Celebrating 40 years of offering creative arts therapies for children and adults, Evanston’s Institute for Therapy Through the Arts, a division of the Music Institute of Chicago, presented its inaugural Lamplighter Award for Arts in Healing to Carrie Ann Inaba, longtime “Dancing with the Stars” judge and advocate of dance/movement therapy.
Some 130 supporters attended the benefit awards event at Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston on June 9.
The Institute also honored Dr. Harriet Wadeson of Evanston, Author, educator and thought leader in creative arts therapy throughout the US, Europe and Asia, with its Marilyn Richman Legacy Award. And Institute clinical director, Ted Rubenstein of Skokie, was honored posthumously for his pioneering work.
The benefit raised $24,000 for Institute for Therapy Through the Arts’s integrative therapeutic services that aid more than 1600 individuals each year. See more: musicinst.org/institute-therapy-through-arts
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