Flipside: Creativity--My Two Sons

Amy Johnson Crow has a 52 Ancestors Week blog challenge which I have decided to join. I am hoping it may help me to pinpoint someone or something that I have researched and not blogged about on Flipside. AND push me to blog about family each week in 2024. Sometimes I get lazy. 😁 Let's see how well I keep up.

Week # 22 (May 27-June 2) is Creativity. my two sons

This is a brag on my two son's blog, both artistically talented.

My eldest son, Aric, now deceased, was busy drawing from a very early age. In high school, by his senior year, he was taking art classes in photography and drawing.

TKO
Award Winner
Cinder Block with black and white dots

In Bloom
Cigarette filters

He graduated from Ohio State with honors and a bachelor of fine arts degree. While at OSU, Aric's primary artistic focus was installation art; however, he also presented works in photography and because he was talented in theater as a high schooler, he did performance art.

Nuclear Family

From OSU, Aric was admitted into the Fine Arts Department at the University of Maryland to begin his Masters Degree. He was able to complete one semester before illness

Aric's art was often edgy, always creative and left the viewer thinking.

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My son Garrett is a very talented sketch artist. His ability began to show in elementary school and middle school with his little doodles on school notebooks and pieces he drew in art classes. Soon Christmas and birthday gifts were sketch books. A gamer, his art tended toward fantasy figures and dragons in particular.

In middle school he participated in art shows and in high school he was awarded a one semester scholarship to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Garrett presenting his stole of honor
to his brother
2012 graduating Magna Cum Laude

A time came when he put his sketching materials away and began writing. A short play that he wrote while in community college was performed on stage. Garrett graduated from the two year program and entered Cleveland State as an English major, continuing to write and graduating magna cum laude.

He immediately entered the Master's Degree program in English, concentrating on Black American writers and graduated in 2016 with a Degree of Master of Art in English.

Imaginative, concise and edgy portrayals define Garrett's writing and his art.

So proud of the creativity of both of my sons and I think it is a combination of Hiser and Hughes genetics.

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