A Project that Honors Older Artists and Their Work

Now in her late 60s, Carmen Torruella-Quander says, “This project has made me see that what I do is important….ART CART has opened people’s eyes to what artists DO.”
  

A painter based in Washington DC, Carmen is talking about ART CART: SAVING THE LEGACY, an inter-generational, interdisciplinary project created by the Research Center for Arts and Culture at the  National Center for Creative Aging. The project, which began in 2010, is on its way to a national rollout. ART CART matches teams of advanced students in the arts, health and aging with professional visual artists age 62+ to help document their work and save our national legacy — a legacy of the Civil Rights movement, the women’s movement, the history of the country.