“Art for Life” Program with ISU Students

Developmental Services, Inc. (DSI), INARF member and State Use employment provider, recently had some help from students at Indiana State University (ISU). Art classes for adults at DSI were provided by students from ISU’s Community School of the Arts. The twice weekly classes were a program called “Art for Life”, which was funded by a grant from the Wabash Valley Community Foundation. 

"Art, I think, is one of the things that touches them and brings out personality and brings out communication and just togetherness in the community," said Sarah Cole, who is working on her Master of Fine Arts in painting, "it sort of reminds everyone that everyone needs attention. Everyone needs to feel like they are heard and I think art really does that."

Shayla Fish, a senior art educaton major at Indiana State University, works with developmentally disabled adults at Development Services, Inc. in Terre Haute July 22, 2015 as part of Art for Life, a program offered by the univesity's Community School of the Arts. Photo credit: (ISU/Rachel Keyes)