Spaces Between

(Above:  Me with juror Akiko Kotani at Spaces Between at Florida CraftArt in St. Petersburg, Florida.)

This past weekend was wonderful!  Steve and I returned to Florida for the public reception for Spaces Between at Florida CraftArt in St. Petersburg.  My Cemetery Flags was awarded first place. 

Thankfully, the show was juried blind (meaning, artists' names were not provided with the images during the jurying process) because talented Akiko Kotani might have recognized my last name!  Why?  Well, she's a professor emeritus at Slippery Rock University ... as is my father.  Also, my youngest sister earned a BFA under Akiko!  I didn't know her.  She came to Slippery Rock in 1979, two years after I graduated from high school and went to The Ohio State University.  I never took art in high school or college.  I never moved back home either.  It is, however, a small world!