doni s jordan: The Art of Steven Naifah: Found In Translation

Friday, May 17, 2013

The Art of Steven Naifah: Found In Translation

I attended the opening of Found In Translation: The Art of Steven Naifah last night at the Columbia Museum of Art. Inspired by Islamic art and architecture, the geometric abstractions are illuminating!

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2017-2008 Art Exhibitions, Art Benefits + Events

• Artfields 2016, Lake City, SC, April 22-30, 2016
• Palmetto Hands, North Charleston, SC, April 29-May 7, 2016
• Independent Spirits: Women Artists of South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC October 9 , 2015-January 10, 2016 Edit Delete ↑ ↓• Southern Rhythms at McKissick Museum, 2015 Juried Art Exhibition, Dec 3-9, 2015 Edit Delete ↑ ↓• Envisioning O'Keeffe, An Installation by Judy Hubbard with 50 artists, August 14-September 27, 2015
• Envisioning O'Keeffe, An Installation by Judy Hubbard with 50 artists, August 14-September 27, 2015
• Southern Rhythms at McKissick Museum, 2015 Juried Art Benefit, Dec 3-9, 2015
• Salon Art Talk, Columbia Museum of Art, November 23, 2015, Noon
• Artfields, R.O.B., Lake City, SC April 24-May 2, 2015
• Volumes: Women Bound By Art, Goodall Gallery, Columbia College, October 27 - December 14, 2014
• doni jordan: tomes, solo exhibiiton @ Richland Library, January 15-March 31, 2014
• Volumes: Women Bound By Art, USC Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, January 2014
• Festival of Trees, Palmetto Health Foundation, November 22-24, 2013, Colum• Metropolitan Convention Cent
↓• unearth, Saluda Shoals Park, Columbia, SC, October 6 2013
• One x 100: Creating Within Constraints, Atrium Gallery, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, May 19, 2012- September 9, 2013, Columbia, SC Edit Delete ↑
• West Elm Window Art Installation, Charlotte, NC, October 1 - November 8, 2012
• Womanmade, Redbird Gallery + Studio, Columbia, SC, March 14 - April 19, 2013
• play:02 with Janette Grassi, Painted Violins, to benefit the South Carolina Philharmonic, Anastasha & Friends Gallery, Columbia, SC, March 7 - April 9, 2013
• Upload: Art of the Digital Camera Phone,Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC, January 18-March 2, 2013
• Ev(e)olution, National Association of Women Artists, New York Public Library, March 1-21, 2013
• Art with Heart, Charlotte, NC, February 2, 2013
• Volumes: Women Bound By Art, Lexington County Public Library, Columbia, SC, February 2-28, 2013
• Festival of Trees to benefit Palmetto Health Children's Hospital, November 16-18, 2012, Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, Columbia, SC
• Volumes: Women Bound By Art,The Portfolio Gallery, Columbia, SC, September 20- October 18, 2012
• SC State Fair, Professional Art, October 10-21, 2012
• unearth, Saluda Shoals Park, Columbia, SC, October 7, 2012
• Spring Exhibition, National Association of Women in the Arts, Midday Gallery, Englewood, NJ, May 4-May 28, 2012
• SC Palmetto Hands, Charleston, SC, May 2012
• Verner Art Show & Sale, 701 Gallery, Columbia, SC, May 2, 2012
• reserve your seat : doni jordan + janette grassi, chairs on plaza of Columbia Museum of Art during Chair-ity Ball and in conjuction with opening of The Art of Seating: 200 years of American Design, April 27, 2012
• reserve your seat:doni jordan + janette grassi to benefit Nature's Theater at Saluda Shoals Park, photo art installation, Artista Vista, April 26, 2012
• Empty Bowls, Harvest Hope Food Bank Benefit Auction, Marriott, Columbia, SC, February 10, 2012
• Art with Heart, United Family Services, Charlotte, NC, February 4, 2012
• SC Department of Parks, Recreation + Tourism, 2011 Artist in Residence Program, with Kay Reardon, November 2011
• Reserve Your Seat to benefit Nature's Theater at Saluda Shoals Park, Columbia, SC with Janette Grassi, September-October 2011
• No Strings Attached. Chapin Symphonic Society, Chapin, SC. Chapin High School and Chapin Middle School. With Janette Grassi. May 17, 2011. and
• doni jordan:tomes, USC Sumter, University Gallery, February 9-April 12, 2011
• 3rd Annual Life Point Benefit Auction, Lexington, SC. April 2011
• National Small Works, National Association of Women Artists, NAWA Gallery, 80 Fifth Avenue, NYC, Feb 2-22, 2011.
• Dream Rocket Project, Worldwide Project, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose, CA
• ArtRageous Digital Graffiti Project, Columbia, SC, December 2010
• National Association of Women Artists, 2010 New Members Exhibition, New York, NY, November 11-20, 1010
• Art with Heart, Charlotte, NC, February 6, 2010, art benefit
• Women in Politics, 2nd Annual Shoe Party, home of Kay Webb, Columbia, SC, November, 2009.
• Stretch:Type, Janette Grassi + Doni Jordan, USC Upstate, Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery, October 2-30, 2009.
• Carolina's Got Art!, October 2-30, 2009, sponsored by Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC. Juried exhibition.
• Stretch:Type, Janette Grassi + Doni Jordan, Upstairs [artspace] , Tryon, NC in conjunction with Southeastern Book Art (SABA) traveling exhibition, June 5-July 18, 2009.
South Eastern Book Art Conference attendee, May, 2009
SC Philharmonic Painted Violin, juried invitational with Janette Grassi, April, 2009
Artist Against Aids, The Aids Benefit Foundation of SC, platter with Janette Grassi, April, 2009
Cyber Fyber, Gallery 80808, Vista Studios, Columbia, SC, postcard and artists trading card
Stretch: Type, Queens University, Max L Jackson Gallery, Charlotte, NC with Janette Grassi
A String of Pearls:30 Years of Upstairs Art, Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC
Journal Page Challenge, Random Arts, Saluda, NC
Designer's Walk, Garvin Design, Columbia, SC
Night on the Nile, Art Auction, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Artist Against Aids, The Aids Benefit Foundation of SC, with Janette Grassi
Painted Violins, South Carolina Philharmonic, with Janette Grassi

