Transforming Traumatic Grief by Courtney Armstrong
ARTEMICTA PRESS:
In the chapter of her latest book, Transforming Traumatic Grief: Six Steps to Move from Grief to Peace After the Sudden or Violent Death of a Loved One entitled "Making…
Association of Personal Historians: "Cover Art: It's Not Window Dressing"
ASSOCIATION OF PERSONAL HISTORIANS newsletter:
In the Fall 2011 Association of Personal Historians newsletter, legacy artist Nancy Gershman speaks with APH artists and book designers about the value of embedding meaning into cover art for…
Hektoen International: "The Fisherman's Lasagna"
HEKTOEN INTERNATIONAL
A psychiatric nurse with an eating disorder exacts a promise from her husband that he eat healthier if she agrees to eat richer (i.e. calories). In Nancy Gershman's prescriptive photomontage…
"Prescriptive Photomontage" by Nancy Gershman (Annals of American Psychotherapy)
ANNALS OF AMERICAN PSYCHOTHERAPY:
Memory artist, Nancy Gershman and Dr. Jenna Baddeley (a specialist in clinical and social/personality psychology) describe the protocol behind prescriptive photomontage, in this case study of a bereaved mother who finds…
Hektoen International: "Campaigning for Craig"
HEKTOEN INTERNATIONAL: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL HUMANITIES
The subject of how Craig died no longer was the elephant in the room after digital artist Nancy Gershman created a prescriptive photomontage for his father, Dale. In this article…
Living With Loss: "Adrian, Patron Saint of the Castlebuilders"
LIVING WITH LOSS MAGAZINE:
Seventeen-year old Adrian had a premonition that she would live in a Heaven that resembled Narnia. In this story, her mother retraces those early visions and describes how she uses…
Advance for Nurses
ADVANCE FOR NURSES MAGAZINE
Rachel Christophe Baker, Director of Cultural and Educational Development at The Hektoen Institute of Medicine (Chicago) writes about the role positive visualization plays in the prescriptive photomontages created by Nancy…
Hektoen International: "Lost Babies"
HEKTOEN INTERNATIONAL:
Creating a 3D photo sculpture from a Healing Dreamscape, prescriptive artist Nancy Gershman enabled this mother to finally display a portrait of the deceased daughter she lost decades ago next…
Living With Loss: "Dreamscaping" by Nancy Gershman
LIVING WITH LOSS MAGAZINE:
Digital artist Nancy Gershman describes how a photomontage valentine in black and white from a wife to her husband not only became a keepsake of their annual pilgrimmage to Disneyland…
Chicago Jewish New: "Pictures That Heal"
CHICAGO JEWISH NEWS:
Chicago Jewish News Editor Pauline Dubkin Yearwood probes how Nancy Gershman’s prescriptive photomontages have the capacity to "speak to you and give you a new meaning every day. Like a…
Chicago Sun-Times "Art With Power To Heal"
SUN-TIMES NEWS GROUP
Staff Writer Patrick Butler explains why the work of Nancy Gershman, a prescriptive photomontage artist, requires “the insight of a layout designer, stage director, choreographer - and more than the…