The Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging will host Look into Your Heart: An Art and Aging Exhibition on Jan. 23 at 5 p.m., featuring artwork by students in Assistant Professor Roberto Muntoreanu’s Fall 2023 Advanced Typography and Design class.
This exhibition marks the second installment of the Center’s Art and Aging collaboration with the Department of Art and Art History, following its inaugural project in Fall 2021 with Assistant Professor Aitor Lajarin-Encina’s Beginning Painting class.
At the first exhibition, a poll of the audience decided the top three paintings: first place: Ana Scott, Radiant Wisdom; second place: Logan Honea, Glass Half Full; third place: Grace Thompson, Classic Beauty. These students received certificates and cash prizes for their art, which is now permanently displayed at the Center for Healthy Aging.
Graphic design focus
This time, the Center collaborated with Muntoreanu and 17 of his graphic design students to highlight CSU aging research and the experiences of older adults.
After receiving a lecture about global aging demographics and the mission of CSU’s Center for Healthy Aging, the students chose between interviewing a Center affiliate faculty member (about their aging research) or an older adult in the community.
They then turned insights gleaned from these interviews into individual works of art: poster zines (short magazines that fold out into a poster.) The resulting zines cover topics from cognitive, cardiovascular, and behavioral aging studies, advice for healthy aging, to life trajectories and personal experiences with the aging process.
Look into Your Heart, the title of the Jan. 23 exhibition, is a nod to Tina Turner’s 1989 song “Look Me in the Heart” and Muntoreanu’s goal for his class. Throughout the project, students were encouraged to set aside any stereotypical beliefs about the aging process, and “look into the heart” of their interviewees to recognize intergenerational wisdom and shared humanity across the lifespan.
When and where
Like the previous exhibition, attendees at the Jan. 23 event can listen to the artists, vote on their favorite zines, and the top three zines will be purchased by the Center for permanent display.
The exhibition will be held from 5-7 p.m. at the Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging, located in the CSU Health and Medical Center at 151 W. Lake St. on the corner of College Ave. and Prospect Rd. Suite 1400 is on the first floor across from Associates in Family Medicine.
This event is open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Parking is available in the Health and Medical Center lot or across W. Lake St. in CSU lot #575, beside the South College Ave. parking garage.
Unable to attend the opening event? No problem! The zines will remain on display at the Center until Jan. 31, allowing those interested to visit and enjoy them at their convenience.
