Concept of a Plan - Caregiver Arts Alliance - 2026 03 07

 

Graphite, pen and ink, acrylic ink, wax resist - 9" x 12" 2023

A quick note about an idea - forming a no-profit caregiver arts alliance - this would be a cooperative venture to bring the creative works of culture workers - music, art, poetry, dance, needle arts - into the world of caregivers - who are constrained by their caregiving duties to living hermetic lives sealed up with their frail or medically compromised care recipient.

Creating a flow of inspiring works into the fields of perception of caregivers - likely through computer screens - and also providing a space for caregivers to share their own creative works, works that are necessarily impacted by their caregiving lives, and an important part of processing and making meaning of their experience. Through the process of sharing, their sense of isolation and loneliness is lessened, they have a feeling of being seen, that the work they do is seen as important, they are not alone.

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