This has been a unique semester…in the middle of it, teacher and students become Ninjas in freefall, suddenly jumping out of an airplane we didn’t know we were in; altogether overloaded and overwhelmed, feeling around for a parachute chord we’d never used before and didn’t know how to work.

“Class” is now beyond grades and tasks; “Teaching,” becomes more than knowledge and experience—now is the time for leadership, inspiration and the promise of Hope.

I tell my students, “The world wants and needs to see what you are creating. This is a lifetime event with your lifetime responses, in a lifetime exhibit, during a time that will long be remembered. What you feel and have to say will matter to people now and later. Everyone is counting on you.”

Please, enjoy our 2020 Student Charrette Exhibition, Art in the Time of Covid.

The parachute opened and we’re floating… floating… floating towards a landscape of vibrant renewal, ready to flourish, buoyed by works that are powerful stories, a mix of sadness, fear, inspiration, nostalgia and yes, Hope.

*Much appreciation and heartfelt thanks for the hope and vision of Tarpon Springs Campus Provost, Rod Davis; Program Director, Kevin Stanley, Director of The Leepa Rattner Museum of Art, Teresa Wilkins, and of course to my colleague Linda Berghoff and our students, who carry the torch. - Elizabeth Indianos

Best In Show: Phoebe Stark “The Pieces of You, Safe With Me”

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