Art and Wellness Programs

The Currier connects art with people. The museum creates impactful programs that serve those in greatest need in our community today. We believe art can inspire, bring people together, and create a better, more inclusive society.

For more information on these programs, email Corie Lyford at clyford@currier.org.

• Expressions Through Art
  • Expressions Through Art provides a joyful and creative experience for people affected by cancer, in partnership with Elliot Hospital’s Solinsky Center for Cancer Care
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  • Staff from the Currier and the Elliot facilitate discussions about art in our galleries and guide art-making. The program uses art as a conduit for respite and connection. Light refreshments will be provided. No art experience necessary.
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  • This new wellness program will be held on the second Thursday of each month beginning in January 2023 from 4 to 5:30 pm.

• Art of Hope
  • Art of Hope program provides art and mental health support for people whose family members suffer from substance-use disorder.
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  • Art of Hope engages participants in a welcoming, open-hearted setting through guided conversation in the galleries and a special art activity, using art as a conduit for generating understanding, awareness, and healing. Free and open to the public, Art of Hope requires no previous art experience.
• Memory Café
  • The Currier Memory Café is a joyful and creative social experience for people with memory loss, and their caregivers.
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  • The program is held from 1 – 2 pm on the first Wednesday of each month. Advanced registration is not required. Click here to learn more.
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    Memory Café session in the American galleries

• Art for Vets
  • Art for Vets is an art-focused program that offers unique and FREE opportunities for veterans, active service members, and their families to come together and experience the benefits of the creative experience.
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  • For more information about our Art for Vets programs please email artforvets@currier.org or call 603.518.4946
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  • Art for Vets is generously sponsored by Swim with a Mission

     
       

• Making Art Accessible
  • The Currier Museum has worked with teens and adults with developmental disabilities for over a decade. Our signature program, Making Art Accessible is a multimedia studio art class designed for these deserving individuals. Working in a lively and fun studio setting, students make works of art inspired by the Currier’s collections and visit the Currier’s galleries.
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  • The goal of Making Art Accessible is to foster a sense of well-being in each student and to create a community of mutually supportive students who enjoy making art together. 
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  • The Currier regularly holds Making Art Accessible classes, a studio class that is open to the public. For more information or to register for Making Art Accessible please email CLyford@currier.org.  
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  • In addition, the Currier hosts programs focused on accessibility with several local organizations including the Moore Center, Siddharth Services, and the PLUS Company of Nashua. 
  • This program is sponsored by Fiduciary Trust.
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• Programming for Immigrant and Refugee Children
  • The Currier Museum works with many organizations who resettle and support immigrant and refugee families in Manchester.
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  • We provide after-school art instruction for children of these families during the school year and extend their learning into vacation weeks by offering free enrollment in our Vacation Art Camps. During our Art Camps the children are with us for 30 hours of instruction each week and are provided free breakfast and lunch each day.
  • This program is sponsored by Rise Private Wealth Management, AmeriHealth Caritas New Hampshire, Pamela Diamantis and Morey Goodman. 
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• Creative Connections for Teens at the Currier

  • Creative Connections for Teens supports students suffering with anxieties related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and related societal harms that adversely impact our most vulnerable populations.  Each session provides students opportunities to connect through art-viewing, artmaking, and social time. Sessions are led by Currier educators and curators with the support of a school counselor, who emphasize personal creative development, respite, relationship building, and mindful awareness. 

  • Creative Connections for Teens is supported in part by a grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

  • For more information or to register, contact Corie Lyford at CLyford@currier.org
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Thank you to our many funders who make this programming possible, including: Northeast Delta Dental, People’s United Bank, Rise Private Wealth Management, Fiduciary Trust, The Brown Foundation of Houston, Inc., New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Heineman Foundation, Dorson Family Fund, Chris Dwyer and Michael Huxtable in honor of Peg Gaillard’s service to the Currier, and Private Funders.
   

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