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About Nancy Gershman of Art For Your Sake

Thanks to the transformative power of digital photo manipulation, memory artist Nancy Gershman makes dreams-to-order. Her specialty is visualizing "preferred stories" and making "pictures of a memory for which you have no photos." As a creative practitioner, Gershman works with individuals coping with loss and regrets, to create "prescriptive" photomontages for healing.

Gershman’s published work has appeared in Annals of American Psychotherapy; Robert Neimeyer’s compendium, “Techniques of Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved“ (Vol. 1 and 2); therapist Courtney Armstrong’s “Transforming Traumatic Grief: Six Steps to Move from Grief To Peace;” The Journal of Palliative Care;  Advance for Nurses and Hektoen International: Journal of Medical Humanities.

Past exhibitions include solo shows at Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago; University of Chicago Medical Center; NYU Langone Medical Center and University of Rochester Medical Center.

As one client recalls, “Nancy sat down with me and reviewed family albums to pick photos. She has tremendous empathy and a true artist’s eye for patterns … Just working with her on the selection began to break up my old, locked-in ways of relating to the photos.”