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…
Twenty years ago, the Columbine High School tragedy happened. America sat in shock, frozen before the television. Kids were gunned down. At school. The killers laughing. Like playing Fortnite. In real life. Sadly, history replayed. A few years later a milkman locked ten Amish girls in a Pennsylvania school house and pulled the trigger. Again.…
“How would you help heal our broken world?” As an artist, I was delighted when one person responded to my question with the word “create.” This traveling art project purposes to start a movement of healing through interactive and collaborative art. To participate, individuals are invited to trace their hand on a piece of map…