What people are saying about Anne:

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I have worked side by side with Anne on dozens of projects and can’t recommend her highly enough. 

 

She is a model of excellence who consistently goes way beyond expectations. She sets up her participants for success every step of the way, personalizing her activities by her attentive honoring of each person’s or communities interests, abilities, and stories. It’s clear she cares deeply for each project, community and well-being of each participant. Her high level of enthusiasm and positive outlook are contagious. Laughter and creativity flood the room when she is around.  

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Anne is masterful at drawing out of her participants what is meaningful to them, then helping them express that artistically in a way that builds their skills and brings them joy. Their creative work is celebrated often and in a public showing at the end. 

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Connection, collaboration, and community building are hallmarks of her classes and projects. People have fun together, support each other, and often create large works of community art that involve everyone’s contribution. What each person cares about becomes incorporated into these community pieces and is valued by all.

 

Rarely have I seen a person who so electrifies a room and sparks such eager, ongoing participation. She treats each participant as a fellow artist, and it’s clear they feel her respect and grow in their self-confidence and creative risk-taking as artists.

 

Her participants and the organizers are  overjoyed by her style of artistic facilitation, and she is almost always invited back to lead a group project or class again.

 

 

Warmly,

 

Pat Samples

Creative Aging Champion and Collaborator
www.patsamples.com
763-560-5199

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