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Wishing Well: Sometimes Graduation Never Arrives

by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 14, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!

Life is a series of graduations, and motherhood, even more so a myriad. Birth mothers graduate from a less complicated life to nine months of anticipation to caretaker of the minutiae ad nauseum of the newborn delight of their heart. Those wee ones graduate from the...

“Giving Motherhood a Microphone” #LTYMnashville, Apr. 26, 7 PM, TPAC

by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 8, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging

Promise you this: You're gonna laugh. You're gonna cry. And you're gonna be really, really sorry if you miss Nashville's Sat., April 26, 7PM TPAC Polk Theater premiere of "Listen to Your Mother." Nashville was one of 32 cities, nationwide,...

Weekend ARTism Shows: Grace Walker Goad, Tenn. Art League, 4/4-5, Plus

by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 31, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability, Motherhood, Nashville!

You're invited ~*Small But Mighty; The Art of Autism: Grace Walker Goad Poston Outreach Gallery, Tennessee Art League, downtown Nashville's 5th Avenue of the Arts Opening Reception: Fri., Apr. 4, 6-8 PM, featuring the work of the **Inaugural Artist's...

*Small But Mighty

by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 10, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!

Mighty. In like a lion. March. Like last spring and the spring before, GraceArt's schedule becomes Mighty-er. So for now, I'm leaving you with this. Now go get your calendar. You're invited"  

“For the Love of Dogs,” A Film About A Boy, Family, Dogs & Asperger’s

by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 3, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability

Three-plus minutes. Grab a hankie. This good. This is real. To view on filmscreen, which you'll need to read the captions click on the large, blue words describing the film below:    To read how this film came to be, see this blog...

Dogwood

by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 10, 2014 | Art, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality

A sentinel. She stands. Each morning, other side frigid window panes. A single, shriveled leaf borne, sole remains from bounty once red. Grey. Shorn of cover, rising grace. Sharing border of scalloped fence, crammed Cedar triplets, crowned with remnant of last snow...
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GRACE GOAD | AUTISM ART:

Shimai Gallery of Contemporary Craft
8400 Highway 100, Nashville, Tenn.
(Little cottage in the far corner of the Loveless Cafe complex.)

FEATURED POSTS

  • Blossoming: All New Grace Goad Works, Shimai Gallery
  • Message of the Mammoth Moth: Grace in the Time of Corona
  • Year Two—Still Seeking the Resurrection: Grace in the Time of Corona
  • Lessons of the Lenten Roses: Grace in the Time of Corona
  • Self-Love on V-Day: Grace in the Time of Corona

FROM HEARTACHE TO HOPE

From Heartache to Hope: middle tennessee families living with autism, a book by Leisa A. Hammett & photographer Rebekah Pope. Click here for more info plus ordering details.

Grace Goad Autism Art

ABOUT LEISA HAMMETT

Hi! I’m a writer and a speaker, and I represent the art of my young adult daughter, Grace Goad, who has autism. We’ve been featured on The View, Al Jazeera America, and in numerous television, radio, magazine, newspaper, and online features. I’ve written one book about autism and I’m working on spiritual memoir about living with autism. Hope you’ll hang out here online with us.

 

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