GS & Company sells a large selection of original art and limited-edition prints, and has an in-house custom framing studio.

Lizzie declares that having her daughter, Vivi, is the best thing she’s ever done, and she’s made certain that travel is an integral part of their lives.  By the time Vivi was nine years old, they had already been on 56 flights and several long road trips, and Vivi had asked Lizzie to set up her own blog!

Lizzie’s contribution to COVID-19 PAGES is called “Vivi Lau Covid Portrait with Birthday Piñata.” Here’s the story behind this work:

“My daughter Vivi turned 10 on April 20, 2020 and was sad that she wouldn’t be able to have a party. She is half Guatemalan, so piñatas have been part of her celebrations since she was a toddler.

“We had an old Angry Birds piñata in the garage, and I decided we would retrofit it into a virus so she could destroy it.

“I took this photo in the driveway while waiting for her BFF’s who were coming to drive through in a car parade to honk and sing and wish her a happy birthday.

“Her cousins came by and took turns whacking the piñata with a hockey stick and screaming about what the pandemic was taking from them.

“Vivi and I are a travel blogging team, and we were supposed to spend the summer in Paris, Barcelona, and Mallorca.  We had been looking forward to meeting up with her siblings who live in Sweden.  I have video of her smashing the virus and screaming, ‘I wanted to go to Paris!’

“At the end of the day she told me it was her best birthday ever.”

To visit COVID-19 PAGES: The Influence & Inspiration of Women, click on the following link:  https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org/covid-19-pages-exhibit/

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Love Asante is the author of two collections of poetry, “Provisions” (1989) and “Dreaming Underground” (2003, Naomi Long Madgett award winner). She co-authored two fine arts catalogs about the life and work of Ed Love and produced “….my magic pours secret libations,” a fine arts catalog and video of an exhibition she curated of African American and Afro-Cuban women artists. She is the co-author of “Romancing Harlem,” a cultural memoir of Harlem, written with Charles Mills.

Additionally, Love Asante co-authored the chapter “Deep-Rooted Cane: Consanguinity, Writing, and Genre” with writer Evans D. Hopkins, who is the inspiration for the character of David Carmichael in Love Asante’s award-winning novel, “Freedom in the Dismal” (1998). She recently completed a mixed genre collection, “After the Rain: waking, walking, swimming, flying,” and the novel, “Crownsville.”

Monifa’s contribution to COVID-19 PAGES is a literary passage called “Drawing Breath: Creating in a Time of Great Sickness.” It is excerpted from a longer work entitled “Battle Hymn: Crownsville 1871-2021.”

Find the exhibition here: https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org/covid-19-pages-exhibit/

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Both attended the event.

AUP senior A’mari Bing-way moderated the event, welcoming panelists Keshia Dupros, Chizzy Igbokwe, and Mary McClean Evans.  These women presented their thoughts on mentoring from an entrepreneurial, corporate, and higher education point of view, respectively.

The evening closed with all participants and panelists returning to the main session to share thoughts and contact information.  Prizes provided for attendees by Sisters4Sisters were announced and the evening closed on a high note of anticipation for follow up connections with the panelists as well as ideas about selecting new mentors and improving relations with current ones.

*Napoleon Hill of Think and Grow Rich defines the master mind as “Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.”

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• becoming conscious of how their attitude influences their environment and relationships at work and
• enhancing self-leadership skills to facilitate keeping an open mind during stressful situations.

The ultimate goal of the workshop is to teach attendees how to manage unforeseen challenges more easily and harmoniously so they can provide better results for the end user of their product or service.

IMPACT:

Each attendee at the workshop took away a plan to address a specific business challenge:

There was enough flexibility for us to be able to share very specific experiences and get some direct feedback based on – I’d call it scenario-based workshops . . . we were going through a process to understand the challenge and the different opportunities to address that challenge or mitigate that risk.
– Michele L. Turner
(Senior Manager for Business Continuity and Operational Risk programs at Amazon Corporate (Seattle, WA))

The day after the workshop, participants enjoyed strengthening their newly forged relationships at a Wine and Canvas party.

See images of the 2016 LCC Workshop here.

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