Art in my life 2017-2009

• Artfields, Lake City, SC April 28-30, 2017
• Emmanuel, Koger Center, Columbia, SC, April 7, 2017
• Enduring Spirit: The Art of Tyrone Geter, Columbia Museum of Art, February, 2017
• Salvador Dali's Fantastical Fairy Tales, Columbia Museum of Art, February, 2017
• Cut! Costume and the Cinema, Columbia, SC, 2017
• Modern Art Desserts, Caitlin Freeman, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, January 24, 2015
• Costumes of Downtown Abbey, Winterthur, DE, December 29, 2014
• Found in Translation: The Art of Steven Naifeh, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, May 16, 2013, with Tom Chinn
• Ellsworth Kelley, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 21, 2013
•TEDx Columbia, SC, January 21, 2013, Harbison Theatre, Columbia, SC
•Upload, Art of the Digital Phone, Upstairs Artspace Gallery, Tryon, NC, January 19, 2013, with Susan Livingston and Kay Reardon
• Cirque Du Soliel: Worlds Away, Charlotte, NC, December 29, 2012 with Janette Grassi
• Messiah, An Oratorio, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Cathedral Choirs and the South Carolina Philharmonic, December 16, 2012 with Kay Reardon
Mark Rothhko, The Decisive Decade, 1940-1950, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, December 15, 2012 with Converse Roberts
• Nutcracker, Columbia City Ballet, Koger Center, Columbia, SC, December, 9, 2012 with Chloe, Kayla and Ari
• SC Philharmonic, Holiday POPS, Harbison Theatre, Columbia, SC, December 2, 2012 with Kim Lemasters and Tom Chinn
•Rothko on Rothko, Christopher Rothko, son and author of The Artists' Reality, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, November 30, 2012 with Susan Livingston, Kay Reardon and Tom Chinn
• Mepkin Abbey, Moncks Corner, SC, November 29, 2012 with Leslie Hoover and Kay Reardon
• Giacometti: Memory and Presence, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC, November 1, 2012 with Janette Grassi
• SC Philharmonic, Koger Center, Columbia, SC October 13, 2012, with Janette Grassi
• Pilobolus, Harbison Theatre, Columbia, SC, October 12, 2012, with Janette Grassi, Paula Maky + Kay Reardon
• Pride and Prejudice, The SC Shakespeare Company, Saluda Shoals Park, October 5, 2012, with Kay Reardon
• Mark Rothhko, The Decisive Decade, 1940-1950, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, October 11, 2012
• Red, Columbia Museum of Art, October 11, 2012
• Light Installation by Bruce Munro, Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA, July 6, 2012
• Longwood Gardens, Pawley's Island, SC, June 20, 2012
• Peter Lik Gallery, Caesar's Las Vegas, NV, May 9, 2012
• Chilluly installation, Bellagio, Las Vegas, NV, May 9, 2012
• Montezuma Castle Cave Dwellings, National Monument, AZ, May 5, 2012
• Red Rock formations, Sedona, AZ, May 5, 2012
• Art Installations, Artista Vista, Columbia, SC, April 28, 2012
• The Art of Seating:200 Years of American Design, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, April 27, 2012 with Janette Grassi
• David Cianni, Alternate Universe: The M-Bora Project, Gallery 701, Columbia, SC, April 21, 2012 with Kay + Susan
• Project Runway Runaway, Township Auditorium, Columbia, SC, April 21, 2012 with women's group
• Open Studios, Columbia, SC, April 21, 2012, visited six studios including Susan Lenz, Gallery 701, Ellen Emerson Yaghjian
• 10 Women in Clay, Gallery V, Columbia, SC, March 22, 2012 with Susan + Corrine
• Abstract Art in South Carolina, 1949-2012, SC State Museum, Columbia, SC, March 22, 2012 with Susan + Corrine
• Dance Theatre of Harlem, Township Auditorium, February 23, 2012 with Sheila + Ari McNeill
• SC State Museum, Columbia, SC, February 5, 2012 with nieces
• Saints at the River, reading by author Ron Rash, Richland County Public Library, February 1, 2012 with Corrine + Ann
• An Egg a Day: Drawings by Phil Burns, Richland County Public Library, February 1, 2012
• Sheila Hicks, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, January 2012
• Biennial, 701 CCA, Columbia, SC, December 15, 2011
• Nights of a Thousand Candles, Brookgreen Gardens, Pawleys Island, SC, December 9, 2011 with David, George and Paula, Joe and Blake and Steve and Maggie
• Nights of Wonder at Holiday Lights on the River, Saluda Shoals Park, November 20, 2011
