Artist to Artist Meeting: Giving Tuesday

Tuesday, December 2nd, 4 - 5:30 pm

Join Arts Alive and the Hannah Grimes Center and learn about Arts in Health initiatives and the potential role for artists and arts organizations in New Hampshire.

Catherine O’Brian, Arts in Health Coordinator for the NH State Council on the Arts, and Emily Mills, a pianist, and certified music practitioners (CMP) at Concord Hospital and in other health care settings will lead the discussion.

The presentation will focus on the NH State Council on the Arts’ programs and services, which include Arts in Health Grants - a juried Directory of Arts in Health Artists, a statewide listserv and consulting assistance. 

They will touch on six aspects of Arts and Health:

• patient care;
  
• healing environments;
  
• caring for caregivers;
  
• community well-being;
  
• education;
  
• plus, the growing field of Creative Aging.  

Emily Mills will share information about the Music for Healing and Transition (MHTP) certification program for musicians. The session will include visual images and some time for Q & A.

Essential take-aways for this session include how to qualify and sign up for the database and how to apply for funding.

Cost: free. Registration is appreciated.  

Catherine O’Brian is the Arts Education and Arts in Health Care Grants and Programs Coordinator for the NH State Council on the Arts. She works closely with teaching artists, schools and educators in order to bring arts learning and creative arts experiences into the lives of children, students of all ages, and under-served populations in New Hampshire.

Her work includes oversight of the NH Poetry Out Loud Program, and the juried Arts in Education and Arts in Health Artist Rosters. She has helped establish the NH Arts Learning Network and the NH Arts in Health Network/listserv.  

Catherine is a graduate of the UNH MA in writing program with a focus on poetry. She received the UNH Thomas Williams Graduate Poetry Award for her manuscript, The White Nightgown. Her poems have been published in Potato Eyes, Green Mountains Review, the Wisconsin Review and The Chariton Review.

Her previous work has included creative youth development at the Girls Clubs of Manchester and Nashua. She has also taught English as a Second Language to adult refugees and immigrants. To learn more visit: www.nh.gov/nharts.

Emily Mills, a Certified Music Practitioner (CMP), is a graduate of the Music for Healing and Transition Program. Her service is to provide live music at the bedside using a portable digital piano. She is currently employed at Concord Hospital and at Pheasant Wood Nursing Home in Peterborough.

Emily holds a Master's Degree in Special Education and taught elementary school children with special needs for twenty years. She also has been employed in the field of community inclusion and education of developmentally disabled adults. 

Emily volunteers weekly at the Castle Center Adult Day Care Center in Keene, where for the past twelve years she has been providing music and drama actives in which the elderly attendees can actively participate. She has studied piano most of her life, most recently with concert pianist, Vladimir Odinokikh.