Hey there Rusty!
Your art teacher from Grisham here. I am so excited to have found you and I have looked at your websites. How IMPRESSIVE! I am totally blown away but not at all surprised. I remember you doing this way back in middle school. Remember when you made a great mask that my husband wore to a Halloween party? He dressed up as one of the zombies ala THRILLER and he won 1st place. Even back in the day you were amazing. I can remember showing the "Making of M. J.'s THRILLER" featuring Rick Baker. That day you said, "I'm going to do that!"
I always wanted to just let you loose and allow you to create all the gory, demonic, etc. type work that you wanted to. However...the Principal would not allow it. He was forcing me to stifle you. Nothing of that nature was to come from my classroom during those years. Purple Sage Elem. had a huge group of parents that were backing up that mindset and it spilt over to Grisham. When I taught Surrealism during that time period...the secretaries in our school office were stopping people to tell them I was teaching DEVIL WORSHIPPING. So as you can see I was controlled.
I just retired after teaching art for 30 years. We still live in Austin. Does your family still live here? Get back with me.
Later,
Marcene Conine
Your art teacher from Grisham here. I am so excited to have found you and I have looked at your websites. How IMPRESSIVE! I am totally blown away but not at all surprised. I remember you doing this way back in middle school. Remember when you made a great mask that my husband wore to a Halloween party? He dressed up as one of the zombies ala THRILLER and he won 1st place. Even back in the day you were amazing. I can remember showing the "Making of M. J.'s THRILLER" featuring Rick Baker. That day you said, "I'm going to do that!"
I always wanted to just let you loose and allow you to create all the gory, demonic, etc. type work that you wanted to. However...the Principal would not allow it. He was forcing me to stifle you. Nothing of that nature was to come from my classroom during those years. Purple Sage Elem. had a huge group of parents that were backing up that mindset and it spilt over to Grisham. When I taught Surrealism during that time period...the secretaries in our school office were stopping people to tell them I was teaching DEVIL WORSHIPPING. So as you can see I was controlled.
I just retired after teaching art for 30 years. We still live in Austin. Does your family still live here? Get back with me.
Later,
Marcene Conine
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