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This document summarizes an art project between college art students and assisted living residents. The students designed a project called "Residential Self-Portraits" where they took photos of the residents and projected them onto paper for the residents to trace and color. The goal was for the residents to create self-portraits in a way that was accessible given physical limitations. Both the students and residents found the project mutually beneficial in providing social interaction and inspiration. The document outlines the project preparation, implementation, challenges, and benefits of using art to build connections between generations.
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- 1. Julie Jack, M.F.A. Watching in Wonder : Observing Art Practice in Servant Leadership
- 4. College art students and Assisted Living residents impact each other through art practice. “Residential Self-Portraits” - an art project that revealed unforeseen symbiotic relationships
- 7. Practical experience in design, advertising, teaching, not-for-profit, manufacturing, and other commercial applications. In settings both on and off campus, the student will become familiar with the use of art to create a product or provide a service.
- 8. The community partner, Morning Pointe, asked for one-on-one art projects with residents through the Center for Servant Leadership. We chose this from a variety of community requests.
- 9. Student designed project • “…allows students to become creators of knowledge.” Sharon R. Gray and Mark A. Graham, Journal of Museum Education
- 10. Morning Pointe Residents Art Survey I have restricted hand movement (arthritis) I am interested in assistance with group art projects I am interested in one-on-one art instruction I am interested in seeing/ hearing about famous artists (projection) I am interested in showing my art at an exhibit on family night
- 12. Project Preparation Students • Decided on Self-Portraits and acquired head shots of residents • Set up schedule, including art exhibit on family night
- 14. Christie Nuell “Visiting my mother in the nursing home the other evening, it occurred to me how similar it is to a college dorm. Everyone customizes their own room with photos, posters, china ornaments, according to their age and tastes. At one point there was EXTREMELY loud middle eastern rock music blasting from one of the rooms, but since so many people are deaf, nobody complained! Actually kind of nice.”
- 15. Similarities College Students • The sense of displacement from home. • the need to nurture and be nurtured. “The process of (mutual) nurturing helps to promote (both) individual’s development.” E. H. Able Jr. Assisted Living Residents
- 16. The final idea was labor intensive for the students, but they thought this was necessary for the overall impact.
- 19. Art can be a powerful source of community renewal.
- 20. Art Practicum, S.L. Assessment Rubric
- 21. Difficult measuring impact • Although the student’s gain is not always measurable, fine art instruction can ignite an undiscovered passion, inspire new ideas or temporarily reveal a forgotten memory • Although the resident’s gain is not always measurable, fine art instruction can ignite an undiscovered passion, inspire new ideas or temporarily reveal a forgotten memory.
- 23. Table(of(Contents( Acknowledgements(………………………………………(1( Introduction( ! Part(One:(Projects(by(Subject( 1.!!Portraiture…………………………………………! A. Self!Portraits……………………………………..! B. Friend!Portraits…………………………………! C. Memory!Portraits………………………………! D. Other!Portraits………………………………….! 2.!!Landscape……………………………………………! ((((( A.!Plein!Air!Landscape…………………………..! !!!! B.!Fauve!type!Landscape……………………….! !!!!! C.!Memory!Landscape……………………………! !!!! D.!Other!Landscape……………………………….! 3.(Still!life…………………………………………………! (( A.!Pre@arrangement…………………………….! ! B.!Personal!objects……………………………..! ! C.!Memory!objects………………………………! ! D.!Other!objects………………………………….! ( ( Part(Two:(Projects(by(Material(
- 24. Residential Self Portraits Using a projector (overhead w/ transparency or computer projector or art tracer), project each residents black and white image onto each archival paper (Stonehenge, white is a good, inexpensive choice suitable for a variety of applications). Trace outlines of head, shoulders, interesting patterns on clothing and background. Trace facial features in a way that they can color” them in. Be sure to put residents name prominently on back of paper.
- 25. Using a large straight edge, tear your paper with projected image in half vertically and in thirds horizontally.
