January 8, 2016
This morning I had the honor of presenting two $500 checks to two art teachers in Springfield. I am a member of the Springfield Ceramics and Crafts Club. My job is as Youth Art Outreach chairperson. The club members feel that encouraging the love of art and crafts among the youth of Springfield is important. So the club offers two Youth Art Outreach grants each year. Our first two recipients were Maggie Perkins, art teacher at Ball Charter School, and Kristin Sowinski Langer, art teacher at Washington Middle School. Maggie will be creating a ceramics unit across multiple grade levels and Kristin will be creating a batik unit for the 7th grade students. Both teachers were thrilled to have the funds to give their students extra creative opportunities. I was thrilled to have a small part in helping with their vision.
Last night I learned that my rusty hat, The State of the Union, has been accepted as a piece to be shown at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. That is wonderful news and I am looking forward to seeing that special art show.
I used to say that I would be an artist when pigs flew. My friend, Cathy Hendrickson Hathaway, gave me a flying pig (which flaps his wings and flies in circles) for my studio. Whenever something wonderful happens, artistically speaking, she says, "The pigs are flying." Well, the last two weeks have been amazing (Cloth, Paper, Scissors blog, two entries accepted into Incite 4, a one-woman show for two months at the Chatham Library, and an entry accepted into the APLM), so I have to agree--The pigs are flying!!
