Kindness and Aging (Common Ground Series) with Jane Callister and Dr. Lené Levy-Storms (Webinar)

Kindness and Aging pairs Jane Callister, artist and professor in the Art Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara in conversation with Dr. Lené Levy-Storms, Hartford Faculty Scholar Departments of Social Welfare and Medicine/Geriatrics, Bedari Kindness Institute, University of California, Los Angeles.

Join us as they discuss concepts of kindness and its implementation in our communal world.

Callister will address “kindness” as a theme in contemporary art practices and her new body of work It Started with a Crocofish created in collaboration with her father. Levy-Storms’ research addresses the role “kindness” as it intersects with modes of communication and caregiving to older adults living with Alzheimer’s and chronic disease and optimizing urban spaces for the well-being of the low-income community elders.

Jane Callister is a professor in the art department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was born on the Isle of Man and is now a Southern California-based artist who works across the mediums of painting, sculpture, drawing and installation.

Lené Levy-Storms is an associate professor in the Luskin School of Public Affairs, Department of Social Welfare at the Geffen School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles and serves on the advisory board for the Bedari Kindness Institute.

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