UPCOMING FREE EVENT
Art, Nature, and Medicine: A Discussion with Michael DeAgro and Edward Neal
With Michael DeAgro and Dr. Edward Neal, MD
Art and the creative process are established upon basic processes of the natural world. In this 90 minute public discussion, Apricot Grove artist-in-residence Michael DeAgro and Apricot Grove Medical Director Dr. Edward Neal discuss the interrelationship between art, nature, and medicine, and investigate the important role art can play in medical practice.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Michael DeAgro is an interdisciplinary artist, psychotherapist, Chinese medical clinician, researcher, and educator. His artistic practice engages the ways in which art making and the aesthetics of transformation affect the relations between living bodies, forces of nature, and the regeneration of being. He earned a BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design, an MS in Counseling Psychology from Loyola University, a Post-Graduate Certificate in Equine-assisted Psychotherapy from University of Denver, and an MFA in Studio Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art.
Edward Neal, MD, MSOM, is trained in both Western and Chinese medicine. He has been involved in the study and teaching of Chinese medicine for over thirty years. He has consulted with the World Health Organization on matters of traditional East Asian medicine and has served as a visiting scholar at the University of San Diego Medical School. He is currently the medical director for the Apricot Grove Project, an organization that studies traditional medical knowledge to find innovative solutions to current global challenges.
