Red Jeans Redemption Story

“I just couldn’t let it out,” said a 63-year-old woman, whom I’ll call Trudy. So, for years, the repeated childhood molestation remained hidden. Sometimes shame, guilt, and fear keep secrets—hush hush. Before #MeToo, generations of women often suffered without a voice. They had no platform to talk about what happened to them. After viewing The…

Open Hands 2020

Last fall, Open Hands traveled to Chicago, following trips to San Francisco, Austin, and Washington, D.C., earlier this year. This interactive, traveling art experiment highlights the valuable contribution each person offers to the welfare and healing of our planet. Participants from diverse locations, backgrounds, and ages trace their handprint on a piece of a paper…

Lifting Others on Wings of Hope

Abstract work created by Pine Grove Learning Center students and Artist Pamela Alderman, with the generous contribution of Frames Unlimited. To my surprise, special-education teacher Anne Aurand, my neighbor, left a bag in my mailbox filled with beautiful handprints painted by the profoundly challenged students from Pine Grove Learning Center. While spreading the creative treasures…