Susan Rosano, MA

This is Susan, Master Teaching Artist, creator of    Family Story Kits, working on a mural with students   and families in Newtown, CT, with Expressive Arts Therapy.

Susan E. Rosano, MA, is a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant, Educator and Therapist with a Masters Degree from Wesleyan University. Over the course of her Expressive Arts Therapy career, Susan has worked with many different populations including terminally ill patients and their families in a hospice program, seniors in nursing homes, assisted living centers and communities of senior centers, children and adults with disabilities and special healthcare needs and grieving children, adults and their communities. In 2021, Susan was awarded a Fellowship from the National Arts Strategies New England Creative Community Fellows. Through this fellowship, she created "Family Story Kits." The goal of these kits is to transform negative ideas about aging in our culture by documenting the personal histories of senior citizens through visual arts and storytelling. The kits are also for anyone of any age to record personal histories using visual art with stories.

“There is a very deep vein of wisdom in our communities,” Rosano said. “My goal is to transform negative ideas about aging in our culture into positive beliefs about the strength, wisdom and contributions of senior citizens to their communities by documenting their personal histories through visual arts and storytelling, then exhibiting the results at a public venue.”