Schlow's Allen Gallery welcomes "an annual celebration of Ridgelines' semester-long program, “A Poem in Our Eyes,” highlighting the rich intellectual and creative capacities of those living with memory loss." The exhibition will hang in the gallery throughout the month of June.

"A Poem in Our Eyes” is a collaboration between residents of Centre Crest Nursing Home’s memory care unit (Stanton Court), local artists, and a teaching poet. During the weekly, semester-long program, participants work with a Ridgelines teaching artist to write spontaneous poems in response to paintings, photographs, drawings, prints, and sculptures by artists with ties to Centre County. Ridgelines' sessions involve arguments and laughter, silence and talk, thoughtful discussions and questions.

This year, through a special intergenerational project titled Telling Our Stories Together, students from State College Area High School
contributed the images used as visual prompts for the older poets. This collaboration invited students to appreciate the imaginations and creative voices of older adults living with memory loss, while Centre Care residents connected with their surrounding community through photographs of Central Pennsylvania as seen through the eyes of local teens. 

We hope you’ll stop by and enjoy these photographs and the words they inspired.

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