Big Wow

My post the other day about the quandry with doing a workshop at the museum was titled "What would John Dog do?", because when I fed the term "eccentric artist" into the search engine, there he was. I have never met nor communicated with Mr. DAgostino, aka John Dog so you can imagine how absolutely floored I was to find an e-mail from him in my in-box this morning. And rather than take umbrage with me for having invoked his name in vain, he gave me some good advice! I quote his missive, in summary: "John Dog says Do It on the condition that the education director (maybe with your help) creates a program and a budget for future workshops. I'm sure your artist friends will appreciate being included if they are justly compensated. It is a win-win situation for the museum, the artists, and the public." And, in viewing some of the links and threads from the sites that I went back and actually looked at (rather than just pluck his name from the search), I find a philosophy from which much more can be learned...besides that, he seems like a nice guy. Thank you, Mr. Dog. What a small world this is!