Special Day Today

We are not having a normal school day. We had Bible study in the morning. Sam's class got to play a game where they threw darts at the balloon to pop it. The balloons had bad attitudes written on them that needed to be popped.

Then we went to the Peninsula Fine Arts Center. Two art collections were on display. Howard Finster and a woman who did sculptures out of other people's collections. She bought the collections on ebay and had the seller write and tell her the where/why for the collection. Sam wrote about one of her collages on his blog. My favorite was a ton of cookie cutters-I recognized several of them. The story is posted beside the art.

Howard Finster was a very interesting person. His art is compelling in a weird way--it isn't really what I would call beautiful. But he was only educated to grade 6. He was a plumber, carpenter and several other things as well as a traveling southern baptist preacher. One day he heard God tell him to do art that proclaimed God's word and God's truth. Maybe that is where the compelling comes from. His ideas are strange, his artistic talent is untrained...anyway, if anyone is curious to see it, we can go there on Saturday after thanksgiving.

Tonight we have a potluck after martial arts--that will be great fun!

See you in a few days!