Featured in Stamps School of Art and Design article

I was recently featured in an article shared by the University of Michigan's art school, Stamps School of Art and Design. This past winter, in my last semester as an undergrad, I took an experiential course titled, "Memory, Aging, and Expressive Arts". Together with my fellow art students, we were partnered with older adults with dementia at U-M Geriatrics' Silver Club. Every Thursday morning. my class would take the Stamps bus up the road to the Silver Club and create artwork with our partner. After a semester's worth of work, we had a gallery showing for our class at the U-M Botanical Gardens. The whole experience, working with my partner Jan*, learning about her history and skill set (she taught us cross-stitch!) was a valuable experience for myself as an artist, psychology student, and a future art therapist. As Anne mentions in the article, the most valuable advice I learned from this experience was, "...when you meet one person with memory loss, you’ve met one person,”.

Learn more about the class and view our collaborative piece "Freedom Is Not Free" in the link below!

http://stamps.umich.edu/creative-work/stories/memory-aging-art

*Names have been changed to protect privacy