TOPIC

Join the Subject Specialist Network and explore a wide range of collections-focused art, health and wellbeing programs from local, regional and national museums and galleries.

This conference will facilitate learning about the research and evidence that underpins much of this work and discuss issues and challenges arising from it.

Also, they’re collaborating with two other professional networks on this conference, the British Art Network, and the Understanding British Portraits Network, so it’s going to be a blast.

AGENDA

Thursday 4 June 2020

• 13:00 - 18:00: Tate Britain Opening Keynote
• 19:30 - 21:00: National Gallery Drinks Reception and Private View of Artemisia

Friday 5 June 2020

• 08:30 - 12:30: National Portrait Gallery Breakfast and Private View of Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things
• 12:30 - 16:30: National Gallery Lunch Closing Keynote

SPEAKERS

• Esme Ward, Director, Manchester Museum
• Alexandra Coulter, Director, Arts & Health South West
• Claire Booth, Collaborative Doctoral Award Student, University of Huddersfield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park
• Madi Boyd, Visual Artist; Nye Parry, Composer; Polly Dalton, Director, Attention Lab, Royal Holloway University; and Harriet O'Neil, Assistant Director (Humanities and Social Sciences), British School at Rome
• Laurie Britton Newell, Senior Curator and George Vasey, Curator, Wellcome Collection
• Zoe Brown, Outreach Officer and Michael McHugh, Network Programme Lead, Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums
• Louise Campion, Pathway to Wellbeing Programme Manager & Community Engagement Officer, Holburne Museum
• Maurice Davies, Museums Consultant
• Jenny Gaschke, Curator of Fine Art pre-1900, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and Jackie Winchester, Senior Officer - Participation, Bristol Culture & Creative Industries
• Emma Hollamby, Arts and Dementia Programme Manager, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
• Kim Mawhinney, Senior Curator of Art, National Museums Northern Ireland
• Linda Miller, General Practitioner and PhD Candidate, Medical Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
• Jen Ridding, Head of Public Engagement, Barber Institute of Fine Arts; Jane Nicol, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, University of Birmingham; and Mayrum Nessa and Hannah Noakes, 3rd Year Nursing Students, University of Birmingham
• Catsou Roberts, Director, Vital Arts, Barts Health NHS Trust
• Janet Smyth, Deputy Head of Learning & Engagement (Health & Wellbeing), National Galleries of Scotland and Ruthanne Baxter, Museum Services Manager, University of Edinburgh
• Miranda Stearn, Head of Learning, Fitzwilliam Museum‍
• Lucy Zacaria, Head of Arts and Delphine Allier, Curator, Imperial Health Charity, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust