“Bringing Art to Life” is an inter-generational program aimed at helping people with Alzheimer’s disease and college students, in Alabama.
The program, now in its 5th year, founded by Daniel Potts, M.D., is now offered as an elective Undergraduate Honors course for Art Therapists at the University of Alabama, (UA)—Tuscaloosa.
Bringing Art to Life offers students an opportunity to learn about Alzheimer’s disease (and other types of dementia as well as traumatic brain injury), as students spend time on and off campus. Carrie Ezell facilitates the off-campus art therapy sessions.
Students have responded overwhelmingly positive to the program—even those who do not have a connection with a person with dementia. The college students get an opportunity to see for themselves how art can help those in need of support—such as those with dementia or…
