Anne davis basting biography

Anne Basting is a writer, artist and advocate for the power of creativity to change lives and transform systems. She is Emerita Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and Founder of the award-winning non-profit , which inspires and supports the integration of creativity and meaning-making into care systems.

Her writing and large-scale public performances have helped shape an international movement to extend creative and meaningful expression from childhood, where it is expected, through to late life, where it has been too long withheld.

Basting is author of numerous articles and four books, Creative Care: A Revolutionary Approach to Dementia and Elder Care (Harper One, ),  The Penelope Project: An Arts-based Odyssey to Change Elder-care (University of Iowa Press, ) co-edited with Maureen Towey and Ellie Rose; Forget Memory: Creating better lives for people with dementia () and The Stages of Age: Performing Age in Contemporary American Cul