Anne Mondro: Tethered

Anne Mondro: Tethered is on view in the Upper Traylor Gallery from September 10 through October 17, 2025. Anne Mondro will give an artist talk on Friday, Oct. 10 at 12:00pm in the Upper Traylor Gallery in the Rogers-Traylor Art Building. For more information, visit our Events page.

Anne Mondro: Tethered is a series of intricately woven wire sculptures that reflect on the complex and often conflicting emotions associated with being a caregiver and care recipient simultaneously. Drawing from the artist’s personal experience as a mother and cancer survivor, Mondro processes the complex and often conflicting emotions with this experience through her making. Tethered seeks to portray these emotions as well as the impact that caring has in our healing.

Mondro is a studio artist, arts and health practitioner, and a professor in the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design. Her artwork has been shown nationally and internationally including exhibitions at Ceres Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Powerhouse Museum of Science and Design, and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art. Mondro’s work is in the permanent collections of the University of Michigan Hospital and the Detroit Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Her arts and health research focuses on designing and facilitating visual art programming for people living with dementia and their caregivers, with the intention of increasing social interaction, supporting learning and discovery, and building relationships. Mondro’s initiatives include Artful Approach™ and Retaining Identity: Creativity and Caregiving, programs for caregivers to learn how to engage people living with dementia in visual art activities. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant and the Family Caregiver Alliance’s 2015 Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiving Legacy Award in Creative Expression for her course Memory, Aging & Expressive Arts. Mondro has presented at national and international conferences on creative aging and dementia care including the Association for Medical Humanities (2021), the British Society of Gerontology (2018), 9th Annual International Arts and Health Conference (2017), Culture, Health & Wellbeing International Conference (2017), and the National Center for Creative Aging (2016).