Anne Basting is among Milwaukee’s most noteworthy artists and scholars. Her work leverages imagination and creativity to transform people’s lives, particularly people with cognitive challenges such as dementia and the caregivers who work with them. She’s spent more than 20 years bringing artists into places like nursing homes, infusing the very practice of care with transformative art experiences. She’s written three books and nearly a dozen plays. “Finding Penelope,” for instance, was a play inspired by the character of Penelope in Homer’s “Odyssey.” It was created during a yearlong intergenerational collaboration at a Milwaukee care facility. She is the founder and president of TimeSlips Creative Storytelling, a nonprofit that connects artists and caregivers around the world. She is an internationally known adviser in the emerging field of community-based creative care. Basting was the founding director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Center on Age and Community for a decade and now coordinates the Arts and Social Entrepreneurship Certificate program at UWM. Her new book, “Creative Care,” will be published this year. Anne was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016 and is also the recipient of the Ashoka, Rockefeller and Brookdale fellowships, the Randy Martin Spirit Award and numerous major grants.