Puzzles of the Brain: An Artist’s Journey through Amnesia
The collaborative exhibit between the Walters Art Museum and the JHU Cognitive Science department, Puzzles of the Brain: An Artist’s Journey through Amnesia, has opened! The exhibit runs through Dec. 11; the exhibit webpage is here. The show tells the story of Lonni Sue Johnson, an accomplished artist who suffered severe brain damage to the hippocampus and left temporal lobe and consequent amnesia, and the recovery art she produced during intensive art therapy.
On October 2, from 2:00-3:30pm. there will be a public program at the Walters, featuring a talk on the on-going science of this project (given by Mike McCloskey) and an interview by Gary Vikan (Director of the Museum) with the artist’s mother, Margaret Kennard Johnson (an artist herself who directed the therapy). Please join us!
More about the exhibit
See the JHU produced video featuring faculty members Barbara Landau and Mike McCloskey, and listen to them explain the scientific background. The JHU press release.
Press coverage
- New York Times article: A Few Strokes of the Past in an Artist Who Lost Her Memory
- Washington Post article: A ‘self’ portrait of an artist with memory loss
- Baltimore Sun article: Walters exhibit examines puzzles of artist’s brain after injury
