Last Stop

Last StopDrawing on first hand experience as a participant observer in a skilled nursing facility Last Stop records the vicissitudes of care in an institutional setting for people with advanced dementia and Parkinsons. The erosion of mind and memory is mirrored in the nursing homes location, a small town in Upstate New York hollowed out by the loss of its economic base. Snapshots of interactions between residents and staff, residents and their partners, are at

Sherman uses Sartre's first-person

including work from the past decade and a new section dedicated to artist-initiated organizations and innovative models for new institutions

from social and environmental sustainability to integrated management of pests and diseases based on agroecological principles

throwing out her long wooden rake to its farthest extent and drawing it back to her until she had gathered sufficient strands into a heap

Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies

especially women

While walking in the woods near their rural estate

fire blight

and its rural landscapes

a methodological approach

While posing familiar questions

’” Traveling across Egypt alone