Crossing Generational Streams
Teens create art, receive insightful life advice
By Seattle Mag February 14, 2025
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2025 issue of Seattle magazine.
Kids look toward the future. Older people often relive the past.
Those two worlds collided in the best of ways recently when the Woodinville Teen Arts Alliance collaborated with residents from Fairwinds Brittany Park Retirement Home to create beautiful art inspired by residents’ lives.
“Our conversations made me appreciate the value of human connection and community.”
“This project was interesting to create because it’s essentially my interpretation, as an outsider, of the life of an elder,” says Alliance member Ellina Chang. “Art is inherently subjective, and I found it refreshing to get to hear about and understand the unique lens through which someone has experienced so many views of the world.”
The teens’ creativity was met with some helpful life advice as well.
“Listening to their stories broadened my perspective on life,” says another Alliance member, Anvitha Suresh.
“Our conversations made me appreciate the value of human connection and community.”
The artwork was also recently displayed at Tara Jennings Fine Art Gallery in Woodinville.
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