Art Gallery
ELDERGIVERS has two visual art programs: Art With Elders and Elder Arts Celebrations. Both include classwork and exhibitions.
Art With Elders (AWE) offers classes, taught by professional artists from the community, in long-term care facilities. Our current 16th Annual Exhibition is touring the Bay Area and is currently on exhibit at Genentech in So. San Francisco. This venue is the only one during the tour that is not open to the public.
PURCHASE INFORMATION - A number of the images on tour have not been released for sale by the artist or their guardian. All the images in the online gallery are for sale and prices are included. In addition, due to space limitations at Genentech, not all the images that make up the 16th Annual tour are hanging there. So you will find some here that you haven't seen before! If you are interested in purchasing a piece of elder art work, please email info@eldergivers.org. IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THE CONTINUITY AND INTEGRITY OF THE TOURING EXHIBIT, PURCHASED ART WORKS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR DELIVERY UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2008. PAYMENT BY CHECK OR CREDIT CARD WILL RESERVE THE ART WORK FOR YOU AND INSURE DELIVERY. To enter the ONLINE GALLERY, please click here. Enjoy the show!
NEW TO THE ART WITH ELDERS GALLERY!
Archived Images from the past four Annual Exhibits
View images from the 12th
through the 15th Annual
Exhibits by clicking one of the images below.
(The 12th through the 15th are represented from left to right)
Elder Arts Celebrations (EAC) celebrates artists who are alumni, faculty and students over the age of 65 who have taken or are in the process of taking classes at Bay Area art schools. ELDERGIVERS exhibits artwork from both programs.
We hope that visitors to our website will also be visitors to our exhibitions, so you can see first hand the extraordinary work of elders that you might not otherwise see. The EVENTS section of the website will show you where the exhibits are located. But we also invite you to enjoy a sample of ELDERGIVERS' art in our online galleries.
The exhibition of art is important to the artist, among other reasons, because viewer response helps to refine the artist's motivations, practice and execution.
Exhibitions are important to viewers, because observing art in its many forms and variations tends to open the mind and heart to another's experience and perspective. It promotes a liberalism of thought. It supports democracy.
So, please, enter and browse our on-line galleries. But promise yourself you'll visit an ELDERGIVERS' exhibit soon. Join us at a reception for the artists and meet them face-to-face.