Welcome to VSA Alabama!
VSA Alabama is a statewide, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to serving children and adults with disabilities and chronic illnesses through the arts. We offer visual arts, drama, creative writing, drumming and rhythm, creative movement, music therapy, and art therapy programming. Annually, VSA Alabama serves over 3,000 people with disabilities and chronic illnesses through our programming in community, educational, and healthcare settings across Alabama.
VSA Alabama was founded in 1984 as an affiliate of VSA, an international nonprofit organization serving millions of people every year through a nationwide network of affiliates and in 51 countries worldwide. VSA was founded in 1974 by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith as an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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Take a Walk in My Shoes
In Fall 2010, VSA Alabama brought together local high school students from Ramsay High School and Alabama School of Fine Arts with older adults attending McCoy Adult Day Care and The South Highland Center (day care facilities specializing in serving seniors with Alzheimer’s, dementia and other memory disorders) to engage in dialogue and create collaborative art. Using shoes and canes as their canvas, they began to alter these objects to represent the life journey of each other.
The following short documentary by David Brower captures the students and older adults as they engage in the creative process and highlights some of their dialogue. We hope this will inspire more intergenerational exchange and creative collaboration – art allows us to meet on common ground and engage in meaningful relationship building regardless of age, color or disability.
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