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Dede Booth (she/her) is a Boston-based musician, artist, and licensed mental health clinician who explores the human condition through a creative process.
Biography
Dede Booth, born and raised in Arlington, is a drummer turned multi-instrumentalist who writes progressive rock music and has extensive session and touring experience. In addition to her music, she is a visual artist and a licensed mental health clinician at McLean Hospital in Belmont. The content of Dede’s artistic process combines elements of nature and the human condition and is inspired by environments, visiting places with unique, thought-provoking histories. The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia and the abandoned mental health facilities of The Fernald School in Waltham and the Medfield and Tewksbury State Hospitals are examples of such environments. Dede has integrated her careers in ways she could not have imagined, in which her artistic process is not only informed by personal and creative experiences, but more importantly by the work she pursues as a therapist. In conjunction to this, her clinical work has become informed by her creative process and visa versa. The result, conceptual art informed by nature and the human condition that explores the existential side of life. Often times reflective and melancholic, Dede’s process aims to offer hope and optimism. She resides in Watertown.
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