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.
