Art and Wellness

ARTZ Philadelphia and Woodmere offer informal programs for visitors with dementia and their care partners through interactions with artworks and opportunities for self-expression. Groups are limited in size to 6-8 visitors with dementia plus their care partners to ensure an intimate and comfortable experience for everyone. Contact Dr. Shifrin at shifrin@artzphilly.org or 610-721-1606 to pre-register for a program.
The programs are facilitated by ARTZ Philadelphia program facilitator, Justine Stehle and director Dr. Susan Shifrin, an art historian, independent curator, and arts accessibility advocate. Learn more about ARTZ Philadelphia at artzphilly.org.
ARTZ Connect
ARTZ Connect offers online, interactive programs with art for people with dementia and their care partners. Enjoy the program from the comfort of your home with the benefit of being able to look closely at works of art together, and see details that are hard to see in a gallery space.
Pre-registration is required.
Friday, July 11 | 11 am (Online, Via Zoom)
ARTZ@The Museum
ARTZ Philadelphia and Woodmere offer informal programs for visitors with dementia and their care partners through interactions with artworks and opportunities for self-expression. Groups are limited in size to 12 visitors with dementia and their care partners to ensure an intimate and comfortable experience for everyone.
Pre-registration is required.
Tuesday, July 22 | 11 am
Café for Care Partners
ARTZ Philadelphia launched this series of programs especially for the care partners of people living with dementia (usually family members but sometimes close friends playing the same role) to provide engaging, stimulating experiences and relief from the daily grind. Admission is free with RSVP. Please make your reservation(s) as early as possible. Reservations are first come, first served.
Café for Care Partners: Meet and Greet Pop Up at Woodmere
Thursday, July 10 | 4:30 pm
FREE, Registration required
Join ARTZ Philadelphia staff at Woodmere for a “meet and greet” to introduce care partners to Woodmere’s outdoor classroom, a beautiful open air space in the midst of Woodmere’s landscaped campus. We welcome new and returning ARTZ care partners to spend some relaxed, informal time together over a glass of wine (or bring a beverage of your choice) with light snacks.
ARTZ Notes
ARTZ Notes invites you to come together with other participants to listen to music, make your own, and engage with each other and the performers. ARTZ Notes offers music and experiences as diverse as our participants. We are exploring different options including facilitating live performances paired with conversations, interactive improvisation and sing-alongs, and conversations and movement around pre-recorded music of all genres.
ARTZ Notes
with ARTZ Notes curator and lead facilitator Keisha Hutchins Hirlinger and Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist and musician MB Singley
Saturday, July 12 | 11 am
FREE, registration required
Join ARTZ Notes curator and lead facilitator Keisha Hutchins Hirlinger and Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist and musician MB Singley (an ARTZ Notes favorite!) for a very special in-person ARTZ Notes program at Woodmere.
Summer is here and the time is always right for dancing in the streets! This workshop is all about having fun in the sun while singing along to some of your favorite tunes. We’ll take a stroll on the boardwalk, and get some ice cream…or maybe dip our toes in the sand after we do a little surfing! All you need for this workshop is a willingness to have a good time, so grab your sunglasses and I’ll meet you on the sunny side of the street!
MB explores the human condition through story, song and audience engagement. She has self-produced three albums of original music and she can be heard on John Legend’s Grammy-nominated debut album, Get Lifted. In 2020, MB premiered her one-woman show about growing up as a black woman in the United States, Turn, at the Kimmel Center.
MB explores the human condition through story, song and audience engagement. She has self-produced three albums of original music and she can be heard on John Legend’s Grammy-nominated debut album, Get Lifted. In 2020, MB premiered her one-woman show about growing up as a black woman in the United States, Turn, at the Kimmel Center.