Parcel Post: Creative Exchanges Between Older Adults in North Carolina
2009-10
A project of the Center for Creative Aging – North Carolina
6 sites / 60 participating artists / 60 collaborative art parcels /
12 weeks – an experiment in creative engagement
Cardboard boxes, paint, variety of papers and fabrics, markers
Participating Sites:
Adult Center for Enrichment at River Landing, Colfax, Guilford County
Autumn Care of Biscoe, Biscoe, Montgomery County
Grace Martin Harwell Senior Center, Washington, Beaufort County
Pitt County Senior Center, Greenville, Pitt County
Universal Healthcare of Ramseur, Ramseur, Randolph County
Wayne County Senior Center, Goldsboro, Wayne County
Exhibition Venues and Dates:
City Arts at the Greensboro Cultural Arts Center, Greensboro
Exhibition May 6 – 28 2010
Beaufort County Arts Council, Washington
September 2 – October 13 2010
Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge, Greenville
Jan 7 – 29 2011
Arts Council of Wayne County, Goldsboro
March 3 – April 15 2011
Box 9: Ruth Ingram, Lorraine Hodges, Larry Turne
Box 11: Irene Saunders, Lucy Wilson, Jesse Boyd
Box 12: Ruby Estridge, Margaret Bell, Ricky Lawson, William Moore
Box 15: Becky Bowman, Sara Brown, Dwight Angel
Box 19: Joyce Dorsett, Audrey Johnson, Dwight Angel, Linda Richardson
Box 20: Ruby Lanier, Hattie Batts, Joquita Mayfield
Box 22: Marie Crisco, Mamie Herring, Margaret Pittillo, Ricky Lawson
Box 34: Bynum Owens, Glenda Barnes, Frances Hancock, Judy Jones
Box 35: Irene Brewer, Merritt Clark, Sonia Lopez
Box 38: Amelia Sanchez, Margaret Pittillo, Pat Carlson, Betty Langley
Box 43: Grace Rue, Joyce Dorsett, Amelia Sanchez, Joquita Mayfield
Box 45: Charles Mason, Susie Kirk, Hattie Batts, Margaret Pittillo
Box 46: Toni Reiner, Dick Osborne, Amanda Mosley, Pat Murray, Tom Ragan,
Sara Brown
Box 59: Marie Crisco, Patricia Clemons, Herman Ashford
Box 60: Mamie Herring, Ruth Morton, Betty Langley, Bynum Owens
Pat Murray
Alberta Gainey
Bill Moore
Bill Moore, hard at work on his new box
Linda Richardson
Merritt Clark (L) and Charles Mason (R)
Group shot
Group shot with Zorada Knapp in the foreground
Grace Rue
Betty Langley
Group Shot
Group Shot
Sara Brown (L) working alongside Ruth Morton (R)
Irene Brewer (R) in discussion with Connie Greene (L)
Larry Turner
Willie Boddy
Pat Carlson
Glenda Barnes
Margaret Pittillo reading from her newly arrived Box Stories, with Julie Allred (center) and Becky Bowman (R).
Joyce Dorsett
Group shot
Hattie Batts
Liz Dawson (L), Lorraine Hodges (middle), Elnora Ward (R)
