Garden Room  Westfield State College   333 Western Avenue

In a unique collaborative fundraising event, the Alzheimer’s Association, MA/NH Chapter, the Tri-County Alzheimer’s Partnership and the YMCA of Greater Westfield will hold an art auction featuring watercolor paintings created in the Alzheimer’s Association art expression program called, Memories in the Making. The event, scheduled to take place at Westfield State College on Friday, December 5th from 6:30-9:00PM, will also have accompanying paintings submitted by student artists from the YMCA and Westfield State College. The evening will be an intergenerational celebration of the arts, recognizing the power of art to enrich our lives throughout the lifespan from early childhood to older adulthood.

Tickets are $25/person and will be available beginning on November 1st, at the YMCA, located at 67 Court Street in Westfield and the Alzheimer’s Association, located at 264 Cottage Street in Springfield.

Sponsorships are available at the $25 level to the title sponsor level of $2,500.

For more information or to be a personal or corporate sponsor, please contact Rosann Scalise, Program Operations Director at the YMCA at 413-568-8631 or Ginny Sinkoski, Outreach Coordinator at 413-787-1113.

The 50 paintings for both silent and live auction will be available to view by November at the Alzheimer’s Association website, http://www.alzmass.org/. Online bidding will also be available of select paintings.

If you have any additional questions please contact Rosann Scalise at
rscalise@westfieldymca.org or call her at 413-568-8631.