Afternoon of Wellness:
Connect, Explore and Experience – Linking Art and Music
Tuesday April 29, 2025, 4-6pm
Join us for a collaborative afternoon exploring the connections between our physical and mental health and the mediums of art and music. Explore the exhibitions Nature’s Impressions: The Modernist Landscape, The Art of Work: Painting Labor in Nineteenth Century Denmark and Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror, on a tour designed by museum educator Corinne Flax and music therapist Caroline Greco. Utilize your senses of sight and hearing while exploring the rhythms artists create in their work and taking inspiration to create your own music.
What to expect from this program: Participants will be asked to step outside their comfort zones and be open to new collaborative experiences. Using different pieces in the galleries as inspiration, participants will create their own rhythmic and emotive musical expressions. During the workshop component participants will explore how music helps them tap into their emotions and explore the different emotional impacts of lines and densities.
Caroline Greco: Program Director and Music Therapist of the Greens at Greenwich
Caroline Greco is a humanistic and strengths-based Board-Certified Music Therapist and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist who has a passion for serving older adults with memory impairment and individuals receiving hospice care. Caroline spent her undergraduate and graduate studies at SUNY New Paltz, receiving her Master of Science in Music Therapy. Through her clinical training and professional work, Caroline has provided individual and group music therapy services in pediatric oncology units, neonatal intensive care units, assisted living facilities and nursing homes for older adults with dementia, rehabilitation facilities for adults with traumatic and acquired brain injuries, and homecare for individuals receiving hospice services.
Caroline is the Program Director and Music Therapist at her current workplace, The Greens at Greenwich. Caroline provides recreative, receptive, and improvisational music experiences to enhance quality of life through social and emotional engagement, to provide opportunities for musical and verbal self-expression, to promote reminiscence and life review, to help cultivate resources for coping, and to offer support, comfort, and joy.
Caroline is a Board-Certified Music Therapist by the Certification Board for Music Therapists, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist by the New York State Education Department, Licensed Music Therapist by the Connecticut Department of Public Health, and Hospice & Palliative Care Music Therapist by The Center for Music Therapy in End-of-Life Care.
Corinne Flax: Manager of School and Community Partnerships at the Bruce Museum.
Working in education has always been a part of Corinne’s life, ever since she first worked as a camp counselor in Chester, Connecticut. Since those early days she has received an M.A. from Bank Street in Museum Education and pursued a career in museum education.
Corinne joined the Bruce Museum in 2015 as Manager of School and Community Partnerships, where she develops curriculum and community partnerships and works to create intersections between art and science. Corinne recently completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training as well as an additional 20-hour Kids and Teens Teacher Training and is excited to incorporate movement into the museum experience.
