by Leisa A. Hammett | May 15, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Nashville!
The email account I forget to check? Last night it had an invite to this release party scheduled for this afternoon. No can do. Boo hoo! I'd already decided to post this today anyway. So, WATCH THIS! You'll be glad you did. But first: grab a hankee!...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 10, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Motherhood, Nashville!
Scene: Wednesday after school, Grace delivered freshly assembled GraceArt Notecard II Sets to Tennessee Art League on Nashville's gallery row, Fifth Avenue of the Arts next to The Arts Company. Today, she's off to Disney World with her Dad. I'm traveling...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 8, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!, Travel
Grace has six more days of traditional public school left. That's minus two for a long weekend trip to Disney World with her Dad. Graduation is May 18. Today, I'll be working with a young adult woman with autism to prepare 450 plus packets of GraceArt...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 6, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nature, Newtown, Obama/Politics, Spirituality
Two months ago I shared on "The Journey with Grace" that my artist friend Pam Jolly Haile was collecting 3,000 thumbprints to create a mandala for a project called "One." This, below, my friends, is the result of her work: Stunning, huh? Here's...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 3, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Travel
Right now GraceArt is showing coast to coast: From Seattle (HeART of the Spectrum) to the Massachusetts' Berkshires to solo in North Carolina (The Artery Gallery, Greensboro, extended through May 9,) to down home here in Nashville. Both the shows at the Good...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 26, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Travel
Today I’m joining my Nashville friend, Courtney Taylor Evans, of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, in coaching parents and adults with disAbilites on how to write their story via Tennessee’s Kindred Stories project. (I’ve one on their website somewhere....
