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For Sidney Aldridge Bonnet ’75, a retired pediatric hospitalist turned artist, landscape painting is more than a creative outlet—it is her way to give back to a deeply personal cause. For 22 years, Sidney’s son John, who has cerebral palsy and developmental delays, has lived at Marbridge, a nonprofit residential community in Manchaca, Texas. Since 1953, Marbridge has offered transitional and lifetime care for adults with developmental disabilities. John moved there right after high school. “The community is extraordinary,” Sidney says. “I have never seen a culture that is so beautiful and accepting.”
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Sometimes change needs to start with something small. Perhaps even a tiny butterfly the size of your thumbnail. “I realized if I could convince people to just plant a plant that a butterfly might visit, that starts them on the road to becoming nurturers of nature,” says Mary Benton ’80, founder of Bound by Beauty and president of GROW (Gardeners Restoring Our World) Miami.
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Documentary director Jennifer Redfearn DS ’03 illuminates social issues through “the humanity of the people who are at the center,” she says. The 2024 Guggenheim Fellow’s work has a clear theme: curiosity. Curiosity about the natural world led her to an environmental studies major at Wellesley. Though Jennifer found “becoming a scientist wasn’t the best fit for the way my curiosity worked,” taking photography and film gave her new ways to explore.