Americans for the Arts

Convention Graduation

Posted by Americans for the Arts, Jul 03, 2008 1 comment


Americans for the Arts

There are moments where you sense things so intensely they have a texture and vibration all their own. One experiences joy and humility in the same breath and it brings a lump to your throat even though you are smiling broadly. I had many grateful moments like these over the course of Convention. To me, our Convention is a graduation experience of sorts (true confessions from a former high school teacher). It happens in June. It’s a culmination of a year’s worth of work. And, when it happens, you forget all the hard times in between and fall back in love with your work all over again. If we did a yearbook, this text would be on my senior page.

T-Test & R-Coefficient (aka Terence McFarland and Randy Engstrom)
Terence, you make the 5 o'clock shadow an art form at any hour of the day. Randy, you wear leather wrist bands that even a wonder woman like me would covet…if only I had a golden lasso. I’ve upped the ante on you two and can’t wait to see how you’ll open the Leadership Track in Seattle.

Joyce Fellows
What a beautiful quilt of ethnic fabrics you guys are. A posse of power in the works. Can’t wait to see what your legacy is going to be.

Emerging Leader Council
It’s amazing to watch how you continue to animate your own center of gravity—even as you approach your 10th year.

James, Moe and Roberto
Being in your presence is like touching soapstonesoft to the touch but also absorbing the deep thermal heat of cultural complexities like no one else.

The Fire Alarm
How ironic that one sense of community is validated most in a state of emergency.

Amazing Women Everywhere
If you are only as good as the company you keep, I must be doing pretty well. Personal “shout outs” go to: Julia Kirt, Julia Lazarus, Julie Klaiber, Julie Bates, Coach Julia, Dawn Ellis, Victoria Saunders, Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, Amy Kweskin, Vanessa Rawlings-Jackson, Brechin Flournoy, Danielle Brazell, and Silagh White.

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July 03, 2008 at 1:08 pm

It is all about leadership and you set the stage.

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