual amid the ongoing pandemic.The Arts in MIND program was created by Angel Duncan, M.A.-MFT, ATR, in collaboration with Yale University’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit and the Yale University Art Gallery. The program targets younger patients with early onset dementia as well as those in the early stages of dementia. This is a demographic that’s largely underserved.

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