When a parent gets Alzheimer’s disease, children can face not only the pain of watching a loved one’s faculties disintegrate, but the burden of providing, or paying for, care.

When John Thorndike’s father, Joe Thorndike, began to suffer from Alzheimer’s, John and his siblings made a decision – rather than pay a caregiver to tend their father, or put him in a home, they would use their father’s assets to pay John (who writes, farms and owns rental properties in the Athens area) a salary to move into his father’s Cape Cod, Mass. home and make caring for him his full-time job.

Local artist Pat Mitchell is working in collaboration with Passion Works Studio to create an alternative and unique art project to be on display in January.

The Ohio Arts Council, a state-funded agency that supports art experiences in Ohio communities, is sponsoring Mitchell’s involvement with Passion Works. Mitchell has traveled to various places both in Ohio and elsewhere through the program. Her area of specialization, she said, is working with mixed media, and acting as an artist consultant for organizations to help design programs and build studios.

The Ohio University chapter of the NPPA (National Press Photographers Association) is presenting an evening with the Athens Photographic Project.

This Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Walter Hall room 145, the Athens Photographic Project artists and staff will discuss the impact that their award-winning photography program has had on personal lives, the region, and on the visual representation of mental-health conditions.

The Ridges Building 19 may seem like an unlikely place for an art exhibit, but Ohio University Planner Pam Callahan has transformed its walls into a timeline of campus maps collected from the OU Archives.

Callahan, who retired last week, says she has been collecting the maps for about five years. She received an architecture degree from OU and has worked at the university for more than 25 years.