See Horse Exhibition at Hemingway Center, BSU

This week was better than last week, but it was still stressful because I had to endure yearly evaluation time at my custodial job. Although it was not horrible, it also was not good either. All part-timers have their last day of work on May 15th because school ends in a few weeks. However, I don't really want to go back again in the fall if I can find something else. I am going to try and find something that relates a bit more to my major at BSU, which is art and art education. And if I can't find that, I'll take some sort of office job.

I have only three more weeks left in my 322 Art Methods class! I thought I had longer than that. I have a lot of homework to do for this class in the next few weeks and I have spent a lot of the weekend working on that homework. On May 7th I have to give a 20-30 minute presentation to the class on one or two art lessons for kids that I want to teach.

Last Thursday our Art Methods class went to a Student Thesis Art Exhibition called "See Horse" that was in the Hemingway Center on campus. This is also called the Senior Show and is part of what an art major has to do to graduate. I will be doing this someday too. Anyway, there was an exhibit that had to do with a white grey hound dog. At first I thought it was really wierd and didn't understand it, until a classmate said that the artist recently lost their beloved pet dog and decided to dedicate his senior show to his dog. There were paintings of his dog as an angel and as the Virgin Mary, and there was a beautiful water fountain that the artist had made and he a sculpted portrait of his dog. I then connected with it totally and it made sense! As a matter of fact, I think I am going to do something like this for my senior show. It will probably be called "Maynard, the Maine Coon."

Sometimes even our heartaches and hurts can be turned into art and that art can be a source of healing for us and for others.