by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 14, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
These are exciting times here at GraceArt. We've received seven solicitations, most within the last month and all within the last six months for three solo shows next year (not all yet solidified,) three out-of-town shows and as a featured artist in two books on...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 12, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood
Guest Post by "Spectrum Mom" of AutismReads.com In her recent blog post, "Forever Child," on "The Journey with Grace," Leisa writes beautifully about her Grace seeing the world from a different perspective than the college freshman in the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 7, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Technology/Blogging
We interrupt this previously scheduled ArtsFriday post here to mourn the loss of Apple/IPAD creator Steve Jobs who, Wednesday, surrendered in his long battle with pancreatic cancer. Jobs was a creatively unlimited visionary who made...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 5, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
My 17-year-old skips down a sidewalk in the middle of Vanderbilt University. Ironically, it's the very campus we drove to daily for many years of grueling early autism intervention. That was then. This is now. And seeing her like that there, the word that lit up...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 1, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
The video, which I could not later relocate on Facebook, where I saw it last night, had me howling and wiping tears. There is a video via the local news, but my experience is if I post it here, it will eventually expire. Thankfully, Nashville Mayor Dean just won...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Sep 28, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Technology/Blogging
Insomnia is not good. Mix insomnia with a smart phone? Double not good. Twice last night I was peering into my tiny device (so much so, my hand went numb holding it in the air). All the buzz on Facebook, of course, was that it's creator, Mark Zuckerberg, was about...
