One Hundred over 100
Photographs by Paul Boyer
Opening Reception
Friday, May 7
5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Exhibit continues
through June 30
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September 24 through
October 30.
Entry drop-off: September 13
Part of the fifth annual Sacred Arts Festival. Visit the festival website for entry forms and details.
Welcome to The Gallery at St. Mark's! We've been lucky each fall to have wonderful art gracing the walls of the church at the annual Sacred Arts Festival, and now, through generous donations we were able to purchase track lighting which makes the space more able to support ongoing art exhibits.
Check back as we develop the page...soon there will be calls for entry and exhibit guidelines. In the meantime, call C. Scott Hagler, 3rd Ave. Arts Executive Director, at 247-1129, ext. 14 or e-mail Scott@3rdAveArts.org.
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You are cordially invited
to an Artist's Reception for
Paul Boyer
Photographs from the book One Hundred over 100Friday, May 7 • 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Exhibit continues through June 30
Durango photographer Paul Boyer will exhibit a sampling of photographs from his book, One Hundred over 100: Moments with One Hundred North American Centenarians, at The Gallery at St. Mark's. The public is invited to an opening reception Friday, May 7 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. The exhibit, which continues through June, commemorates the 20th anniversary of the 1990 release of the book. The One Hundred over 100 project features 100 men and women – all over 100 years old – from throughout the United States and Canada. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m to 4:00 p.m.
The project was the brainchild of writer Jim Heynen, who invited Boyer onto the project as the photographer. The two travelled together periodically from 1987 to 1989, always interviewing and photographing the subjects simultaneously. The people highlighted in the book were chosen from those who responded to press releases that appeared in various newspapers around the country. There was no attempt to create a scientific sampling of centenarians; the authors were only interested in putting together a group that illustrated diversity in lifestyles and backgrounds.
The people in the book lived through a dynamic period of history, from the end of the Civil War, up through 1989. One of the gentlemen was born in 1867, just two years after the end of the Civil War. He also lived to be the oldest man in the country when he died at the age of 125. Another woman, the daughter of a Virginia slave, taught herself to read by playing school with the white children on the plantation. Another man, a portrait artist, spent his centenarian years becoming the leading fundraiser for the American Heart Association in the Miami Beach area. There are two married couples in the book, with both of the spouses over 100.
The centenarians included drinkers, smokers, social do-gooders, heart-attack victims and cancer survivors. They lived through the Spanish Influenza epidemic. They lived through two world wars. And they lived through the agonies of societies coming to grips with racist attitudes. A surprising number of the people in the book were still leading active lives when they were interviewed and photographed. As author Jim Heynen wrote in his Introduction, "May this book diminish your fear of aging."
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