Duncaster

This morning, along with a gang of community residents, I hung an art quilt show in the art gallery of the Duncaster Retirement Community in Bloomfield, CT, --an opportunity I would not have had if I hadn't gone to UConn Health Center for a mammogram.  How's that for the power of preventive medicine?

The day of my mammogram appointment, I saw art on the Health Center's lobby walls, tracked down the woman who arranges the art shows for the facility, and asked whether I could have such a show.  My work was accepted and the show took place in the spring and summer of 2012.  One day during those months, Jackie Mott Brown, a resident of Duncaster, walked into the facility for a medical procedure, saw my art, and asked whether I would have a show at Duncaster.  I said yes, the show was scheduled for March 2013, and today, March 1, 2013, we hung it.

Work waiting to be hung:  L-R:  Serious Sushi, Lunch among the Cabbages, Trail at Cape Cod National Seashore, Trout Brook, Celery Rose

Duncaster resident Paul Sessa, seated at left, has a good eye for arrangement, so he gave advice while a team of Duncaster residens got out their hammers and nails and did the actual hanging.

Here are Judy Wawro, and Carol, whose last name I don't  know, hanging Buddhist Temple I.

Carol and Paul hanging Celery Rose

Here's the Duncaster hanging team:  Gloria, Jackie Mott Brown (who invited me to hang my work there), Paul Sessa, Carol, and Judy Wawro.  Inexplicably not pictured:  Alice Loomis, who worked alongside us.

 Thanks to all of them for the opportunity to meet and hang out this morning...and to show my work in their enviably lovely home!