Oh my! It's 2 p.m. here and not only did I not get this prepublished per usual, I'm just now writing today's second spring break post and that's because all that's been going down here in GraceArtLand in the last week.
Saturday: Hung Grace's 8' by 5' mural and small watercolors (with retro pricing) at Hot and Cold coffee shop, next to Fido's in prep for tonight's First Thursday Hillsboro Village Art Walk, April 5, 5-8 p.m. Please stop by! If you don't make tonight, no worries: you can see GraceArt there through the end of the month. Then the mural will go to the home of a Vanderbilt employee who purchased it to hang in her cathedral-ceiling-ed great room.
Sunday: Drove to Chattanooga where we took in the lovely outdoor riverside sculpture art before leaving on Monday to deliver more GraceArt to the McMinn County Living Heritage Museum in Athens, Tenn. This small town and museum will host us for their third year of an autism artist show for National Autism Awareness Month. Too cool, huh?!
Grace has been in camp the rest of this spring break week as I've worked feverishly with a little play thrown in. The last two nights, with the help of kind, dear friends, I've folded half of 1,250 cards and created packages of 10 cards to sell at the three spring GraceArt shows. The new GraceArt NoteCard Series II will have a fifth bonus design. (All sales from cards cover GraceArt expenses. Sales from paintings going into her future independent living account.)
Late this morning, WSMV Channel 4 reporter Dennis Ferrier was in my home for an interview that will air tonight. Channel 2 will feature my friend Dena Gassner and also another friend who is helping tell the truth about a private school scandal. I've also been emailing jpegs of GraceArt to Dennis and Tennessean reporter Jessica Bliss, who will feature autism arts next Tuesday, I was told.
Last, the Green Hills Library will show a more comprehensive and current body of work, (also being shown in Athens,) that entire month with a May 20, 2-4:30 show. The posters look great. I'll be sharing that too, if possible.
It's April, folks. It's always crazy. This year more so. And part of the extra activity includes Nashville's Fabulous Film Festival coming up in a few weeks, too. More on that, too, coming soon.
Happy Easter all! May our entire planet experience a rebirth of the spirit as we make a needed shift into 2012 and beyond.
Apologies dear readers for the lack of links above. Now I'm cooking a meal to stuff Grace so she won't eat too much Jenni's Ice Cream at Hot & Cold tonight and must tend to www.GraceGoad.com. You can find more details about the above art shows on Grace Goad | Artist Facebook page, which is public and also mine, Leisa Hammett. And, here is the public exhibition event page. GraceArt 2012, Art Exhibitions: Grace Walker Goad ~ The Art of Autism. Related Journey with Grace stories on all of the above are: Announcing GraceArt 2012… and GraceArt Card Series Premiering…
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