REM‘Well he obs the firse day, adding thar they nee ving aloe,” Jeff cold the students on astention to issues chat challenge an older popuktion ‘Whar is their space like—i it cluteered? Do they fal alot? How do they feel about che ging process? And what’ their level of cognitive function? How do you talk to someone who may be repeating something five mes? You are going to be experiencing some trauma, she concluded The students hailed from all over Columbia’ campus and beyond in arts administration, art education, art history social work, publichealth, occupational therapy. gerontal xy and socal work, Sadie Rubin, a student at the School of Se al eae eT ca tae Karz, who was studying occupational therapy, had done fund sing fora program thac connected high school students with nursing home residents. Elizabeth Berkowitz, a doctoral candi date in archistory at CUNY, was researching the relationship beeween artists lie stories and their arwork. This is really neat, because you can see an artist’ work bur you dons always ger ro see the process as someone is, rough i” Berkowitz said Berke confessed to another motive for taking the Paul Nikolaidis, a social work student, said he was excited as contributing to a different abour the course because it ing students I 0k ~ JOAN JEFFRI “Warching chem experience their work al over again will a second-year student in arts administration, The artists, to0, were a diverse lor. Betty Blaycon-Taylor helped found the Children’s Art Camival in Harlem and runs an arts school in the neighborhood. Eva Deutsch Costabel, for companies like J.C. Penney and Co Deursch Costabel, a Holocaust survivor, came 10 he first day of class wearing a silver bomber jacket with a GOING To THE SOURCE Tm supposed to be senil ow than when Iwas young So what’ all the fuss abou China Marks, a maker of process-directed contemporary drawings, had dyed her hair ta, “Texpect ro learn a Jor and ro eeach when ie was her turn for an introduction, Perer Ruta was Ruta has painted over 3,000 canvases and sa they have piled up in his Westbeth scucio co the point where Painter Ray Grist summed ic up. “The students ar to geta depth of experience that they would nor normall working with me." ® TC TODAY+ WINTER 2010 11