Mask-Making Opportunities:
Join us for our Unmasking Brain Injury events to raise awareness in the community. Alliance staff and volunteers will be on hand with mask-making materials for anyone who would like to share their brain injury experience through art.
This March, we will be displaying masks that have been made over the past 10 years throughout the state and region. Stay tuned for updates!
Few people understand the personal impact brain injury can have. Its effects often are subtle and difficult to express. In March of 2016, the Minnesota Brain Injury Alliance began the Unmasking Brain Injury in Minnesota project - a statewide community-based art project that enlisted the participation of over a thousand individuals living with the effects of brain injury. Unmasking allowed individuals affected by brain injury to design masks that communicate their unique perspectives and altered outlooks. It gave survivors and caregivers a voice to illuminate their life with a brain injury; to show others that persons living with a disability due to brain injury are deserving of respect, compassion and the same opportunities afforded all citizens in their respective communities.