Beginnings and Endings

Hi Seniors,

Welcome to Art 430 and the exciting culmination of your years of hard work earning your B.A. Degree in Studio Art. I look forward to working with all of you, and to our semester together. I hope that our "Blogs" can be a useful tool in keeping current with each other, sharing our ideas and your ever-evolving artwork.

This is a new device for me, and I am sure that there will be some bumps along the way. So, in the spirit of mutual support and learning, let us remember both patience and kindness throughout the semester. Let also remember to have fun, be daring, curious, and honest.

I Want to Write Something So Simply

I want to write something

so simply

about love

or about pain

that even

as you are reading

you feel it

and as you read

you keep feeling it

and though it be my story

it will be common,

though it be singular

it will be known to you

so that by the end

you will think--

no, you will realize--

that it was all the while

yourself arranging the words,

that it was all the time

words that you yourself,

out of your own heart

had been saying.

by Mary Oliver