Training and Professional Development

• Engaging Arts & Minds: A Professional Development Course is an online training program for museum professionals, caregivers and dementia care professionals.
• Customized training for your museum or organization online or in person.

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Online Training

Engaging Arts & Minds: ​A Professional Development Program

For individual teaching artists, museum educators and dementia care professionals. 
Three cycles of this asynchronous class in 2025:
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Winter/Spring - February 19 to May 4 (FULL)
Summer - June 4 to August 15 (OPEN)
Fall - September 3 to December 3 (OPEN)
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Course fee: $350 per person

Register today

• Self-paced course with 3 live online sessions. 
• Learn through demonstration videos, recorded talks, readings and assessments across 4 modules.
• Mixed approach that honors various learning styles and respects the schedules of busy professionals. Expect to spend 10-20 hours to complete the course.
• Learn on Canvas, an Easy-to-use learning platform.​​

Learn to build uplifting creative, social and cognitive experiences for people with memory loss and their caregivers in museums, galleries, gardens, historic sites and online.

You will learn from the Arts & Minds team, professionals with extensive experience in museum programming and clinical care for people with memory loss and their caregivers. When you have finished all course components, you will receive a certificate of completion.

   My experience was great! The care, thought, and skill put into creating and facilitating this course was amazing. I learned so much in such a short period of time. I look forward to sharing what I learned with my peers. 
– Engaging Arts & Minds pilot participant.

Interested in training the team at your museum? See below. 
Have other questions? Contact us at [email protected].

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Professional Development

Customized training for your museum or organization, online or in person.

We work with museum staff, artists and memory care staff.
We provide in-depth training or short term workshops to help your team gain the skills to develop, carry out, or expand successful programs that engage people living with memory loss and their care partners in vibrant conversations and creative expression.

Arts & Minds has provided training to:

• National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
• National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
• The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
• New-York Historical Society, New York
• The Jewish Museum, New York
• The Long Island Museum
• The Rubin Museum, New York
• New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
• Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque
• Museums Serving Elders Professional Development Training Program, Taiwan

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Your museum can make a difference in public health. With an estimated 5.7 million Americans and 55 million people globally diagnosed with dementia, and that number projected to triple by 2050, there are currently too few museum programs to reach everyone who may benefit.
Whether yours is a major art museum or local historical site, your building and collections can support the growing number of people affected by memory loss in your community.
​While Arts & Minds is rooted in art museums, we also work with museums focused on history, culture, architecture and design, as well as botanical gardens and other living collections.

   All the participants benefited from your knowledge and inspiration. Your contribution will help museum people in Taiwan organize creative aging programs for elders with dementia. It was our great pleasure to have a chance to learn directly from you. Museum people in Taiwan profited enormously from your expertise.
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WanChen Liu, Ph.D.,
— Dean, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan 

   Thanks to your dedication and innovative teaching, the New Orleans Museum of Art has been able to realize Artful Minds at NOMA. We are thrilled to be able to offer this program in New Orleans.

Tracy Kennan​
​— Curator of Education, New Orleans Museum of Art

Please contact us for more information and to design a training program that meets the needs of your community. ​