“Lifegiving” by Esmie Gayo McLaren 🏆 1st Place!
Title: Lifegiving Artist: Esmie Gayo McLaren Medium: Painting (watercolor on paper) How does this artwork represent healthy human aging? (Artwork Description) “Lifegiving” (14″ x 20″) is a watercolor painting on paper. My artwork shows my father focused on creating one of his creatures from a clump of clay. Along with gardening, playing scrabble, cooking, and […]
“Transformation: One Day or Day One” by Gloria Daly 🥈 2nd Place!
Title: Transformation: One Day or Day One Artist: Gloria S. Daly Medium: Textile art How does this artwork represent healthy human aging? (Artwork Description) Experiencing an ischemic stroke in January 2021, a month in the hospital, and returning home alone gave me an opportunity to truly find out what “stuff” I was made of. As […]
“Harmony” by Merry Meredith 🥉 3rd Place (tie)!
Title: Harmony Artist: Merry Meredith Medium: Mixed media How does this artwork represent healthy human aging? (Artwork Description) Harmony: accepting changes in body and spirit as we age gracefully, open to change, new adventures, and safe and healthful activities, maintaining connections with friends and community, helping ourselves and helping others to live our best lives […]
“Home” by Annette Nieukerk 🥉 3rd Place (tie)!
Title: Home Artist: Annette Nieukerk Medium: Mixed media (walnut ink, oil paint, drafting film on silkscreen print on birch panel) How does this artwork represent healthy human aging? (Artwork Description) My painting, “Home” (36” x 24”), is part of a larger series that evokes the intimacy and sensuality that can exist at advancing years, the […]
“Aspiration: Dancing ‘Auntie'” by Naznin Virji-Babul, Investigator Award Winner!
Title: Aspiration: Dancing “Auntie” Artist: Naznin Virji-Babul Medium: Small sculpture (clay and fabric) How does this artwork represent healthy human aging? (Artwork Description) In my culture, we often address female elders of the community as “auntie” as a sign of respect and seniority. As I age, I find more and more younger people referring to […]
“Living For Family” by Dina Salama FINALIST!
Title: Living For Family Artist: Dina Salama Medium: Digital painting How does this artwork represent healthy human aging? (Artwork Description) Everyone says they would die for their family. But we also need to be healthy and live with them, just as much as we’d be willing to die for them. Being healthy allows us to […]
“Vibrant Years” by Leila Osouli FINALIST!
Title: Vibrant Years Artist: Leila Osouli Medium: Mixed media (photography, collage, watercolor) How does this artwork represent healthy human aging? (Artwork Description) The artwork, titled “Vibrant Years,” is a mixed media piece combining photography, collage, and watercolor. It explores the theme of healthy aging by showing a diverse array of older adults engaged in everyday […]
“Born to Fly” by Jeff Chenatte FINALIST!
Title: Born to Fly Artist: Jeff Chenatte Medium: Photography How does this artwork represent healthy human aging? (Artwork Description) Find something that you love to do and you’ll never work a day in your life. For Allen French, that bliss was flying: he has spent a lifetime in the air and when he was not […]
“The Never Too Late Art Group” by Carla Maskall FINALIST!
Title: The Never Too Late Art Group Artist: Carla Maskall Medium: Photography and digital art How does this artwork represent healthy human aging? (Artwork Description) Healthy human aging is represented in this piece that highlights 3 artists from the “Never Too Late Art Group”. Nine years ago, Betty, photo on the left, started an art […]
“Marching Toward 100” by Mary Wulff FINALIST!
Title: Marching Toward 100 Artist: Mary Wulff Medium: Painting (oil on cradle board) How does this artwork represent healthy human aging? (Artwork Description) This painting is inspired by someone dear to me marching toward her 100th birthday. She would be horrified to be seen in her birthday suit, but I can’t think of anything more […]