Mary Putera
Mary Putera is an organizational consultant and Associate Professor in the Expressive Arts Department at Lesley University in Boston, MA. She trusts sensory-centered artmaking as an inherent human capacity – a practice of wisdom and relational interdependence with all life. Facilitating and participating in community artmaking is one of her greatest joys. Mary’s work seeks the places where Beauty is flourishing, and the invitations Beauty extends to us—to form life with Them, so that all beings may flourish together. https://theartofintegrity.org/
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Journal Article
Mary Putera offers the rare privilege of witnessing a painting’s emergence—moving from silence and devastation toward light and form. Each stage reveals art as a way of metabolizing grief and rediscovering Beauty, inviting us to presence pain and co-create the conditions for renewal.