This is what came up when I 'googled' my mother:
http://www.charitywire.com/charity96/01595.html
At 65, she is feeling like she hasn't contributed to society because she wasn't a pension-earning professional... A tragic falsehood. Her volunteer work (only a fraction of it is described in the article), her intellegent ethics and her contribution as a musician and music instructor has made our world a better place. She has enriched the lives of many.
How many others are feeling this way?

Endearing Enduring, 2004
Gallery installation including: 6:42 min. video loop (DVD), hand-made 'refugee blanket', toy weapons, sticks, industrial sewing machine.

See a sample of the video in Endearing Enduring here:
Download Quicktime Movie file

Peace Tense is an art exhibit that opens on Thursday, April 22 (8 pm) at the Canadian Memorial Centre for Peace at 1825 West 16th Avenue in Vancouver. Also on Thursday (3 pm), the artists will be joined by Leah Decter and Sima Elizabeth Shefrin for a forum called Mining the Community, Artists at Work. The forum will be a discussion about art, artists and community action.
Virginia Baldwin, Kriss Boggild, Lois Klassen and Brenna Maag are the artists whose work in Peace Tense offers a response to the pressence of military action and violence in the midst of their apparently peaceful lives.

If you can't attend the exhibit, you can download a 4 page colour brochure about the artists and their work, here:
brochure.pdf

(PS My artwork in this exhibit is a video-based installation called Endearing Enduring. I will be uploading a sample of the video on this site soon.)