Below are the best resources we could find on Life-Altering Injury and creative well being.
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Jon Sarkin was working as a chiropractor when he suffered a massive stroke. Afterwards, the 35-year-old became a volatile visual artist with a ferocious need to create, as his brain tried to make sense of the world at large.
There’s mounting evidence that brain damage has the power to unlock extraordinary creative talents. What can this teach us about how geniuses are made?
Thirty extraordinary artists who survived brain injuries, but found a new craft, are exhibiting their work in London this month, many for the first time.
Ballerina Pamela Swaney recovers from ACL tear with the help of her surgeon and her athletic trainer.
Chronic illness may feel like an impassible barrier, but it can become the doorway to a new and more creative existence. Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo, Michelangelo, and Georgia O’Keeffe are among the many artists whose physical disorders enhanced their creativity and transformed their lives.
[A] psychological drive toward perfection undoubtedly lies close behind many a musician’s physical problem.
Wayne demonstrates how—with his particular injury, what he calls a “break of fortune”—he can hold a fork and a paint brush, and he takes us through one of his paintings-in-progress.
A dancer who sustains a showstopping fracture onstage needn’t automatically hang up her tights.
Career-ending injuries aren’t exclusive to athletes—severe back, neck or arm injuries can also have a serious impact on musicians. There is a solution, though: a unique Canadian clinic helps make sure the world’s best musicians don’t have to play through the pain.
At Documenta 14, the 2017 edition of the touted art festival that takes place once every five years in Kassel, it was an artist heretofore unknown to much of the art world who stole the show: Lorenza Böttner, a German painter, dancer, and performance artist who, in the ’80s and ’90s, began...
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