Photo by Matthew Breitbart | National Museum of Health and Medicine | 08.30.2016
Description: August 2016 Science Cafe. Caption: CAPT Walter M. Greenhalgh, USN, Director, National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICOE), Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (left), stands with Melissa Walker, Melissa Walker, NICoE Art Therapist and Healing Arts Program Coordinator, next to a temporary exhibition of art therapy masks on display at the......
Photo by Matthew Breitbart | National Museum of Health and Medicine | 08.30.2016
Description: August 2016 Science Cafe. Caption: A visitor examines a temporary exhibition of art therapy masks on display at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) in Silver Spring, Md. The masks are on loan to NMHM from the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. (Disclosure: This image has been......
Photo by Matthew Breitbart | National Museum of Health and Medicine | 08.30.2016
Description: August 2016 Science Cafe. Caption: Alan Hawk, historical collections manager (left)at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) in Silver Spring, Md., reviews a series of artifacts from the NMHM collections on temporary display during the August Medical Museum Science Café titled “Unmasking the Trauma of War: Art Therapy with Military......
Photo by Matthew Breitbart | National Museum of Health and Medicine | 08.30.2016
Description: August 2016 Science Cafe. Caption: Andrea Schierkolk, public programs manager (left) at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) in Silver Spring, Md., reviews a series of historic art works from the NMHM archives on temporary display during the August Medical Museum Science Café titled “Unmasking the Trauma of War: Art Therapy with......
Photo by Matthew Breitbart | National Museum of Health and Medicine | 08.30.2016
Description: August 2016 Science Cafe. Caption: Melissa Walker, Art Therapist and Healing Arts Program Coordinator at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), Walter Reed National Military Medical Center speaks during the August Medical Museum Science Café titled “Unmasking the Trauma of War: Art Therapy with Military Service Members.” The monthly......
Photo by Matthew Breitbart | National Museum of Health and Medicine | 08.30.2016
Description: August 2016 Science Cafe. Caption: Melissa Walker, Art Therapist and Healing Arts Program Coordinator at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, speaks during the August Medical Museum Science Café titled “Unmasking the Trauma of War: Art Therapy with Military Service Members.” The monthly......
Photo by Matthew Breitbart | National Museum of Health and Medicine | 08.05.2016
Caption: “An Army flight medic. The mask represents our country shedding tears for our military on one side, and our military shedding tears for our country on the other side. Quotes on the military side (which also symbolizes death via the skull) read, “Shed no more tears, your medic will shed them for you,” and “I have destroyed my life and myself so that others may live.””......
