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The things you find when you can't find what you're looking for!
I've been searching for a piece of art that I know I just saw not long ago, some little children's book piece that I want to make into a card. Can I find it? NO.
I'm nowhere near as organized as I thought I was, and its a little disturbing. So I am moving "GET ORGANIZED" to the front of my new year's 'to do' list.

Anyway.
In my digging around, I unearthed some old awards from when I was in art school.
I had to sit down.
These two are from my first couple of years at the Academy of Art, and both are signed by people who are no longer with us.



This one was for a funny 3D Bacchus with grapes paper sculpture I did for a first year design class. Its signed by Jon Morgan who was a brilliant and funny and gifted teacher and all around great person. We were all so shocked when he passed. And I wish I could find something online about him other than his obituary. He was a private kind of guy though, so maybe that's how he would have wanted it. He came to a Christmas party I had that year, and I was so honored that he deemed me, a lowly student, worthy.





And this is for some beginning illustration, and is signed by Barbara Bradley. I have a few others signed by her from the year I graduated, but they're all faded and barely readable (Barbara, why didn't you use a better pen?). I've blogged about Barbara before, so I'll spare you going on and on again.

For a long time, when these were all new, I had them framed and proudly hanging on my wall. At some point I took them down and stuffed them in a file folder along with other sundry awards for things along the way. Its trippy how immediately I was transported back to the Academy and that time, and how I can remember exact details about the art displays, my parents being there, etc. Like it was yesterday.

Whew! Time warp!
Anyway, just had to share.

Now I have to go back to sorting, and looking for that silly illustration. Its driving me cRaZy.