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Chicago Skyline

Twenty Five years ago, I attended my first official art class. The teacher, Beth, was a friend who ended up changing my life. The addition of painting to my life has opened up a vast world that all artists appreciate. Art changed the way I "see". My undergraduate education was in Physics and Mathematics. I became a computer programmer after college, working full time, then part time until the birth of my third child. For the next 8 years, I stayed at home, immersed in raising my young children. Toward the end of that period, I bumped into Beth. She was teaching private classes part-time. Beth encouraged me to join a group of adults to paint on Thursday mornings. Unfortunately, that was short lived because it was time to re-enter the...