Manor of the Plains
MARCH 2020
The inspiring influence of an art lover By Lauren Stiller Rikleen for Next Avenue
Karen Ring is shown winning first in the amateur Christmas category and also is featured in the 2020 Art is Ageless® calendar.
Manor of the Plains Art is Ageless® exhibit and reception features senior artists
Manor of the Plains has issued a call for entries for the Art is Ageless® juried exhibit to be held March 12 – 18, 2020. Entries of artistic works will be accepted from any area artist who is 65 years of age or older to exhibit and/or compete for an opportunity to be featured in the 40th anniversary Art is Ageless calendar in 2021. Artists may choose to enter the exhibit only. For the competition, works are to have been completed in the past five years (since January 2015). There are nine categories, as well as designations of amateur or professional. Works to be entered for judging need to be at Manor of the Plains by March 6.
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My husband’s mother, Rebecca Frank Rikleen, celebrated her 96th birthday on Halloween, but likely did not have a lot of time for festivities. Most days, she walks down the steep hill behind the rent-controlled New York City apartment where she’s lived for the past 68 years to catch a bus that takes her to an art workshop or poetry class. After returning by bus and walking up that same hill, she may spend some of her afternoon attending a memoir class at a neighborhood complex or walking to the Riverside Church for a lecture or going to another senior center for an additional art class.
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