It’s Mercer Island in Lake Washington just outside of Seattle: population 22,000, among whom is an 91-year-old artist named Carmen Sherbeck. I discovered her on 9/30/2011 at Powhatan County’s McSweeney Farm B&B where colleagues and I dined on a deeeelish brunch that we had won.
 

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It’s not possible to truly experience someone else’s feelings, but some artworks can get you pretty close. I experienced two such artworks recently: one on 9/24/2011 at the Sundance Resort in Utah, and the other on 9/29/2011 in Richmond’s Scott’s Addition.

 

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Although I haven’t met or talked with Robert A. Williams and thus don’t know his thinking, I did attend the 9/2/2011 opening reception for his ambrotypes exhibition at Corporate & Museum Frame entitled “Morphogenesis.”   On 9/1/2011 I picked up a free copy of PODIUM III at CVS. This is the printed “literary and arts journal for Richmond youth” published by the Podium Foundation

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On 9/1/2011 I was among a crowd of viewers at Josh George’s exhibition, “The Story Thus Far,” at Ghostprint Gallery.
 

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