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Your prescription? Art! | Adriane Boag | TEDxCanberra

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Imagine if your next visit to the doctor resulted in a prescription to visit the art gallery.  Through her work with dementia patients at the National Gallery of Australia, Adrian Boag has learnt much about the potentially therapeutic role art can play in people's lives.  

Adri­ane trained as an artist with a major in paint­ing and sculp­ture from Sydney Col­lege of the Arts. She has worked in the visual arts for over twenty years and believes in the power of the arts to bene­fit us all

In 2006 Adri­ane was appoin­ted as a Pro­gram Coordin­ator at the National Gal­lery of Aus­tralia where she works on a range of cre­at­ive pro­grams that engage diverse audi­ences. These include the NGA Fam­ily Activ­ity Rooms and the annual National Sum­mer Art Schol­ar­ship, a pro­gram of nearly 20 years stand­ing.

Adri­ane rep­res­ents the Gal­lery as an advoc­ate for social inclu­sion and access for diverse audi­ences through audi­ence spe­cific tours includ­ing the inter­na­tion­ally acclaimed Art and Demen­tia Pro­gram.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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