GC SPJ Member's Photographs on Display at Kennedy Arts Center
Interviews with Lively Nonagenarians

by Connie Springer

Jan. 17 - March 14, 2009

Opening, January 24, 6 - 8 p.m.

Kennedy Heights Arts Center
6546 Montgomery Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45213 (513) 631-4278
www.kennedyarts.org

Dismayed by her elderly mother's debilities, writer/photographer Connie Springer asked herself "do we all end up like this if we live long enough?" After two years of photographing and interviewing twenty-eight nonagenarians (people in their 90s), Springer learned that despite losses and hardships, they continued to actively participate in their surroundings and maintain an interest in others. Some of the traits the nonagenarians had in common were thinking in terms of purpose and goals, caring about others, and keeping their minds and bodies in shape with exercise and stimulating pastimes.
Supported by a City of Cincinnati Individual Artist's Grant, Springer has assembled an exhibition of photographs and narrative of this Positively Ninety generation. The work will be on display on the second floor of the Kennedy Heights Arts Center from January 17 - March 14, 2009. A public reception will be held on Saturday, January 24 from 6 - 8 pm.

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