• Body Worlds: Vital, SC State Museum, Columbia, SC, November 29, 2011 with Kay Reardon
• Picasso to Warhol, High Museum, Atlanta, GA, November 25, 2011 with Jennifer and Katie Jordan
• Biodome, Montreal, Canada, September 24, 2011
• Jardin Botanique (botanical gardens), Montreal, Canada, September 24, 2011
• Jean Paul Gaultier, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada, September 23, 2011
• Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal, Canada, September 23,2011
• National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA. May 18, 2011 with Rhonda Mullins.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. May 17, 2011 with Rhonda Mullins.
• Ethel S. Brody: Encore, Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC, March 11, 2011, with Kay Reardon
• Laura Spong:2006-2011, Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC, February 20, 2011, with David, Barbara + Roger Fischer
• Beethoven & Blue Jeans, SC Philharmonic, Koger Center, Columbia, SC, January 15, 2011 with Delores Logan
• Art talk by Jeffrey Makala, Special Collections and Rare Books, USC, Columbia, SC, with Kay Reardon, January 14, 2011
• Janet Orselli, The New York Exhibiton, if Art Gallery, Columbia, SC with Kay Reardon, January 13, 2011
• I Heard a Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill, Columbia Museum of Art, with Janette Grassi, January 6, 2011
* Paths of Least Resistance: Works by Jeri Burdick & Clay Burnette, Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC with Janette Grassi, Januray 6, 2011
• Longwood Gardens, Delaware, December 14, 2010, with sister and Thom Mason
• The Statue of Liberty + Ellis Island, New York Harbour, NY, December 11, 2010, with sisters and nieces
• George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center, David H Koch Theatre, NYC, NY, December 9, 2010, with sisters and niece
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Steiglitz Exhibition, NYC, NY, December 10, 2010
• Radio Ciry Christmas Spectacular, NYC, NY, December 9, 2010 with sisters and nieces
• The Lion King, Broadway, NYC, NY, December, 11, 2010, with sisters and niece
• The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller by Chip Davis, Koger Center, Columbia, SC, November, 27, 2010 with Janette Grassi
• A Survey of Gee's Bend Quilts, Franklin G. Burroughs Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC, Sept. 2, 2010 with Kay Reardon
• Brookgreen Gardens, Pawley's Island, SC, Sept. 1, 2010 with Kay Reardon
• In the Tower: Mark Rothko, National Gallery of Art, Washingon, DC, July 11, 2010 with Madison Spence + Rhonda Mullins
• Wild Ocean, Johnson IMAX Theater, National Museum of National History, Washington, DC, July 11, 2010 with Madison Spence + Rhonda Mullins
• Brian Jungen, Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC, July 9, 2010 with Madison Spence + Rhonda Mullins
• National Gallery of Art, Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, July 9, 2010 with Madison Spence + Rhonda Mullins
• Brookgreen Gardens, Pawley's Island, SC, May 11, 2010 with Janette Grassi
• Shadow + Light, SC Philharmonic with pianist Martina Filak, April 24, 2010 with Kay Reardon
• Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC, January 15, 2010 with Janette Grassi
• Beethoven + Blue Jeans, SC Philharmonic, Columbia, SC, January 16, 2010 with Delores Logan
• Bela Fleck + the Flecktones with the SC Philharmonic, Koger Center, Decmber 1, 2009 with David +Makys
• Moore in America, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Atlanta, GA, November 27,2009
• Viewed Central and East African Art, home of Delores Login, Columbia, SC, November 8,2009
• State Art Collection, Contemporary Conversations: Part II, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, South Carolina Arts Foundation + SC Arts Commission, panel discussion and opening, Novermber 5, 2009 with Tom Chinn
• Liisa Salosaari Jasinski, Oil Paintings 2006-2009, Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC, solo exhibition, November 5, 2009 with Deborah Farr
• Stretch:Type, janette grassi + doni jordan, USC:Upstate, October 2-30, 2009
• Talking Threads: a quilt + fiber arts symposium, Sumter County Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC, October 24, 2009 with Kay Reardon and Susan Lenz
