Engaging Arts & Minds: Foundations – an online training course to learn the Arts & Minds approach to art programming for people with dementia and their care partners 

Feb 19, 2025—May 04, 2025

Location

P.O. Box 250073 Columbia University Station New York, NY 10025 United States

Cost 350

Event Contact Hollie Ecker | Email

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Arts & Minds is pleased to announce Engaging Arts & Minds: Foundations, a training course on museum programming for people with dementia and their care partners. We invite museum professionals, caregivers and dementia care professionals to join this exciting new online course.

Engaging Arts & Minds: Foundations includes:
– Introduction to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias — a slide
talk by Columbia University Neurologist, James M. Noble MD;
– Readings, exercises, and discussion posts focusing on the needs of
people living with dementia and their caregivers;
– Explore Arts & Minds approach to in-the-moment conversations
about art (adaptable for science, history and living collections);
– Learn our unique approach to creative and accessible art making;
– Receive support in planning and implementing your cultural program;
– Learn to build uplifting creative, social and cognitive experiences for
people with memory loss.

Registration for the Winter 2025 cohort is now open. This asynchronous course will run on the Canvas online platform from February 19th to May 4th. There will be 3 one hour optional live online sessions offered as a way to connect with the other members of this learning community. To register now, follow this link: https://giving.artsandminds.org/secure/cause_pdetails/MjI3MzA1

For more information about training for teams and individuals visit “Training” on the Arts & Minds website: https://www.artsandminds.org/training.html

Accessibility Information
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