Artist Talk with Anne Mondro

In conjunction with her exhibition, Tethered, artist Anne Mondro will host an artist talk on Friday, October 10, at 12:00 in the Upper Traylor Gallery. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and snacks will be available after the talk. No RSVP necessary.

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).