Memory Café: Vincent Van Gogh: Expression Through Landscape

This program is exclusively for people with memory problems, including Alzheimer’s disease, and their partners/families. Our calendar of events for the upcoming semester:

• 9/21/21: Elevate your Salad with Matt Budenstein of Liberty Kitchen
• 10/8/21: Penn Museum, Destination North America
• 11/12/21: Vincent Van Gogh: Expression Through Landscape
• 12/10/21: Mütter Museum, Bone Detectives

Click here to register for this class. 

If you would like to create your own landscape below are suggested materials:

Drawing 

·       Several sheets of paper

·       Pencil, pen, color pencils, marker, or charcoal

Painting

·       Canvas or Primed Board (size around 12”’x16” or smaller is fine)   

·       Acrylic Paint 

o   A beginner set of paint is good 

o   Or individual tubes of paint

§  Cadmium Red Medium Hue

§  Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue

§  French Ultramarine 

§  Light Blue or Cerulean Blue

§  Yellow Ochre

§  Burnt Sienna

§  Emerald or Viridian Green 

§  Ivory Black 

§  Titanium White 

§  Matte or Gloss Medium 

·       Brushes 

o   4,6 Bright or Filbert brush 

o   4 Round

·       Rags

·       Water 

This class/program is free to patients/families seen at the Penn Memory Center and made possible from the philanthropic Caring Difference fund. Please consider making a donation so that we are able to continue offering support programs such as this.

If you are not affiliated with the Penn Memory Center, you are welcome to join this class/program if you make a donation of any amount to the Caring Difference fund.

Click here to donate. 

Questions or concerns? Feel free to reach out to either Meg Kalafsky (megan.kalafsky@pennmedicine.upenn.edu or 267-624-4282) or Leah Fein (Leah.Fein@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu or 267-908-4403)