Remaking Art Spaces: Art Therapists as Architect-Curators (Ticket Required) (N/NY-SC2005)
Workshops (Requires a Ticket and Separate Registration)
Erin Partridge, PhD, ATR-BC
Erin Partridge, PhD, ATR-BC is an artist and board certified, registered art therapist. Her clinical experience includes work in community, pediatric, forensic, and geriatric settings. Erin has a PhD in art therapy from Notre Dame de Namur, and works as a professor and researcher in the elder care field.
Sadie Harmon, MFA
Sadie Harmon is Dementia-Inclusive Communities Director at Elder Care Alliance, developing programs to better understand arts access for people living with dementia. She was previously Director of the Performing Arts Institute at Stagebridge, a performing arts organization for older adults, and has an MFA from California College of the Arts.
Clinicians have been collaborating with museum educators and other cultural workers to increase access and deepen connections. The majority of the work thus far has involved working within existing programs; given the opportunity, how might we reimagine museums to better serve the communities with which we work?