Aging Artfully

Living to 100?

“Old age is hot right now…they don’t know what to do with us!!” says Isabel Ferguson, one of the women featured in Amy Gorman’s Aging Artfully. Based on interviews of inspirational artists, musicians and dancers 85–105 living with zest in the San Francisco Bay area, Aging Artfully captures historical memories of the last century as the lives and creative processes of each artist unfold. Meet Dorothy Takahashi Toy, 89, an Asian American, who tap danced her way into the white world and broke racial barriers, to Lily Hearst, a Viennese pianist who played scales and pieces daily until she died at 107. The 12 positive multi-ethnic role models portrayed in Aging Artfully have no time for complaining.