In collaboration with The Phillips Collection, Arts for the Aging presented: “Inclusion in Creative Aging: A Multisensory Approach” at the 2021 National Organization for Arts in Health Conference, The Art of Resilience.
This annual conference is a forum to exchange ideas, gain applicable knowledge, build connections, and energize developments for the future in the field of arts and health.
Learn more on the conference website.
Find more about the research behind music and health in a video we produced for the Aging and Integrative Pain Assessment and Management Initiative (AI-PAMI) at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville here.
Find research about the social impact of the arts at the website of Americans for the Arts, here.
Music and movement workshop at Downtown Clusters Geriatric Day Care Center in Washington, D.C. | Stephanie Williams Images
Presentation Artwork
Sam Gilliam (b. Tupelo, MS, 1933), Purple Antelope Space Squeeze, 1987, Diptych: Relief, etching, aquatint and collagraph on handmade paper with embossing, hand-painting and hand-painted collage, 41 ½ x 81 ⅝ in., The Phillips Collection, Bequest of Marion F. and Norman W. Goldin, 2017
Presenters
Arts for the Aging Staff and Teaching Artists
Music and movement workshop at Downtown Clusters Geriatric Day Care Center in Washington, D.C. | Stephanie Williams Images
The Phillips Collection
Donna Jonte, Manager of Art and Wellness and Family Programs
Donna Jonte, Manager of Art & Wellness and Family Programs at The Phillips Collection, works with all audiences, from PreK to older adults with dementia, developing and implementing programs that link art and wellness and combine viewing art, talking about art, and making art. Donna was named the D.C. Art Educator of the Year in 2019. Before becoming a museum educator, Donna wrote and edited for Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women and taught K-8 art for ten years at Friends Community School in College Park, Maryland. She has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in English Literature from Mills College and a Master’s in Teaching from George Mason University.
Donna Jonte, Photo by Travis Houze
