Art Transcends. See for Yourself:
Art is a window to the potential and beauty of individuals with disAbilities. Art whispers, lures, and transforms the heart. Art seduces the eyes then burrows into the heart’s core truth, transcending the societal barriers of stereotypes and labels. The first...
Art Tank: Building a Community of Support
Sunday, I cried a lot. Not tears of sadness and pain, but outpourings of joy. The night before, Shimai Pottery & Gifts, in their "Studio Shimai" gallery, on the grounds of the nationally famous Loveless Cafe ,hosted EMERGING: Three Young Artists with...
Art & disAbility: Our Story and Sharing the Stage @ Shimai
Once upon a time, a three-year-old girl, named Grace Walker Goad, was diagnosed with autism. Her family enrolled their only child in all the typical, standard early-childhood interventions of the late 90s: group, private, and public school speech/language...
Lessons in Culture, Community and Love: Our International Visitors
Growing up, our family was the go-to hosts for our faith community's visiting speakers. Often the guests were international. Many years have passed—three decades—since I hosted international visitors, the last time being in my 20s while I lived in Atlanta. I had...
“HI HELEN!
Seeing pictures of myself at this week's art event, I thought it time to hit "publish" on this post written earlier this summer. Never one to routinely look at others and guess their age, I have begun to spot the signs and see the changes in women from 30 to 40 to 50....
Update: Grace Goad Autism Art
There's four opportunities to see and purchase the art of Grace Walker Goad this summer and fall. 1) Tomorrow, Thursday, August 7, come see us at the outdoor market of Green Hills' Whole Foods Market, 4-7 PM. We're continuing our tradition started last fall of...
Expectations: A Parenting Pitfall
Life happens to you while you're busy making other plans." ~ John Lennon Whether a mother or father has one child or five, whether their sons and daughters are "typically developing" or have a disAbility, in our culture, we tend to share a certain parenting pitfall:...
