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Shizen Design handmade papers are in stock!

All Shizen Papers are 100% recycled made from cotton scraps from the Indian Garment industry.  Shizen (means 'Nature' in Japanese) offers a wide range of unique and exotic Handmade Papers.
For Alzheimer’s Patients,  Art’s Therapeutic Effects Are Transformative  In the 1990s, Berna Huebner was struggling to communicate with her mother, the painter Hilda Gorenstein, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. “I asked, ‘Mom, do you want to paint?’” says Huebner, who heads a Chicago charitable foundation. “And her eyes opened up and she said, ‘Yes, I remember better when I paint.’” Gorenstein, a marine artist who had once painted murals at a 1933– 1934 Chicago World’s Fair, “wasn’t able to focus at all,” remembers Huebner. “I thought it was her hearing. I called her doctor, and without even blinking he said, ‘Why don't you call her old school and get some students to paint with her?’” Gorenstein subsequently began to paint with a handful of students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her alma mater. After working with a student for several weeks she began to paint again. “It struck a chord,” adds Huebner. Fast forward to 1999, and Huebner f
  Art & Frame of Sarasota Presents:  2017 Winter Hall Gallery Art Show Now through January 18, 2018