Clairvoyant Visions and Dreams of Peace: The Art of Betty La Duke by Gloria Orenstein, Femspec Issue 16.1

Exemplifying many of the concepts embedded in our issue’s focus on Great Age, Betty La Duke, now at eighty-two, has been making art that celebrates the life force in human, animal, and plant dwellers on our planet as she traveled the world “From the Bronx to Timbuktu” (her way of describing the arc of her journey) all of her adult life. During her artistic pilgrimages across the globe for the last six decades, she has visited many cultures and painted the lives of indigenous peoples as a cr...