Eldercare Art Residency

Eldercare Intervention, 2011 - 2018

In 2011, while studying sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Keith intervened to care for his nonagenarian great aunt, Auntie Sister. Over the next seven years, they collaborated to turn her childhood home into a geriatric eco-art residency to support Auntie's desire to age in place and Keith's social sculpture research. 

Through gardening, investigating everyday infrastructure, archival research, oral history, and found object sculpture the eldercare residency yielded a plethora of creative material. Keith exhibited his work twice at the Braintree Historical Society. Auntie Sister passed away peacefully in her home at 99 years old.

In 2018, Keith won the Real Art Award, resulting in a 2019 museum exhibition composed of materials from Auntie's house at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. In 2020, Keith exhibited another installation of materials from Auntie's house. Since then, he has been writing an eldercare climate memoir based on her home's infrastructure. 

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