Shannon Simcox

‘Lint Lady’ works portray parents, memory loss

“When I do portraits with it, the edges are fuzzy, like memory, which fades over time.”

Illuminating Action Potential

Greg Dunn spent years studying the human brain, only to spend as long trying to depict it in art.

Making Sense of Alzheimer’s is a creative space for people to understand the past, present and future of Alzheimer’s disease. It is an evolving forum, a gallery of ideas, a museum without walls.

Making Sense of Alzheimer’s features stories and ideas that tackle the many and changing understanding of what Alzheimer’s disease is and how we try to make sense of it in our own lives. The voices of patients, scientists, writers, caregivers, students, singers, doctors, and artists are expressed here through words, images and sounds.

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