The gallery show is our showcase. Being an artist is a lonely lot. You work in isolation a lot ... so it's important to see how other people react to your work.

I think that allowing them to make their own decisions and not tell them what to do is the most freeing but also the most challenging aspect of the class.

Art is a form of communication that these kids need, especially in the modern world. I want people in the community to realize that art has value and is very important in life.

We just had our first budding artist class (for) kindergarten through second grade and they were at full capacity.

It's lonely. I'm just glad to be at work, to be around the fellas.

She does a lot of the dirty work inside. She's strong and she plays excellent defense. She has defended every center we've played this year.