• Ansel Adams, Masterworks, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, exhibition and art talk by Julian Cox, curator of photography at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 22 + November 6, 2009 with Kay Reardon and Deborah Farr
• Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg: 20th Century Masters in the Collection, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, exhibition and art talk by Dr. Brad Collins, September 16, 2009
• Cleve Gray: Man and Nature, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, September 16, 2009
• The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron, Art Group at Vista Studios, Columbia, SC, Aug-November, 2009
• Edventure Children's Museum, butterfly exhibition, with nieces Crystal, Chloe, Cayla and Madison, Columbia, SC, 8/18/09
• National Cemetery, Beaufort, SC with Madison,8/16/09
• Delores B. Nevils, book signing of Amadeus, the leghorn rooster, St. Helena Island, SC with Madsion, 8/13/09
• Ellen Kochansky, visited studio, assisted with hospital commission, enjoyed garden lunch with Kay Reardon, Pickens, SC, 7/26/09
• Jamie Davis, visited pottery studio, watched him throw a vessel, added 3 incredible pottery pieces to art collection
• Stretch:Type Janette Grass + doni jordan, [upstairs artspace], Tryon, NC, 6/5/09-7/18/09
• Anne Boudreau, a delicate balance, 701 Gallery, Columbia, SC, 7/1/09 with Kay Reardon
• Southeast Association of Book Art SABA 2009 Conference, University of South Carolina, May 13-14,2009
• Wicked, Broadway, NYC, 5/6/09
• Toured Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY, 5/6/09
• MOMA, Tangled Alphabets: Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel, NYC, 5/5/09
• Cooper Hewitt Museum, Fashioning Felt Exhibition, 5/5/09
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, Postcard Exhibition, 5/4/09
• Robert Courtright: Collages, Collage Constructions and Masks, 1953-2008, State Museum, Columbia, SC, 3/26/09
• Columbia City Ballet, Don Quixote, Columbia, SC, 3/13/09
• Turner to Cezanne, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 3/12/09
• SC Book Festival, Brian Rutenberg art talk, Columbia, 2/28/09
• Eye to the East: The Turner Collection of Chinese Art, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 2/27/09
• African Art, Demba Saccoh, Columbia, SC, 2/19/09
• Compass 5: Virginia Scotchie, Cayce, SC, 2/12/09
• South Carolina Philharmonic, Love, the Magician, 2/14/09
• Columbia City Ballet, Off the Wall + Onto the Stage, Dancing the Art of Jonathan Green, Columbia, SC, 2/6/09
Jerry Pickney: Drawing on Stories, Benedict College, Columbia, SC, 2/5/09
• Laura Spong: Still Screaming + Leo Twiggs: Targeted Man, Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC, 2/6/09
• Ellen Kochansky: Embedded Energy, 701 CCA, Columbia, SC, 2/5/09
• Jerry Pinkney, Benedict College, Columbia, SC, 2/5/09
• Susan Lenz: Cyber Fyber, Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC, 1/9/09
• Miriam Barbosa: Story Lines, SC Contemporary Dance Company, 701 CCA, Columbia, SC, 1/9/09
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Community Carol Sing, Columbia, SC, 12/08
• Seaforms: Dale Chihuly, Columbia Museum of Art, 11/15/08
• South Carolina Philharmonic, Beethoven: Blue Jeans and Zuill, 11/15/08
• Textile Tales, 701 CCA, Columbia, SC, 10/17/08
• South Carolina Philharmonic, Fire and Ice, 9/20/08
• Visited home of Australian Open, Melbourne, 3/26/08
• South Carolina Philharmonic with Miriam Burns, 4/5/08
• Tjapukai Aboriginal, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 3/22/08
• Melbourne Museum, Melbourne, 3/26/08
• Museum of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 3/20/08
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, March 2008
• Museum of Contemporary Art, March
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 3/19/08
• Masters, Augusta, GA, 4/10/08
• National Gallery of Australia, March 2008
• Toured Sydney Opera House and attended Italian Opera performance, 3/18/08
• American Modernism, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV, May 2008
• O, Cirque Du Soleil, Las Vegas, NV, 5/29/08
• The Beatles: Cirque Du Soleil, Las Vegas, NV, 5/26/08
• Aboriginal Art Gallery, Port Douglas, Australia, 3/2008
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 3/24/08
• Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal, Canada, September 23,2011

