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New Art, Environmental Theme, Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts

by Leisa A. Hammett | May 25, 2012 | Art, Nashville!, Nature

As if hanging in mid space, you're cruising imperceptibly at an altitude of 30,000 feet. You're tucked into your window seat. The sun basks your face as you peer down at Mother Earth. What you often see beneath, as you fly, especially over the midland of our...

Green Hills Art Show on Channel 5

by Leisa A. Hammett | May 24, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!

This retrospective is the largest showing of GraceArt to date. It will remain hanging at the Green Hills Library through the end of Wed., May 30. A pricelist is available at the reference desk.

Reminder! GraceArt Show Reception Sunday 5/20

by Leisa A. Hammett | May 18, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!

You're invited to the last GraceArt show of Spring 2012. Sunday, May 20, we'll host a reception from 2-4:30 p.m. at the Green Hills Library. Now showing through May 30, GraceArt: The Art of Autism ~ Grace Walker Goad, will feature the largest collection of the...

The Word and Sound Artistry of Our NPR Interview

by Leisa A. Hammett | May 17, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Motherhood, Nashville!

Her on-air signature sound belies her youthful, roundish face, her flawless complexion framed with the deep, dark, sheeny, crinkle waves pinned back at her forehead. The smooth, calming voice is the one of flawless diction, of listen-to-me-command. It is the voice of...

GraceArt: Green Hills Library, Conclusion of Our Spring Art Show Blitz (Whew!)

by Leisa A. Hammett | May 11, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Travel

Grand tally: About 2,500 miles, nearly 40 hours driving and $700 worth of fossil fuels were logged, totaled and consumed by yours truly with a sidekick or two, sometimes including Grace, during April. How that went down: the last day of March, I hung GraceArt: Grace...

Equine & Artistic Expression

by Leisa A. Hammett | May 4, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Nashville!

Some creative-thinking folks conjured up this event where I'll be speaking Sunday: In Middle Tennessee, we are very blessed to have a long-standing, highly successfully recreational and therapeutic horseback riding program for children and youth with disAbilities,...
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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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