Daniel Lorentz, a senior from Winder, Georgia, pursuing a degree in art with a concentration in graphic design, served on one of the teams creating the art and helped set up the gallery for a Jan. 29 reception as a visual arts intern.
“I enjoyed giving an outside looking in perspective to it,” Lorentz said. “I wanted to capture the essence of love I have for own grandparents and if I were to take care of them, how would I want to advertise this feeling?”
Natalie Bourgeois, a senior from Cleveland, Georgia, pursuing a B.F.A. in visual arts with a focus in graphic design, particularly liked how the project resembled the real world through gaining feedback from a client.
“Being able to make designs for an organization that’s helping others was really rewarding and a great learning experience about caregiving, as well,” she said.
Dr. Pamela Elfenbein, Institute for Healthy Aging director, said students thrived on the project.
“Our students’ engagement with our community stakeholders for this project was significant because it gave our students the opportunity to hear from our strategic planning team what they wanted to represent with the final project, actively use and synthesize their classroom and studio learning, apply these to a new situation, and create something unique and personal,” Elfenbein said. “Students were also afforded the opportunity to collaborate with peers and faculty from different departments, build teamwork skills, discuss together their understanding of the needs of the community the project was meant to represent, and create artwork that is relevant and meaningful to real-life situations.”
