Name/Title
Cypress Golden Gate - Jean Wirth - Field of Flowers - 2019Description
Jean Wirth
“Field of Flowers”
Cypress Golden Gate
A native San Franciscan, Jean is happy to be back in the neighborhood where she grew up. The daughter of a motorcycle policeman and a secretary, she has a twin sister, Joan.
Jean was a champion competitive swimmer in her youth and grew up with a passion for sports and outdoors. She majored in physical education at Ohio State University, and has worked with both seniors and young people, mainly teaching swimming and leading hikes.
She learned a lot from the seniors, she says, but it was really the children—her students at a school for the blind—who taught her the most. She loves to talk about her experiences when she was doing her doctoral dissertation on teaching movement to blind children. It was the students who taught her how to read braille.
Jean has never painted before. "I love this class," she says with a smile. "If you make a mistake, it's okay. You just paint over it. If I weren't here, I never would have learned how to paint."
ART WITH ELDERS
2019 27th Annual Art With Elders Exhibit
