My oldest granddaughter, age 16, took a 3-week drawing class at St. Francis University this summer as part of their Pre-college High School Summer Art Academy. Today we, the family, attended the certificate ceremony and got to see the art work of all of the students. There were at least 60 students involved. Each student had two or three works on display and I was really impressed with the quality of what I saw. The areas represented included drawing, painting, photography and animation, and, while I admit to some prejudice, I thought my granddaughter's drawings were equal in quality to everything else on display. The head of the art department spoke briefly and explained that the work the students did was intended to be college level and work that they could keep in their portfolio and use in their college application package.
Two weeks ago I got to see a lot of my son's art work when he displayed it at the Library Art Fair. Now, after seeing my granddaughter's work, I can see where she gets her talent. In fairness, her mother is also quite a good artist, and, way back in the day, I wasn't too bad myself. It's really good to see this talent continued.
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