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PORTFOLIO DAY IN PHILLY!

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PORTFOLIO DAY IN PHILLY!

I AM PROUD TO BE YOUR EDUCATOR.
I AM PROUD TO BE YOUR ART ADVOCATE.
(your second, because your parents naturally, were your first art advocates!)

It’s not easy to put yourself out there to be judged. Actually, it’s probably the hardest thing you will do over and over and over again. Sometimes you walk with pride and sometimes you walk with a lump in your throat. I have been there and so has every artist that has ever met success. You can’t meet success without having to cross those obstacles…but the reason you meet success is that you dared to cross them in the first place.
Imagine: you are on a giant stone in the middle of the river…do you keep jumping to reach the other side or will you stay there forever alone, watching others take the leaps you want to so badly? It is okay to be afraid and it is natural to be afraid…but use fear as your motivator to learn, to grow and to understand your future with hope. In the end, you want one thing: to be happy making art…and that’s all that counts.
Some of you met success on your first stone and the next one seems closer…some of you found out that the stone is a little further away then you thought and now you may have to swim a little to reach it. ALL of us artists will do that from time to time—but it makes the JOURNEY, the ADVENTURE and the PRIZE all the more inspiring and rewarding. All four of you were brave even in fear, and you have all met success on this first venture. Be Proud of yourself. You have accomplished something that no student from Susquehanna has yet…you are the firsts to lead the way.