Name/Title
On Lok Peralta - Nordmann Fernandez - Adriana - 2019Description
Nordmann Fernandez
“Adriana”
On Lok Lifeways Peralta
Born in San Salvador in 1939, Nordmann likes to explain that his father, a primary school teacher, studied a lot of classical European literature and gave all his eleven children unusual names. Like his father, he too has a passion for reading.
Nordmann has university degrees in law and business administration and worked in law offices and government for many years. He proudly explains that it was his historical research on Luis Vergara Ahumada that helped put an image the Chilean artist's "Primer Grito de Independencia" on Salvadoran currency. The father of six, he came to the U.S. eleven years ago to join his daughter in Redwood City and now lives with his son in Fremont. He has eight grandchildren.
"I haven't been a saint, nor a wise man," says this elder artist with a great sense of humor, "but I respect God and His creation." He likes to serve others and enjoys dancing.
Nordmann's AWE classes are his first exposure to making art himself but he's patient with it. Like Confucius advised, he said, I'm trying to "discover beauty in everything."
ART WITH ELDERS
2019 27th Annual Art With Elders Exhibit
