“Arts education is an essential tool for healthy human development, student success, and lifelong learning. The arts cultivate imagination, creativity, innovation, and resiliency for California’s young people. 

“Creativity is the #1 attribute sought by today’s employers.  A student involved in the arts is four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement.” California Arts Council

Five fun facts you don’t know about me:  
1. I grew up in New England living in Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island.
2. I met my husband in Alaska and we worked on a fishing boat together.
3. I went to art school in Oakland.
4. I “curled” all through high school (the sport played on ice with stones and brooms).
5. In high school P.E., we played field hockey and skied.