So you might ask yourself after reading this past weeks posts, just how does one person work with 16 kids during a one hour period for three days of painting with each kid painting something different and help them all come up with a superb painting? Good friends, that’s how.
Many thanks to two wonderful friends and artists, Shelly and Susan, who have helped over the last two weeks with the elementary schools that we have been working with on the 175th Anniversary Painting project. It would have been impossible for me to do this project without their help.
And, of course, many, many thanks to Kym who conceived this idea for the Blue Ridge Arts Council. And while she appears before the camera in this shot while being interviewed for a tv spot about the project, she has been behind the camera the last two weeks as our official photographer.
I am so grateful to Shelly, Susan and Kym for making this happen. Good job ladies!!!
The Studio 
This has been a great experience. The budding artists truly deserve all the credit. They have worked so hard and are really proud of themselves. Four schools down, one to go! Woohoo!!