So…six years ago, I started this blog.  I believe I had one follower.  I wrote two stellar posts and then quit.  I’m not sure why I didn’t write more, but I assume life got in the way.  That’s what usually happens.

I’m starting this up again because I need a way to share some stuff with a wide group of people.  This year, 2017, my home state of Nebraska is celebrating its Sesquicentennial.  We are turning 150 years old.  And, boy, do us Nebraskans know how to party.  We are celebrating all year long.

A part of that is Nebraska By Heart.  Nebraska By Heart is a statewide public art project and I am blessed enough to be a part of it!  My submission of dancing sandhill cranes was accepted by the Nebraska By Heart committee and then sponsored by a group of Nebraska Citians.  Here’s a colored pencil sketch of the proposal:

The finished product will be painted (acrylic) on six-foot tall fiberglass heart.  The hope is that 93 of these beauties will be sponsored, one for each county in the state.  They will all be on display later this spring and summer in Lincoln and then auctioned off in the fall.

You can read more about the project by clicking on the Nebraska By Heart link above.

I am overwhelmed at the generosity of the fine people and organizations in Nebraska City who sponsored this project:  Tom Farrell and Miller and Farrell Realty/Miller Monroe Farrell, Doug Farrar and the Arbor Day Foundation, Dean & Keitha Thomson (my parents, who HAD to contribute), Nebraska City Rotary, Otoe County Visitors Committee, Stacie Higgins, Janet Palmtag, Bob Moser, Jeff Edwards, and Dave LeGrand.  Tom Farrell especially holds a place near to my heart for his work on organizing the sponsorship.

As the weeks go by, I’ll be updating this site with pictures and tales of my foray into public art.

Tam