When art is the only medicine | Anne Basting | TEDxUWMilwaukee

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Artist and Scholar Anne Basting posits that art is the soft tissue that brings people into relationship, even in extreme situations like Alzheimer's. Forgetting memory and opening imagination can in turn open worlds in which people can find and connect with each other - easing isolation and drawing us into meaningful and healing relationship.

Educator, scholar and artist, Anne Basting's work focuses on the potential for the arts and humanities to improve our quality of life as communities and individuals. Basting believes that arts, in some situations, are the only form of medicine we have.

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