What’s Art Got to Do With It?
Submitted by Steve on September 6, 2013
Grantmakers In Aging CEO, John Feather, PhD, posts to Huffington Post:
To paraphrase rock and R&B legend Tina Turner (an artist who will turn 74 this fall), “what’s art got to do with it?” (“It” refers here to aging.) This question arose after I attended a conference on aging, health, and the arts and was sharing my excitement with some colleagues in the aging services field. After listening politely for a while, one of them finally blurted out what the others may also have been thinking: “What’s art got to do with aging?”