Photo: Starbuck’s sandwich board art Time for a rhythm reset as we move into summer! I can’t wait to reveal some exciting interactive and collaborative art opportunities next September. Meanwhile, it’s time to enjoy family, summer campfires, and a few amazing creative adventures. Until then… A recent interactive healing art project with school children
Celebrate with us! We reached our first goal of 1000 handprints! Art is one way, or solution, to work through some of my own dilemmas or emotional scars. My art supports the tension of being in process and moving forward. Over the years, this work has evolved from static art hanging on a wall to…
Broken Wings No. 5 – Kaleidoscope 3 x 3 foot Mixed Media A collaborative work with Breton and Raybrook Assisted Living Facilities and artist Pamela Alderman Monarchs fly low to the ground on the southerly wind to migrate to a warmer climate. They also ride thermals, a rising column of air, like a hawk. The…
Broken Wings No. 4 – Legacy Journey 3 x 3 foot Mixed Media A collaborative work with Breton and Raybrook Assisted Living Facilities and artist Pamela Alderman A Monarch butterflies takes about five generations to migrate from Canada to Mexico and back again. Scientists believe the butterflies have some sort of internal mechanism that guides…
Broken Wings No. 3 – Patterns of Resiliency 3 x 3 foot Mixed Media A collaborative work with Breton and Raybrook Assisted Living Facilities and artist Pamela Alderman Monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico every autumn. Somehow, millions of delicate butterflies complete the dangerous 3,000-mile journey in spite of severe weather, pesticides, and habitat…
The Breton Woods and Raybrook Assisted Living Facilities commissioned ArtPrize Top 20 artist Pamela Alderman to help guide residents through art engagement projects. For seven weeks under the direction Pamela, residents from all levels of care created six interactive healing pieces. The final work will be showcased during Holland Home’s Long-Term Care Week. One resident’s…
My elegant grandmother, the middle of ten children, was born in 1903. Her father had to clear the land in northern Michigan before he could farm. So, like others from her generation, she needed to quit school after the ninth grade to work the farm. Her favorite subject was math. As a young adult known…