by Leisa A. Hammett | May 26, 2011 | Art
"Art imitating Life?" Featured here, artist Lisa Ernst work, "Raspberries." (Acrylic on canvas.) When I received Ernst's newsletter several months back, this lush still life screamed SUMMER! to me. May you enjoy feasting your visual...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 20, 2011 | Art, Nashville!, Spirituality, Travel
More than 270 Shaker art objects—furniture, drawings, household objects, textiles, baskets and kitchen implements–debut at Nashville's Frist Center for the Visual Arts Friday, May 20. "Gather Up the Fragments" focuses upon the collection of...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 2, 2011 | Art
What would happen if we stopped lowering our expectations of young people, and instead set a very high bar for them? So high, in fact, that most adults would love to have the tools to vault over that bar themselves? That's exactly what "A Novel...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 29, 2011 | Art, Nashville Flood, Nashville!, Nature
The memories are painfully tender: One year ago Saturday and Sunday, April 30 and May 1, the heavens above Nashville flung open and remained gapingly stuck, dumping 19 inches of rain. A 1,000 year flood we had. Here are a just a couple of posts from #NashvilleFlood:...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 27, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Motherhood
It was a rough morning that started out good enough. Grace had an 8:15 dental appointment, so we slept in until 6:30. For many years, we literally had to drug her with a dentist-prescribed medication so that she could tolerate having her teeth cleaned. After her...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 22, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
Big(er) cities should have everything, right? I'm always amazed when some tucked away pocket in my adopted homestate of Tennessee has some innovative service that our capitol city, Nashville, does not. One such case would be the work that Cookeville area...
