Keeping the Dream Alive: A Reflection on the Art of Harriet Lorence Nesbitt

Keeping the Dream Alive contains full-color images of Harriet Lorence Nesbitts art giving an overview of her unique life and style. This monographic reflection explores the historical context of Nesbitts work. William David Spencers afterword contextualizes Harriets vision as an advocate for the mentally ill an artist and a political columnist describing how and why Harriets life and art pulsed with vibrancy. As a psychologist and chaplain who counsels those in crisis daily I wholeheartedly endorse Keeping the Dream Alive in its effort to benefit mentally ill youth. To say that Harriet was colorful is an understatement. Keeping the Dream Alive is absolutely necessary! --Susan Stafford Chaplain and founder of Wheel of Grace Harriet Lorence Nesbitt faithfully attended Media Fellowship Internationals New York City luncheons hosted by our mutual friend Michael P. Grace II. I am endorsing Keeping the Dream Alive in its effort to benefit mentally ill youth and in loving memory of Harriet and Michael two wonderful Christians who made a difference! --Robert Rieth Media Fellowship International Kenmore Washington Harriet Nesbitt ran lifes race with passion. She left us with a dream in her heart: to sell her magnificent larger-than-life breathtaking paintings to help support the mentally ill. . . . Her legacy lives on through her charitable heart that criss-crossed every walk of life. . . . A moment I will never forget is when I first laid eyes on one of her most revered paintings--President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacquelyn Kennedy. It is forever etched in my mind and so is Harriet and the New York memories spent with this unique and colorful woman. --April Shenandoah author speaker and Ambassador of Prayer Branson Missouri Jeanne C. DeFazio is the editor of the following Wipf and Stock publications: Berkeley Street Theatre: How Improvisation and Street Theatre Emerged as a Christian Outreach to the Culture of the Time coeditor of Redeeming the Screens and Empowering English Language Learners with William David Spencer and Creative Ways to Build Christian Community with John P. Lathrop. She also co-authored with Teresa Flowers How to Have an Attitude of Gratitude on the Night Shift.