Alzheimer's Empowerment: Dare to Find the Beauty
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​​ALZHEIMER'S EMPOWERMENT
​​DARE TO FIND THE BEAUTY

by Maggie Barnes


​​​​​​​There are three rooms in this exhibit.
 
​Each room is carefully created to help attendees closely examine 
what it means 
to stay​ in relationship with ​someone who has Alzheimer's.

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​(click on room name or picture for more information on each room)

ROOM  1
I'M STILL HERE
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Displayed alongside a photo of their underpainting, the paintings in this room were created by ​writing out selected Dr. Dog song lyrics and then ​painting over the words. ​​​ ​The written out song lyrics represent the soul of ​the ​person we love. The painting over of the words represents the profound changes in our loved one.


​ROOM  2
CREATING MEANING
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The paintings exhibited in this room were created at a Dr. Dog sound check. They are displayed alongside a magnetic board with lyric snippets.  Much like the refrigerator poetry idea, this interactive room asks attendees to splice together selected words and phrases from various Dr. Dog lyrics to create ​new and innovative meaning.​ 


ROOM  3
YOU'RE ​NOT
​ALONE
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In the spirit of practicing the willingness to be vulnerable and to let people know what’s going on, ​all the paintings in this room are created by the attendees themselves. They are given a prompt and asked to create artwork and then leave it at the exhibit for someone else to take home, swapping it out with a piece made by someone who came through the exhibit before them.



​How we choose to respond to the life-altering diagnosis of Alzheimer's
​has a profound effect on how it is experienced for everyone involved.
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