by DSF Admin | Aug 31, 2022 | Featured Artist
Photographer and Clark University Professor Stephen DiRado has been taking photographs of his family on a large format, single-plate, tripod-mounted camera since he was a teenager. His father Gene was a successful graphic artist for the state of Massachusetts,... 
by DSF Admin | Aug 17, 2022 | Featured Artist
Not everyone gets to meet their hero, and fewer become their friend, closest confidant and eventual caregiver. But that’s what happened to journalist Michelle Memran when she looked up María Irene Fornés (1930-2018), Obie award winning avant-garde playwright,... 
by DSF Admin | Aug 10, 2022 | Featured Artist
When Len and Elaine Bard paid their grandson Jason Bard Yarmosky $1 to give them art lessons when he was 4, little did they know that in their older age they would become his muses for a series of paintings that challenge our very notions of aging and Alzheimer’s... 
by DSF Admin | Jul 21, 2022 | Featured Artist
When it comes to mourning and grief after the death of a loved one, Alzheimer’s disease can pose unique challenges. For visual artist Amy Parrish, who was living thousands of miles from home when her grandmother Mary Jane passed on, mourning that loss became an act of... 
by DSF Admin | Jul 7, 2022 | Featured Artist
Grace Robison was a teenager when her grandmother Mary Lou started showing signs of dementia. Mary Lou had trouble remembering Grace, and Grace saw Mary Lou becoming someone new, mentally and physically. ‘It was like we were forgetting each other,’ Robison says.... 
by DSF Admin | Jun 30, 2022 | Featured Artist
Caring for someone living with dementia is an intimate role and while it is often rewarding, it can also be difficult. As a caregiver, some may feel alone as they navigate their loved one’s diagnosis. Leilani Norman is telling a new story of dementia caregiving....
