Belita Jones created this painting depicting the emotional toll of brain injuries with a fellow patient Rendy Kowal.
In honor of Brain Injury Awareness Month in March, the Recreation Therapy Service team with the Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Center held its second annual “Shedding Light on a Hidden Injury” art exhibition. At the event, the Guggenheim Pavilion displayed art created by stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients.
Among the works were masks depicting the emotional toll of TBI and collaborative paintings like the one that Belita Jones, at right, made with a fellow patient, Rendy Kowal, and a professional artist. The Center also collaborated with a virtual reality company, Jump Into the Light, on an activity that allowed participants to use the Google Tilt Brush to draw colorful 3-D shapes in a virtual landscape.