Emma

Kirsten wrote: Momma, 

You have a granddaughter with your talent for artistic detail. Just got a note from the school district that one of Emma's pieces of artwork has been selected to be displayed in the District Office and has now also been automatically entered into the AAFCU Art Scholarship Contest. Just thought you'd like to know that your talent totally missed me but lives on! :)

Love you! Kirsten

Myrna wrote: Congratulations to Emma are in order. I am happy that the generation coming is so talented. How lucky am I to have grandchildren who are so wonderful in so many ways?


Todd wrote: Nicely done Emma!


Shawn wrote: Good job Emma, how delightful.



Myrna wrote: I am so proud of Emma!!!!! Thank you for letting me know about her artwork! I hope she knows how important I think her recognition for work well-done is.


I should have stayed with art and not journalism. Pass that on to her for me. Tell her to keep at it. My high school guidance counselor told me that art was a waste of time and did not pay for a woman (or man) because very few became famous. (In spite of the fact that my college education was paid for by an art scholarship.) Well, I have news for Mrs. Peterson, in today's world those paintings by unknown artists still get several hundred dollars on the market. Show me a newspaper article, even a prize-winning one, that commands that.
 
TAKE PHOTOS! I remember how proud I was when my poppy poster (7th grade) placed in the state finals and I won a check. It got sent on to the national contest and placed there but I never got it back. The same thing happened when the mural I painted (5th grade) was taken to the state board of education for display. It was selected to be kept there. I didn't ever get it back either. I sold my paintings that were on display at the bank in Price. I don't know if they are on someone's wall or in the trash. And there was the chicken I painted from life (in pastels) that was selected for display at Carbon College. I never got it back. TAKE PHOTOS!!!!!!