Welcome to Art is Ageless, a program of Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America.
Lee Schmelzle has been happily married to her husband Dick for 66 years, but she’s had a love affair that’s lasted even longer: art. Her drawing, titled “Johnny,” recently won Amateur Best in Show in Presbyterian Manors of Mid America’s masterpiece level ...
Gary Stahl presents his panting, "Our New Home" to Amy Watson, life enrichment director. Gary Stahl was stumped about what to paint next after last year's Art is Ageless reception. Life enrichment director Amy Watson had a suggestion: why not paint th ...
Lela's Shadow Box by June Yoder. Ever since she became eligible a decade ago at age 65, June Yoder has been entering artwork in the annual Art is Ageless® competition at Farmington Presbyterian Manor. She's made quilts and crocheted afghans, sculpt ...
Dr. Gene Marsh's winning artwork from last year's AIA exhibit. In college, Dr. Gene Marsh read "The Agony and the Ecstasy," a biographical novel of the master artist Michelangelo. In the book, he discovered that Michelangelo and other Renaissance arti ...
Irene Hastings taught herself to knit and crochet many years ago. Now she's teaching others. Her latest student is Activity Director Lisa Montoya of Manor of the Plains. "She is teaching me how to make dish scrubbers," Lisa said. "She made one and gav ...
Lois Froelich had to learn how to paint so she could teach the techniques to her high school art students. "I was teaching at a small high school, and you have to teach everything, so I started practicing painting when we got to that part," Lois said. ...
Louise Feldt and Nola Vice pose with one of Louise’s many quilts. Louise Feldt has been sewing all her life. However, over the past year she seemed to spend more time in the hospital and rehab than at her sewing machine. After having a knee replacemen ...
"Morning Flight," by Jessica Stanley. Julia Stanley hadn't held a paintbrush in 25 years when her mother asked Julia to paint a picture for her. So, when her mother went out of town, she sat down once again with her oil paints and created an autumn sc ...
Pat Ringle signs copies of the 2016 Art is Ageless® calendar. If you only knew Pat Ringle from her background, you’d be shocked to learn she was recently named as one of the top artists in the Art is Ageless® competition, a juried art show for those 6 ...
"Pretty Poppies" by Dixie Lee Haddock When Dixie Lee Haddock was a little girl, her family joked that she would paint anything that stood still. As a child in Niles, Kan., she painted snowmen and poinsettias on the windows of her parents' farm equi ...
