Carolyn Halpin-Healy, Executive Director

MA History of Art, Museum Educator, Adult Learning Specialist

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With over 25 years’ experience as a museum educator, Carolyn Halpin-Healy founded Arts & Minds in 2010, with neurologist James M. Noble, MD to provide museum-based experiences for people with dementia and their care partners at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Partner organizations now include ten NYC museums and the Smithsonian Institution. Carolyn teaches at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she is a member of the Access Team. She has trained museum staff and volunteers from the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia to conduct person-centered art dialogue and art making, which keeps individuals with Alzheimer’s disease in touch with themselves – cognitively, socially, emotionally, and artistically. Carolyn holds a BA in Art and Art History from Stony Brook University, an MA in the History of Art from Williams College, and a Graduate Certificate in Adult Learning from the City University of New York. She publishes in peer-reviewed journals and presents regularly at conferences.

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