- 27. • “Assisted Living census will be increasingly comprised of people with memory impairments such as dementia.” Alyssa Gerace, ALFA Update
- 28. “You do it for the moment” Sarah MacPherson, Michael Bird, Katrina Anderson, Terri Davis and Annaliese Blair Aging & Mental Health, September 2009
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- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 16:46) -----I did an about-face in my view of service learning. As long as I’ve been at TWC, people from the community would call and ask if the art department would be willing to paint murals, cows, portraits, you name it. I would courteously reply that I wouldn’t be able to incorporate these projects into a curriculum that is already in place, while thinking cynically, “everyone just wants something free” as I hung up the phone.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 16:47) -----So this is a converted art professor’s confession about Service-Learning. Eastern Tennessee, the Appalachian area I’m working in has developed significantly culturally. Athens is located on I-75 between Knoxville and Chattanooga. Both of these cities have museums, symphonies, public sculpture and the like. While Athens has an active arts community, some of us feel like cultural missionaries.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 16:51) -----Our first project with them, “Residential Self-Portraits” began to have a life of its own. This project revealed a symbiotic relationship between college art students and assisted living residents.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 16:50) -----Each year the course is offered, community requests are evaluated and selected based on their merit. While we’ve worked with other agencies, the assisted living center is one of our favorites.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 16:49) -----Through the campus Center for Servant Leadership and the Art Practicum course, we had an avenue for incoming community art requests.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 16:52) -----I had developed the course A 391, Art Practicum years ago and offered it on an as-needed basis. When Tennessee Wesleyan College developed The Center for Servant Leadership, faculty were encouraged to think about courses that could be designated as “S.L.”.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 17:00) -----The students decided to develop a survey of the residents to poll their interests and abilities.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 17:01) -----One of their survey questions was “I am interested in showing my art at an exhibit on family night”.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 17:17) -----By the end of the project, Morning point residents had created a self-portrait from six different pieces that they had no idea were connected and the final ‘reveal’ was exciting. Even Bernie’s harsh critique of her own work on opening night, “I think it’s ugly”, was welcomed for it’s honesty. The opening nights are also family nights. The students have enjoyed D.J’s and cheesy puppet acts at receptions. The residents enjoy watching the students brake dancing.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 17:02) -----23 of 27 residents responded favorably.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 17:19) -----One student made the observation that Morning Pointe was “basically like a dorm for old people”, which certainly describes his connection to them.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 15:55) -----I did an about-face in my view of service learning. As long as I’ve been at TWC, people from the community would call and ask if the art department would be willing to paint murals, cows, portraits, you name it. I would courteously reply that I wouldn’t be able to ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 15:56) -----incorporate these projects into a curriculum that is already in place----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 17:20) -----Similarly, my friend and mentor posted on Facebook:
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 17:37) -----So they share a sense of displacement from home and are sort of nomadic. They also share the need to nurture and be nurtured. “The process of (mutual) nurturing helps to promote (both) individual’s development.” E. H. Able Jr.. Art expression incorporates these similarities.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 17:44) -----The tender one-on-one, face-to-face connections made between the students and the residents was invigorating (Even with Bernie and Bernice were constantly dissatisfied). With extremely arthritic hands, and with humor, Bernie would paint and draw with determination. This was meaningful for students to witness.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 17:46) -----Ultimately, these portraits reveal lifetimes of experience with sublime honesty and a fresh attitude.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 17:48) -----Students were interviewed and were the cover story in Milestones Magazine, a publication produced by Morning Pointe Corporation. Then, other Morning Pointe communities invited us to come and work with their residents. While this was not feasible, I noticed the need to have some ideas put in writing.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 18:05) -----Since the first “Residential Self-Portraits” project, we’ve done others such as: “Books of Interest” with the opening reception entitled Recovering/Discovering/Interpreting and “Hands” is the working theme this current term. (puppets would be appropriate for the family night/opening reception)
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 18:16) -----I assess students based on their reflection and demonstration, for both service and art components. Ideally, this gives them the chance to reflect on their overall experience, but also provides a way to break it down into manageable segments. The demonstration portion provides obvious practical scoring for their effort during the semester. These are given out at mid-term and at the end of the semester.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 18:47) -----These projects have become research for a handbook intended to aid activities directors in assisted living facilities with fine art activities. The focus will be how a college or university can organize and implement a partnership with an assisted living community, for the purpose of fine art instruction through servant leadership.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/3/13 17:05) -----Breaking it down as simply as possible to give them easy-to-follow instructions.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 19:06) -----I witnessed an incredible symbiotic interaction between the students and the residents while sitting at the worktable with Bernie and Brittany. I watched in wonder at the ephemeral yet lasting exchange. Perhaps pockets of local communities exchanging art practice in servant leadership will continue grow.
- ----- Meeting Notes (4/1/13 19:07) -----Regardless, “you do it for the moment”.