Atelier

Atelier Programs 

Join us to expand your interests, connect with others, identify new ways to increase engagement, change things up for your team, and have a broader appreciation of the world.

We are on the verge of a cultural transformation where the arts will become a recognized and approachable tool for enhancing productivity. 

Research is showing that visiting a museum exhibit reduces the stress hormone cortisol.  Playing music brings us back to a place when we didn’t have the same responsibilities that we have today and can enhance learning and cognition.  Sounds of nature have a therapeutic benefit.  Interactive exhibits blur the boundaries between art and viewers and put us directly in the scene to engage all of our senses. And learning to draw a mind map helps you focus on what’s most important.

Companies aiming for high-performing teams need to prioritize employee wellbeing to increase productivity, engagement, innovation, and overall team performance.  We believe the arts can help you reduce stress and have better conversations.

Mastery is the obsession of great artists and musicians, and it should be for business leaders as well. 

Well-rounded leaders need skills such as creativity, vision, curiosity and the ability to communicate.  Studying art and culture helps you think creatively and see multiple perspectives.   It makes you a more interesting person and can help you develop empathy and navigate ambiguity. Research shows that “appreciating or making art involves using many parts of our brain—from those that process our senses to those involved in emotion, memory, and cognition.  Neuroaesthetics – how our brains respond to aesthetic and artistic experiences – show that art is good for our physical and mental health,” according to Your Brain on Art, by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross.

Dr. Mark Hyman, #1 New York Times bestselling author says that neuroaesthetics is “an essential part of the human experience and an unexpected doorway to healing.”

We were pleased to have Aliki Braine speak on recognizing women artists between Impressionism to the Dawn of Modernity. Aliki is a lecturer and art historian with an impressive teaching background at The National Gallery, Christie’s, the Wallace Collection, Courtauld Gallery and The Arts Society, in addition to the University of Arts London.

Overview

Western European painting is not lacking in celebrated women artists; from Marcia in antiquity to Eva Gonzalès in the 19^th century, from Sofonisba Anguissola in the Renaissance to Michaelina Wautier in the 17^thcentury, artists who managed to break the norm of Western European society by making a name, and a living for themselves in a world of men. Yet, despite achieving fame and recognition in their own time and being celebrated for their talent and skill, they were subsequently erased from the mainstream narrative of art history. This set of 3 lectures reintroduced these artists, asking why and how their own paintings and self-portraits were already – in their own time – engaged with this fundamental problem of recognition.