Close to The Edge of Nothing: Alex in Alaska / A collection curated by Alex in Wonderland

		Hope Springs Eternal Alex in Wonderland
ROLL | SEE ALL Untitled entry Absent (Noticeably?) Falling... Stop! Hammer time... Northern Lights Medicine Changes Musings on a Thursday Night... The deadlines are coming! The deadlines are coming! Scary Moons		So. This is the week before my last. In other words next week is my last week of working at Venice Arts. I figure I probably won't have time to write my last blog as a Youth Art Intern (but fear not, I'll still post the occasional blog about my life as an eskimo). Today I was "training" my replacement which reminds me of when I first became a Youth Art Intern. It was the beginning of Ninth Grade. I'm now about to go start my last year of high school. I couldn't do a handstand. Now I can (albeit with the help of a wall or other supportive wall like substance, like a tree). I feel very lucky because the best thing about Venice Arts is that for about 99% of the time it doesn't even feel like work...I managed to go through a bunch of crazy events in my personal life and yet still work here because everyone has always been super supportive and helpful and I never felt like it was too much. The beauty of Venice Arts is that one minute we can be super intense figuring out how to have an exhibit up in time and the next we are building fake beards out of yarn. When I took my first class here I never imagined that I would stay for almost five years... For years I used to take the end of session survey and one of the questions always was "Do you consider yourself an artist?" and my answer for a long time was "I guess....maybe...I don't know" but now I know that if by some reason I have to take ANOTHER survey I can answer that question with certainty because Venice Arts has definitely succeeded in helping me become an artist. :) Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 at 5:01PM | Leave a comment