Nationally recognized artist Ted Meyer believes in the power of art to heal both physical and emotional scars.
Through a collaboration between The Bonnie Wesorick Center for Health Care Transformation at Grand Valley State University and Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University (KCAD), Meyer will visit West Michigan to discuss his journey and share stories of the patients he has chronicled on canvas.
He will present a lecture at Grand Valley on March 28 in conjunction with an exhibit of his artwork at KCAD. Details of these events, which are free and open to the public, are:
—“Art and Healing,” an exhibition of KCAD students and Meyer runs now to April 8 at KCAD’s Helen Miller Kendall Gallery, 17 Fountain St. NW. More at www.kcad.
edu/events/healing-through-art/.
—“Scarred for Life: Healing Through Art,” the Distinguished Wesorick Lectureship, sponsored by the Wesorick Center, is March 28, from 1-2 p.m., at the DeVos Center, Loosemore Auditorium, on the GVSU Pew Grand Rapids Campus.
—Meyer will give an informal presentation on March 28 from 5-6 p.m. at the Mary Idema Pew Library on GVSU’s Allendale Campus. This event is sponsored by several Grand Valley departments and colleges.
“Scarred for Life: Monoprints of Human Scars” highlights through art the courage of people who have been in medical crises or accidents.
Evelyn Clingerman, executive director of the Wesorick Center, said research shows that engaging with art has positive health and spiritual benefits. “[W]e role-model and teach others how to create places where people can thrive, not simply survive, and how to apply a health care paradigm that is more than fixing a scar or a body part,” she says.
Meyer is artist-in-residence at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine. Learn more at www.tedmeyer.com.
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