A
nnie’s understanding of and respect for her
medium grew exponentially when she worked
at Tandy Leather in Spokane, but it was also
because of this job that she grew as an artist,
too. She had gone to an art school and learned
what you might expect an art student to learn,
yet still found herself freezing in front of a blank
canvas, thinking, “What if I mess up? What if I
can never get it to look right?” She told me she
would drive her teachers mad with her hesitation
— “Just do something!” So when a manager of
hers at Tandy called to say she should enter the
leather crafting contest in the Rocky Mountain
Trade Show in Sheridan, Wyoming — that the
deadline was tomorrow but that was only for
the application so she should totally go for it —
there was no time to hesitate.
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