Ginny Ferrant Perry brings Not Forgotten, a portrait series honoring nursing home residents, to Da Vinci Art Alliance in South Philadelphia from February 1 through 19. The exhibition features ink, paint, and pastel portraits drawn from years of volunteer work in care facilities, where Ginny Ferrant Perry built relationships with patients living with Alzheimer’s and hospice conditions. Every patient, eventually subject, yearned for their legacy to be remembered. Not Forgotten is that memorial — rendered in a medium that carries the weight of the hand that made it.

Ginny Ferrant Perry’s Process: From Volunteer to Artist

The power of Not Forgotten starts with how Ginny Ferrant Perry arrived at the work. She did not show up with a sketchbook. She showed up as a volunteer — listening to stories, sitting with residents through difficult afternoons, building trust over months and years before ever picking up a pencil. That investment of time is visible in the portraits.

The faces in Not Forgotten are not generic studies of old age. They are specific people with specific histories, rendered with an intimacy that only comes from sustained attention. The combination of ink, paint, and pastel gives each piece a textural depth that photographs cannot replicate — the marks carry the physical evidence of the artist’s presence, which mirrors the presence she offered each subject.

Not Forgotten brings needed attention to elderly community members who reside in nursing homes and serves as an uplifting reminder that there is a significant purpose behind every life. The portraits do not sentimentalize aging or illness. They hold their subjects with dignity and directness — the kind of looking that most people outside of care facilities never get to practice. Philadelphia’s gallery community has long supported work that connects personal narrative to broader social questions, and Ginny Ferrant Perry’s project sits at that intersection with uncommon emotional clarity. In a city where public and gallery art increasingly addresses systemic invisibility, Not Forgotten makes the case through portraiture — one face at a time.

Ginny Ferrant Perry at Da Vinci Art Alliance: Details

The opening reception for Ginny Ferrant Perry’s Not Forgotten at Da Vinci Art Alliance is Saturday, February 4, from 4 to 7 p.m. The exhibition runs February 1 through 19 at 704 Catharine Street in Philadelphia. Da Vinci Art Alliance is one of the oldest member-run galleries in the country, and its South Philadelphia location has been a launchpad for artists working at the intersection of craft, community, and social practice for decades. Not Forgotten is not to be missed.

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