South Carolina Women Artists in my collection

2014-2008 Travels

"the joy is in the journey"
• Knoxville, TN, September 2014
• Asheville, NC, July 2014
• Atlanta, Ga, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, July 2014
• Pennsacola, FL, May 2014
• San Diego, CA, April 2014
• Camp Gravatt, Aiken, SC, July 2012
* Delaware, June 2012
• Litchfield Beach, SC, June, 2012
• Sedona, Las Vegas, May 2012
• Atlanta, GA, May 2012
• Cheraw State Park, February 2012
• Charlotte, NC, January 2012
• Amish Country, PA, December 2011
• Wilmington, Delaware, December 2011
• Litchfield Beach, SC, December 2011
• Asheville, NC, December 2011
• Charlotte, NC, December 2011
• Montreal, Canada, September 2011
• Cape Hatteras, NC, August 2011
• Philadelphia, PA, May 2011
• Charleston, SC. April 2011 with Kay Reardon + Susan Livingston.
• Thomasville, AL, February 2011
• New York City, NY + Newark, DE, December 2010
• Thomasville, AL, October 2010
• Pawley's Island, SC Sept. 2010
• Washington, DC, July 2010
• Charlotte, NC, May, 2010
• Pawley's Island, SC, May, 2010
• Charlotte, NC, January, 2010
• Great Smokey Mountains, TN, December, 2009
• Atlanta, GA, November 2009
• Charlotte, NC, November 2009
• Amish Country, October 2009
• Landrum, SC September 2009
• Camden, SC, September 2009
• Aiken, SC, September 2009
• Fripp Island, SC, August 2009
• Pickens, SC, July 2009
• Ashville, NC, May 2009
• Hilton Head, SC, May 2009
• New York City, NY, May 2009
• Jamaica, May 2009
• Charlotte, NC, January 2009
• Australia, 2008
• Knoxville,TN
• Charlotte, NC
• Maggie Valley, NC
• Delaware by train
• New York City
• Atlanta, GA
• St. Thomas
• Alabama
• Las Vegas, NV
• Baton Rouge, LA

