Tess Almendarez Lojacono Email and Phone Number

Vision: A life of purpose, meaning, and connection for every human being.Mission: To create an evolved sense of wellbeing for seniors, children with challenges, and typically isolated populations by fostering the ageless creative spirit within.Inspired by the global health crisis, FAM continues to offer opportunities for creativity through packaged ART2GO lessons with everything included, for 1 - 20 people; virtual Music Therapy, Art Therapy and Dance & Movement sessions; and more. Please contact me for more info and visit the website.Stay safe--stay well--stay positive! Special 10 Year Anniversary note: Feb. 2017: While it's true that I founded Fine Art Miracles, Inc. ten years ago this February, FAM's tremendous growth is due to the wonderfully committed people, with whom it is my honor to work. I am grateful to all the funders, the administrators, the lovely clients and most especially, to the talented and compassionate FAM Team of staff, teachers and therapists!Tess Almendarez Lojacono is the President and CEO of Fine Art Miracles, Inc. as well as a published author. Her company, Fine Art Miracles, Inc., offers the cognitive, physical and emotional benefits of fine art lessons, art & music therapy and social robot enhanced learning, to people with various needs. Headquartered in the vibrant city of Pittsburgh, FAM currently serves 205 client facilities there, 75 client facilities in Buffalo & 30 client facilities in Rochester, NY, and 12 facilities in Harrisburg and Erie, PA. In 2013 FAM partnered with the Carnegie Mellon University to offer a special Art & Social Robot Therapy program for children on the autism spectrum. Since that time, Social Robot experiences have been one of FAM's offerings for both challenged and neuro-typical children. FAM now incorporates robots into any subject matter, creating: Social Robot Enhanced Learning. FAM also now offers a Multi-Sensory Session for people with Alzheimer's and advanced dementia.For more information please visit their website: www.fineartmiracles.com and their facebook page: facebook.com/fineartmiracles.In addition to her work with FAM, Tess is a writer. Her poems and stories have won awards with the Writer's Digest Annual Writing contests and her work has appeared in print and online and her first novel, Milagros, was published in February 2011, by Laughing Cactus Press. Her second novel: The Book of Zane, was released on the Fourth of July, 2013, by Sunbury Press.