Nancy @ Ninety
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Several years after William Meredith sustained a major stroke, well-meaning friends and therapists suggested that art therapy might be helpful to develop motor skills for the affected hand. We’d heard of a legendary teacher from Montgomery College and approached her about taking William on as a student. That interaction grew into a lifetime friendship which brings us to the present exhibition sponsored by the William Meredith Foundation.It turned out that motor coordination was not the problem to be dealt with. William’s aphasia made understanding intellectual concepts difficult - negative space, anatomical accuracy, and all the technical requirements of sculpture were difficult to grasp for him. Nancy had a remarkable talent for reaching him, trapped under ice, as it were, and they did the dance teacher and student engage in when learning happens at its best. And characteristically, William moved on to other challenges with language once he had completed several rather remarkable portrait sculptures. Their friendship abided, however and resulted in years of travel to Bulgaria, Florida, New England, and Europe. Nancy had become family. Friends love her for her modesty, intellectual honesty, and spiritual authority. She really is something of a “wise woman,” and lends her opinion at bible study at the crack of dawn each Thursday morning before returning home to teach. She plans to be “roomates” with her friend Lizzy at the Columbarium at St. Columba Episcopal Church and despite the friends who have dropped off the planet lately, she remains committed to life’s pleasures. Again, as Meredith writes in “His Plans for Old Age,” He is founding a sect for the radical old,freaks you may call them but you’re wrong, who persist in being at home in the world,who just naturally feel it’s a good bind to be in, let the young feel as uncanny as they like. And another poet comes to mind when I co
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