Photo by Cecile Puretz

Creative Insights: Art and Alzheimer’s Tours

Monday, Aug 26, 2019 | 10am–12pm

ADMISSION: Free; registration required. For more information or to register, contact vsouza@alz.org or 408.372.9976.

Featured tour: Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped

Individuals with early-stage Alzheimer’s and their care partners are invited to join a multisensory guided tour. Each tour centers on a theme and incorporates a multi-sensory component, including tactile objects, art-making, storytelling, poetry, or movement. Following the tour, participants will be invited to join an art-making project that encourages community-building, conversation, and experimentation with different art forms.

This program is offered in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association of Northern California and Elder Care Alliance's new initiative Erasing Boundaries: Dementia-Inclusive Communities.

Image description: A diverse group of older adults, some seated and some standing, are in the gallery listening to the tour guide and looking at a piece of art in an enclosed case.

accessibility

The CJM strives for a welcoming environment for all of our visitors. In addition to ample space for wheelchairs and a friendly environment for service animals, sign language interpretation (ASL) can be scheduled for all programs with at least two weeks notice.

FM assistive listening devices (ALDs) for sound enhancement are available for all talks and tours. Please note that we would like to maintain this as a scent-free environment, and encourage visitors to refrain from using scented products out of respect for visitors with allergies or chemical sensitivities. For additional accommodation requests, please contact The CJM’s Access and Community Engagement Manager at access@thecjm.org or 415-655-7856.

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COMMUNITY PARTNER

The Alzheimer's Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer's care, support, and research. The Alzheimer's Association's mission is to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. Specialized services—including support groups, care consultation, and education programs—are available for people with Early Stage Alzheimer's or related disorders and their care partners. Programs are available throughout the Bay Area. For more information, please contact the Alzheimer's Association 24/7 Helpline at 800.272.3900.

Erasing Boundaries is a new project from Elder Care Alliance (ECA) intent on extending ECA’s reach beyond their five elder communities. ECA seeks to develop innovative, collaborative, and truly life-changing projects that change the way we approach aging and end-of-life. With the generous support of The San Francisco Foundation, ECA has been able to take the first step toward enacting a vision of multigenerational, creative communities that celebrate older adults, people living with dementia, care partners, and caregivers. For more information, visit erasingboundaries.org.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped is the first major survey of Annabeth Rosen (b. 1957 Brooklyn, NY), Robert Arneson Chair at UC Davis, and 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.

For over two decades, Rosen has interrogated the medium of ceramics in the context of contemporary art. Featuring ceramics and works on paper from over twenty years, this groundbreaking exhibition examines how Rosen’s work radically defies the limits of her primary medium, pushing it beyond spectacle and into conversations about contemporary painting, feminist theory, endurance-based performance, and conceptual art.

Sculpture composed of many colorful fragments of ceramics, bound together.

Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped (installation view), at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2017. Photo by Annabeth Rosen. Courtesy the artist.

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