Senior Sunday
Every 4th Sunday of the month at 2pm

The Humboldt Arts Council and the Morris Graves Museum of Art in partnership with the Humboldt Docent Council is proud to announce an afternoon just for seniors!

Every 4th Sunday of the month at 2pm enjoy a Museum Tour with trained docents to learn about the Museum’s history, permanent collection, and current exhibitions while sipping tea and meeting new friends!

Admission is FREE.

HAC Alzheimer’s Project

The HAC Alzheimer’s Project is designed to expand the Humboldt Arts Council’s (HAC) outreach programs and to meet specific needs in the community. The Alzheimer’s Project broadens the reach of the programs at the Humboldt Arts Council and the Morris Graves Museum of Art Art (MGMA) and is modeled off the New York MoMA Alzheimer’s Project.

Utilizing the expertise developed by New York MoMA educators, the HAC Alzheimer's Project is dedicated to making art accessible to people living with early and middle-stage Alzheimer's with an emphasis on practical approaches for enhancing participants' lives with art. The Humboldt Arts Council and the Morris Graves Museum of Art recognizes the diversity of the general public's abilities and needs, and offers a variety of programs to ensure the accessibility of the Museum, its collection, and its services. The Museum strives to provide the most inclusive environment for every Museum visitor.

The HAC Alzheimer's Project aims to continue and improve the HAC’s Adult and Senior programming which features interactive tours of the Museum's collection and its special exhibitions for individuals in the early and middle stages of the disease, art talks and art classes at the Center, rotating exhibitions at the Center, and an annual exhibition at the MGMA highlighting the work created by the clients at the Center. The HAC Alzheimer's Project also aims to determine the best practices in creating, developing, and implementing Museum tours and related programming for individuals with Alzheimer's disease in a museum setting and for those in assisted living facilities, and to provide outreach to raise awareness of, and advocacy for, the benefits of making the arts accessible to individuals with Alzheimer's and their caregivers.

HAC Alzheimer's Project programs include:

• Museum Tours: The MGMA hosts private monthly tours for the New Alzheimer's Center in Eureka. These tours alternate between guided docent tours through designated exhibitions and special performances by local musicians.

• Art Classes: The MGMA offers classes quarterly for the Adult Day Services at the New Alzheimer's Center in Eureka. Based on the needs of the center, projects are flexible and dynamic.

• Art Talk: Art Talk is an opportunity for adults at the Adult Day Services at the New Alzheimer's Center to talk with a trained docent about Art. These Art Talks take place quarterly at the New Alzheimer's Center.

• Art Bank: Artwork on loan from the HAC Permanent Collection will be hung in the Living Room at the New Alzheimer's Center and rotated on a Quarterly calendar. This artwork will reinforce the material to be discussed at the Art Talk.

• Art Boxes: Museum Program Manager and Curator of Education, Rebecca Cacciari, has created four Art Boxes to be used in the New Alzheimer's Center. Art Boxes are self contained projects including watercolors, scrap booking, and collage materials. Rebecca has trained the staff and volunteers to use these self-contained art boxes with the clients in order to provide them with one-on-one interaction and a way to express themselves, relieve stress, and build a sense of community with in the Center.

• Exhibition: The Morris Graves Museum of Art will host an annual exhibition of the work creating by the clients at the Adult Day Services at the New Alzheimer's Center.