Week 2

Joan Myerson Shrager has been a professional artist for over 25 years and has exhibited her work in many shows. She studied painting, sculpture and ceramics at Moore College of Art and Design, Tyler School of Art and the University of the Arts and taken many workshops. For the past two years she been working exclusively on the computer and has been creating digital art using Illustrator and Photoshop with a Wacom tablet and stylus. She wrote that she has never attended a class in computer art.

The painting “In our hands” really caught my eye. The painting is rich in color as well as meaning. In my opinion, this painting said, we are all people in the human race. I see beautiful hands of all colors reaching out to help their fellow man. Some holding hands to offer support.  Others are clapping in approval of what they see taking place. While some have out stretched hands reaching and waiting to offer help. Children watching with smiling eyes as adults unify. I believe the woman in the center of the picture is the artist.  I see an artist with her stylus painting a picture of the world she sees or would like to see.  

I hope in the near future we work towards this picture becoming our reality. We should not wait for a natural disaster or a community tragedy to come together. On a global level we need to realize that we all need each other because no man is an island. With two hands you can work a garden with many hands you can tend a field. With unity everything and anything is possible.