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    • Featured Facilitator – Don Talbot

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    This quarter’s featured OMA facilitator is Don Talbot, a fine arts professor at Mount Aloysius College in Pennsylvania. A trained OMA facilitator since 2015, Talbot currently oversees OMA...
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    Making a Wreath using OMA Artwork

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    You can make beautiful wreaths out of unframed OMA artwork. You will need about 4-5 sheets of 9x12 painted watercolor paper with similar color palettes. ...
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    Improving Accessibility with Adapted Art Tools

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    Through its person-centered approach, Opening Minds through Art (OMA) plays to the strengths of its artists, who have unique needs as People with Dementia (PWD). In addition to changes in cognitive...
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    Opening Minds through Art is hiring!!

    Opening Minds through Art is hiring!!

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    Associate Director of Opening Minds through Art (OMA) Scripps Gerontology Center  The Scripps Gerontology Center specializes in research, education, and service that...
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    Leader in Aging-Carol Silver Elliott

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    Long time OMA advocate and 2020 LeadingAge Elect Chair of the Board, Carol Silver-Elliott has a strong vision to address ageism. We spoke with her recently to discuss her newly appointed role, her...
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    Five things you should know about art, dementia, and...

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    Watch five brief video clips of Q&A with OMA’s founder, Like Lokon, to find out five things that you should know about OMA and the latest developments in the OMA in medical school...
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