Welcome and thank you for visiting. . .

Over the years, I have spent many special times with my sister Janet (right in photo) at her summer lake home in Eastern Upstate New York. It is also our time as artists to renew ourselves with the wonders around us, recording the moments to become eventual artworks. Although we are separated by physical miles, it is as though we are visually within sight - the same as those special 'sisters' in our individual lives.

    Our artist-sister retreats not only have taken us throughout the New England region, but also in our educational roles to many other states, including the Grand Canyon during the Art-t0-Art: Building Friendships Through Art (1986-2006) program.

    Those educators and schools that participated in regular program as well as the others who directed the on location AA's national shows, re-affirmed to me the words by America’s 30th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy: "‘Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education," and with their own expertise, exemplary leadership and professionalism blended with a strong commitment, energetic and enthusiastic genuine love of teaching, mirrored the diversity of Art-to-Art’s instructional methodologies. They continuously shared those solutions, so their students will inherit the rewards which come from an education.

    As you continue your visit, I cannot place enough emphasis on my gratitude for stopping by.

                                                           Fondly,

    

                                                        Pat

P.S. The inset photo has always been and still today, my unrelenting earthly "Moses" and "Paul Revere" since 1975.

“Art-to-Art strives to enrich the lives of all young people, to encourage them to take those roads not taken, to express their individuality, to allow them to savor those returns by originality through education and building friendships. Those educators, those young people who partake have given their support to take the dream and reach for global reality.”

Patricia Rayman, June 1986 Founding Statement