WCSH6 covers opening of 'Your Brain on Art'
WCSH6 News covered the March 8th opening of "Your Brain on Art," a collaborative exhibition by the Biddeford arts organization Engine and the SWAG视频's Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences (CEN).
The story reported that the exhibit coincides with national Brain Awareness Week March 11-17 and will involve other activities and events.
As part of the exhibition, which opened at the Engine Gallery in Biddeford, SWAG视频 art professor Sarah Gorham is exhibiting work portraying her and her father鈥檚 journey following his diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor and his ultimate passing because of the cancer. Gorham discusses the experience in the WCSH video.
The exhibition also features award-winning artists who have been impacted by brain injury, trauma or chronic pain, including Jon Sarkin, Nancy Andrews, Karen Musick, and Jenn Shifflett.
Commenting on the exhibition, Edward Bilsky, Ph.D., associate provost for research and scholarship and CEN founding director, explains in the video that "the brain makes us human - so even seemingly small changes in the brain chemistry and the re-wiring of the brain after an injury can change fundamentally who we are."
Cathy Plourde, director of of SWAG视频's Add Verb Productions, Holly Haywood, SWAG视频 senior multi media specialist, and Mike Vickery, SWAG视频 simulation and technology specialist, also have works from the Portraits of Pain series, created for SWAG视频's upcoming InterProfessional Education Collaborative 2013 Spring Symposium, titled "The Science of Pain and The Art of Healing."