Engaging Arts & Minds: Foundations

Arts & Minds is pleased to announce Engaging Arts & Minds: Foundations, a training course on museum programming for people with dementia and their care partners. Whether you are starting a new program or looking for a refresher, museum professionals, teaching artists, caregivers and dementia care professionals are invited to join this exciting new 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 Fall 2025 cohort is now open. The asynchronous course will run from September 10th to December 3rd. There will be 3 one hour optional live online sessions offered as a way to connect with other members of our learning community.  Attached below is a simplified syllabus to give you some idea of what the course experience will entail. 

To register now, follow this link. 

For more information about training for teams and individuals visit “Training” on the Arts & Minds website.