SPARK! is a free, monthly art program for adults living with memory loss and their care partners. Each one-hour session is led by trained museum educators who create welcoming, interactive experiences through visual art. Rather than focusing on memory or reminiscence, SPARK! invites participants to engage in the present moment through observation, conversation, and creativity.SPARK! is free, but registration is required. Hosted at the Trout Museum of Art325 E College Ave, AppletonFirst Wednesdays | 1 PM Thank you to John and Susan McFadden, Fox Cares Foundation, and Neuroscience Group for sponsoring the SPARK! program. Art Educator: Michelle Sharp is an artist and adventurer born and raised in Tarkio, Missouri. Working primarily in bookmaking arts, she finds inspiration in the mundane, the acts of sharing and discovery, literature, and structured systems. Michelle received a BFA with honors from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2015; her major was Photography with minors in Writing and Science. Michelle currently lives in the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin. Michelle has shown work in various online exhibitions including Lenscratch and F-Stop Magazine, Milwaukee galleries such as Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, The Portrait Society Gallery, and Gallerie M. Her photographs have been featured in the 2014 Best of College and High School Photography publication by Photographer’s Forum, and various independent publications. Michelle’s zines and other book works can be found in collections at the University of Milwaukee Special Collections Library and The Athens Zine Bibliotheque. Most recently, her work has been exhibited at The Art Garage in Green Bay, Arts Connective in De Pere, and through community art projects with The Building for Kids Children’s Museum and the Waupaca Arts Hub.
