Celebrate!!

 OK, some grandma bragging.  Today my second oldest granddaughter graduated from college.  She has earned her BFA from CCAD (the Columbus College of Art and Design).  Her art is very distinctive, and I think most of it is beautiful, however her full-time day job is working in a pre-school day care center.  Her art is not yet paying the bills.  

My spouse and I made the long drive to and from Columbus, Ohio, three hours each way, to be at her graduation.  We didn't mind making the drive except for getting up at 5:00am (we are retired after all and not used to getting up early). My wonder spouse did all the driving.  After it was over agreed that we do not ever want to live in a large city, unless we have a chauffer or a self driving car. 

The ceremony itself was very interesting.  The commencement address was given by Vanessa German, an accomplished artists who has sculptures in MoMA and several other galleries.  You can Google her.  Her talk was an impassioned plea for the graduates to keep creating art, to let their creative spirits soar, and her speaking style was that of a revival preacher.  Having been an art education major myself, many, many years ago, I was inspired.  I certainly hope the students were.  I found myself thinking that yes, at 80, I am still creating with my original weavings and my writing (like these silly blogs).

My most recent pieces, off the loom and ready for finishing stitched designs.

The graduate, her fiance, and her cousin (another granddaughter). It was a great day to be together.

One of her pieces from her senior thesis show.