Two months ago I retired from a 30+ year career in social services. I assisted some of the most vulnerable people in our society-people who are homeless, have a mental illness or other disability, recent immigrants. Not many people have had the privilege I’ve had of serving others in need for so long, and I don’t regret a minute of it. Yet as long as I’ve done that, it’s sometimes hard to believe that I started my professional life as an exhibiting visual artist and art educator, winning an artist fellowship and teaching art in inner city public schools for six years before my stint in social services. Even then, I worked with the most vulnerable student populations. And all this time my passion for and dedication to making visual art is undiminished. I’ve had the privilege all these years to be able to carry along and practice my first and true calling as a visual artist at a high level of competency. Now bookending my professional life as a full time visual artist, I’m eager to share my work, accumulated from past years and yet to be created.