You are what you read…

• Thin Places: An Evangelical Journey into Celtic Christianity, Tracy Balzer
• The Way We Live with the things we love, Stafford Cliff*
• The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art, Christopher Rothko
• Sheila Hicks: 50 years, Joan Simon and Susan Faxon
• Pilgrimage, Annie Leibovitz
• Victory of the Spirit: Reflection on My Journey, Janet Cheatham Bell
Once Upon a Secret: My affair with President John F. Kennedy, Mimi Alford
• Mom and Me, Maya Angelou
• Modern Art Desserts, Caitlin Freeman
• My Reading Life, Pat Conroy
• Letters from Skye, Jessica Brockmole
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
• Steel Me Cowboy, Kim Boykin
• Defending Jacob, William Landay
• The Asylum Simon Doonan
• Still Writing, The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life, Dani Shapiro
• The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Water is Wide, Pat Conroy
• A Vintage Affair, Isabel Wolff
• The Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
• The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd
• The Hurricane Sisters, Dorothea Benton Frank
• What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty
• The Aviator's Wife, Melanie Benjamin
• The Cove, Ron Rash
• War Horse, Micael Morpurgo
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Learning from the Heart, Daniel Cottlieb
• A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Montreal, Nancy Dunton and Helen Malkin
• Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell by Charles Simic
• Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth
• I Heard a Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill
• 29 gifts by Cami Walker
• Traveling with pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
• eat|pray|love, Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Help, Kathryn Stockett

Great adventures in my life.

• Attended the Munich Olympics in 1972 the day before the terrorist struck and the year that Mark Spitz earned 7 gold medals.
• Stood in Monet's Garden in Giverny after viewing the original Waterlilies in Paris.
• Toured Europe on a 14-day excursion at age 12
Watched as Myan ruins were unearthed during an archeological dig in the jungles of Belize, Central American.
• Navagated through the locks of the Panama Canal as an American civilian on a Navy destroyer at age ten.
• Climbed Sydney Harbour Bridge with David in March 2008

My Dreams Came True

• Marriage to David for 31 years
• Created reserve your seat to benefit Nature's Theater at Saluda Shoals Park with Janette Grassi
• Created Common Ground Studio with the continued support of Jim Green
• Strive to support and empower others
• Created Benchmark with Janette Grassi and Wholeness with Greg Leonard
• Founder of She: A Celebration of Women and Art and Cattywampus
• Earned BFA in art studio in 2001 from the University of South Carolina
• Worked at Rape Crisis Network for 5 years

2008/This is my life!

• Spent more time with family + friends
• Worked 13 hours as a Poll Manager for the Richland County Election Commission in historic Presidential election, November 4, 2008
• Hosted 2 African Art Viewings
• Celebrated 29 years together with David
• Created new series of art and exhibited work with Janette Grassi
• Spent two joy filled weeks with niece Madison Spence
• Hosted Bejing Olympic Opening Ceremony Party
• First overnight train ride with niece Lauren Jordan
• Stretched
• Participated in the planning and design of the weddings of nieces Elizabeth Parker and Jessica
• Painted violin featured on cover of SC Philharmonic program
• Fulfilled life long dream of going to Australia
• Tennis team (6.5 Senior Combo Women) won USTA Southern Sectionals (9 states)