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Greetings,
The
holidays are fast-approaching - a time when family members and close friends
gather to enjoy each other's company.
Over 60% of
the seniors ELDERGIVERS serves have no visitors, anytime of the year. For them, the connections they make
in the Art With Elders (AWE) classes and the warmth and friendliness of our
Artist-Instructors alleviate some of this loss. This issue, though, focuses on
the other 40% of elders we serve and gives a different perspective on AWE -
through the voices of their children.
December is
also a time when we think of the needs of others and of our community as a
whole. In this newsletter, Debra Dolch shares her reasons for making
ELDERGIVERS a top priority for her charitable giving.
Our new Friends and Donors page on our website offers new ways in which you, too, can support ELDERGIVERS - everything from eBay auctions to art sales to simple cash. There is a way that is just right for you!Visit our website or download our Giving Page to see how you can make your own generous gift.
Finally,
the 18th Annual Art With Elders Exhibit opens January 9, 2010
for a seven week stay at the San Francisco Main Library. Don't miss it. It's
one of our best.
Happy
Holidays from all of us to all of you!
Pam Hagen, Editor
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A Donor's Perspective: Debra Dolch
Debra
Dolch, a CPA, is the principal of Debra J. Dolch Fiduciary Services. Her firm
acts as Trustee, Conservator, Executor and/or Agent under Advanced Health Directives
for a variety of clients throughout the Bay Area, the majority of whom are seniors.
This thoughtful and inspiring San Franciscan has
generously invested ideas, time and money in ELDERGIVERS from its very beginning.
She served as a board member from 1989 to 1991; was a strong advocate for Art
With Elders when it was in its infancy in 1991; and helped secure the funds to
hire AWE's first program director in 1995. She has made a significant financial
donation to ELDERGIVERS every December for the past two decades.
Read our interview with Debra
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ELDER ARTIST
Sam Hinton - An easy seque
One of the fathers of the folk-song movement that began in this country in the 1930s, Sam Hinton is perhaps best known for music that got school children and folk-festival audiences tapping their feet and singing along for decades. By his own reckoning, he knew over 2,000 songs. But he was hardly a stranger to the visual arts.
Read more about Sam
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Is there
not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life
of the individual, so that at its conclusion it may appear as a work of art?
Albert Einstein
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ELDER ARTIST
Peggy Barron - Back at it!
"If you
were to cut her, she'd bleed paint," Amy Barron chuckles as she describes the
role that art has played in her mom's life.
Peggy Barron is one of the few students in the Art
With Elders program who has had previous art experience (at left as a young
prize winner). Although she has had no formal training, her mother, Helen
Hutton Hood, was an artist in the Work Project Administration in the 1930s and
nurtured a creative environment at home. She let her daughter draw on the back
of her own canvases.
Read more about Peggy
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ELDER ARTIST
Selina Poong - A new hand at art
If you
don't mind stretching analogies, Selina Poong did have some familiarity with art prior
to her introduction to the Art With Elders classes at Eden Villa. For 40 years,
this outgoing, gregarious mother of four was an Avon lady and quite practiced
at using the cosmetician's brush and palette to bring out the best in her
client's faces.
But her daughter, Elizabeth Mark, marvels at what
her mother has accomplished with a different brush and palette and under very
different circumstances in the past two years. Selina had a stroke in 2008, at
age 90, that took away the use of her dominant right hand and pretty much silenced
her speech. She came to live at Eden Villa.
Pictured are Elizabeth Mark, Ron Gin and Selina Poong at Eden Villa.
Read more about Selina
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ART WITH ELDERS SALE
Saturday, December 12, 2009
10am - 3pm
First
Congregational Church
1323 Polk
Street. San Francisco, CA 94109
Corner of Polk and Bush Streets
Take
advantage of this opportunity to find a unique gift for friends and family. We
will be selling 70 paintings from earlier Art With Elders exhibits. All are
framed and include a picture and a biographical sketch of the artist. Paintings
are priced from $25 to $250.
Nine Lives: Uncovering the Wealth of Life
Stories Within Our Nursing Homes will be
on sale for just $7, marked down from $20. These books are an exercise in
wisdom-harvesting - picking the ripe fruit of long lives and sharing it with
the community.
See some of the paintings that will be on sale
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 CELEBRATING
ART WITH ELDERS
San Francisco Main Library
18th Annual Exhibit
Saturday, January 9 to
February 28, 2010
Celebrating
Art with Elders,
sponsored by ELDERGIVERS,
the Library, and The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, will showcase
watercolors, acrylics, oil pastels, crayon, pen and ink and pencil drawings and
collages created by diverse elders who reside in long-term care facilities
around the Bay Area.
Photo of library skylight by Joe Mabel
Illustrated
Lecture: Creating Space for Creativity
Koret
Auditorium - Reception following event
Saturday,
January 9, 2:00, Free
Lillian
Cartwright, Ph.D., will explore the role which environment (physical, social,
psychological, etc.) can play in nurturing creativity. Her presentation will be followed by three shorter talks by Artist-Instructors who teach weekly classes in the Art With Elders program:
Mark H. Campbell, Veronica Rojas and Rafael Vieira.
Three
Short Documentary Films
Koret
Auditorium - Reception following event
Saturday,
February 20, 2:00, Free
The Library and ELDERGIVERS, with Legacy Films and
The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, will screen three short films:
- Bella, Bella, which profiles Bay Area artist Bella Feldman
- Shadow & Light, which focuses on artist Elaine Badgley Arnoux
- Smitten, the story of art collector Rene di Rosa.
This will be followed by a discussion
with the filmmakers led by Sheila Malkind of Legacy Films.
Read more about the 18th Annual Exhibit
Download a flyer for the 18th Annual Exhibit
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Many thanks for your interest in our work. We invite you to send us any suggestions. And please feel free to share our newsletter with your friends and family.
Sincerely,
Brent Nettle
Executive Director
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COMING IN JANUARY!
18TH ANNUAL EXHIBIT
San Francisco Library
The Jewett Gallery
Saturday, January 9 to Sunday, February 28
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Our Thanks to the
2009 Host Sites for the
17th Traveling Exhibit
Oakland:
Frank
Ogawa Plaza
The Ordway Building
San Francisco:
AgeSong's
580 Gallery
Calvary
Presbyterian Church
City
Hall
The
New Federal Building
595
Market Street
Flax
Art & Design
Koret
Health & Recreation Center, USF
Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals
One
Market Plaza
Rincon
Center
San
Francisco Women Artists Gallery
Thoreau
Center Gallery
War
Memorial Performing Arts Center
South San Francisco:
Genentech
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