Welcome to Art is Ageless, a program of Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America.
Resident Mary Burchill with two handstitched art projects. Every time Mary Burchill and her husband, Brower, would fly over western Kansas, Mary would study the patterns in the fields below. “I always thought that would be a really neat quilt,” Mar ...
Holding one of his partially finished pieces, Russell James is happy to share his hobby and expertise with others. Almost everyone has a hobby. For some, it could be golf, bridge or books. For others, it’s something a bit more unusual. Take Russell Ja ...
Kay Sokol While living in Tulsa, Okla., Kay Sokol decided to take a watercolor class. Little did she know that not only would she develop a great talent, her talent would one day produce an income. “Vivian Nielson was a friend of mine, and she love ...
Dorothy Jefferies with a stained glass piece she created in her workshop. Whether it reminds you of the solace of a church pew or delights your senses with its varied palette, stained glass is something almost everyone enjoys. And just like light thro ...
Give Doris Clark a pencil, and she’ll give you a portrait. Clark mastered the art of sketching portraits in her teens, but she never had a lesson. Back then, she enjoyed copying pictures of movie stars from magazines, especially actresses. Today, her f ...
Doris Wyatt, resident artist When Doris Wyatt was in third grade, she heard about soldiers in the war who needed blankets. So she and her schoolmates learned to knit for the war effort. The girls took their nine-inch drab wool squares to the American ...
Richard McCauley Richard McCauley had never created a single piece of artwork in his life. But then he saw the painting classes on the Rolla Presbyterian Manor activity schedule and figured, why not? That was about a year ago. Today, Richard alread ...
Alma Duncan and her second place entry in the 2013 Art is Ageless competition. Alma Duncan almost didn’t enter this year’s Art is Ageless® competition. She had been disappointed before when the paintings and afghans she entered didn’t place at all. ...
By Shawnna Robinson Reprinted with permission of Farmington Press His name is Gerald and his smile is contagious. The large brown eyes look out over the living room at Scott and Linda Freeman’s home in Farmington. If Linda Freeman’s wish comes ...
Lorene Peterson with several of her paintings, including her prizewinning piece, “Kansas Sunset,” far right. Lorene Peterson has shared a couple of different talents with the Art is Ageless® program during the past 10 years. While she’s been talented ...
