This is the last Art Palette column.
For a year, it has been an interesting experience to show a variety of art from a variety of people, from seven to 70. It has been very satisfying to promote the importance of creativity to the individual and to society.
A big thank you to those people who joined in. To Lesley, Dave and Richard, Jena, Anna, Debbie, and in particular, thank you to Nora for three goals and two assists, and to Shirley, for two goals, many assists, and the drafting of a valuable player in Benson, who scored two cartoon goals.
Thank you to those who contributed, passed on words of support and shared the benefits of their creativity.
The Art Palette column began in March of 2011, with a drawing by Zoe and it seems fitting that a Zoe drawing wind things up on this anniversary.
I think the surety of her drawing of a somewhat inscrutable orange cat is impressive – thank you, Zoe, for your contributions.
And thank you to the reader who sent in an article by Robert C. Koehler, a Chicago-based journalist and author of Courage Grows Strong at the Wound, because she saw that it echoed comments in Art Palette columns about healing creativity.
Koehler talks about, “being a part of a Men’s Art Forum retreat in which a man found liberation from the ghosts of his past in a drawing exercise. It was an example of what we have dubbed, at Chicago Spirit, ‘art beyond ego,’ art that aligns with the primal urge to create, art whose purpose is to heal, not merely to entertain.”
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Happy creating!