Nigel Fox Artworks

Todd, Sophia, Paula, me and Dempsey

Well, the meeting with Sophia today was a hoot.  Everyone showed up and we even had a surprise visit from Dempsey Bob and his wife, Margaret.  We all had tim’s coffee and talked about a variety of things from teaching kids to showing in art galleries.  It was a surprise to see that Sophia knows a bit of sign language and it looks like she must have learned it somewhat fluently, because she was able to speak it faster than I could understand; granted, I only know a few words.  We have another artist friend who is deaf and speaks sign language, so it is always a good thing to know how to sign.  Sign language is quite a fascinating language and, like painting and carving, it is a visual language.  I think that it is a good idea to teach young children and toddlers how to sign because I have heard that they can learn to sign before they can learn to speak.  It’s worth investigating, either way.

We have come to the end of our reading week today and start school again tomorrow.  This should be a really great week.  We are continuing to work on our portrait masks and we have an official visit by Roy Henry Vickers.  Roy is going to do a presentation this week, on Wednesday I think.  I also think that Roy will be speaking on motivation, though this may have changed since I was last informed, too.  Anyways, I hope to keep putting out updates during the week.  Stay tuned.