Category: wellness

Lumonics and the Summer Arts Program at Denver Health

Lumonics is excited to be part of the Summer Arts Program with the Public Health Institute at Denver Health. We are one of seven art workshops taking place weekly on Wednesdays in July and August. The program is initiated by Sedona Moreno-Castelan, in the Health Promotion Department at Public Health Institute at Denver Health. The Public …

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Therapeutic Potential of Lumonics

west wall of the Lumonics performance space (photo of Jennifer Hughes/303 Magazine)   Therapeutic Potential of Lumonics Through the years (over 5 decades now) people have commonly reported to Dorothy Tanner having profound spiritual and emotional experiences while contemplating the Lumonics art pieces. Some of these experiences have led to considerable symptom reduction in individuals with pre-established mood and …

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May Newsletter

Happy May, Everyone!Appreciating the longer days! Lumonics ImmersedEvery Saturday at 8 pm Hope you can see Sanctum (1992) by Mel Tanner, the “newest” addition at Lumonics Immersed. Teammate Marc Billard recently photographed Sanctum. So happy it is no longer in storage! Light artists Dorothy and Mel Tanner originated this multisensory experience in 1969. Although they …

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Art and Well-Being

The relationship between art and wellness has been important to Lumonics since its inception. Shanna Shelby, the Program Administrator at the McNichols Civic Center Building in Denver, when nominating Dorothy Tanner for the Denver Mayor’s Award for Innovation in the Arts in 2018, wrote about the increasing awareness of how art and mental health are …

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