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By Scarlett-Rose Austin
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As of June 2021, I’ve had incredible opportunities through the Sarasota Art Museum’s Teen Arts Council incentive to work with some of the very best that Florida’s art world has to offer. People like Dr. Larry R. Thompson, president of Ringling College of Art and Design, a textile artist, Kartina Coombs, and most recently, Steven and William Ladd. I was privileged enough to have spoken with the Ladds months before their exhibition at the Museum via a Zoom meeting where, both I, and the rest of the council, were able to ask them questions about their artistic journey, advice they would give younger artists, and learn about their wonderful family through anecdotes and light-hearted jokes.
Photo: Daniel Perales
The sense of camaraderie and acceptance is evident and infectious from both brothers and in the only hour time slot we spoke to them, I was given a new passion for both the world around me and my passion as an artist. In September of the next year, I was able to be present and help assist for the Sarasota Scrollathon, a program put together by the Ladds to bring together the community and create art through textile mediums. People from all corners of Sarasota came together and it was incredibly heartwarming and inspiring to see. I am now and will be forever grateful for the opportunity to meet the Ladds through the Teen Arts Council intensive, and for the connections that have come from this program. I will never be able to thank the visionaries and philanthropists who made the program possible, but hope to be able to repay them with my continued interest and passion for the arts and the well-being of the artistic community in Sarasota, and Florida as a whole.
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