by mkellent | Oct 13, 2015 | Inspiration, Purpose, Working in the Field
I just hung a show of 15 Native American Elder Artists and it was a joy to work with the 6 or so artists who turned up to help. They were all so appreciative of having their work shown and not one acted as if their work is superior to anyone...
by mkellent | Oct 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
When people see a building with “seniors” in the title they often tend to think of a depressing place – a “warehouse where people wait to die” (a quote from a resident of her former “life”.) This is scandalous and I have spent the last 14 years changing...
by mkellent | Jul 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
We left the center of Havana and Old Havana with their grand buildings (some of them in disrepair) and went to an outlying neighborhood that was obviously quite poor. We navigated around the potholes and cracks on streets with few sidewalks to arrive at a...
by mkellent | Jun 19, 2015 | Inspiration
The old woman picked her way down the cobblestoned street, one more day in a life of hard work written large on her body. Suddenly the sounds of evening in Havana were shattered by the music of klaxon horns heralding the approach of a procession of vividly colored old...