An experiential discussion on the beautiful and healing essence of making art with Meghan Caughey

Name: An experiential discussion on the beautiful and healing essence of making art with Meghan Caughey
Start: 2024-06-23T14:00:00-07:00
Location: 532 NW 12th Ave, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97209

Schedule

Sun Jun 23 2024 at 02:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

532 NW 12th Ave, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97209 | Portland, OR

This event with Meghan Caughey will include readings from her award winning book Mud Flower: Surviving Schizophrenia and Suicide Through Art and a discussion on mental health and art.
Artworks by Meghan will also be on exhibit.
Award winning Mud Flower: Surviving Schizophrenia and Suicide Through Art shows the perspective of a person who has a serious mental illness, who survives extreme treatments, who both family and the health system have given up on, but who defies all expectations and common beliefs of what is possible.
Along the way, the author describes the role of art in her survival, grappling with how the life force can be either nurtured or destroyed by elements in our environment, such as nature, beauty, and art versus dehumanization and coercion.
Book can be purchased online: click here
About the Author
Meghan Jisho McDonald Caughey, M.F.A., born in Atlanta, Georgia, is an artist, musician, poet, and mental health activist. She has taught in art schools and universities in California and Oregon. Her drawings and paintings are exhibited and published nationally. A respected advocate in mental health reform, her essays have been published in medical journals. She is a keynote speaker and presenter at numerous mental health conferences. As a cellist, she previously performed with symphony orchestras. She was the senior director of peer-delivered services at a health non-profit in Portland, Oregon and has designed innovative behavioral health training curricula and programs. She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of the Psychiatry Department at Oregon Health and Science University and working on a grant about suicide prevention with the Icahn Medical School in New York. She lives in Eugene, OR with her service dog (in training) Bella.