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Alumni from near and far flocked to the Hilltop May 6&7, with many special activities for the Class of 1966 and others. Included among the events were recognitions for Outstanding Alumnus, Young Alumna, Hall of Fame, and the Cole Porter Worcester Academy Class of 1920 Award, as well as opportunities to go back to class. A dinner was also held at Tatnuck Country Club for the Class of 1966, while a dinner for all reunion classes was held in the Rowe Court, Daniels Gymnasium. Alumni, students, families, and others also attended a special concert by Broadway and Law Order star Jessica Phillips '89 in celebration of the new Worcester Academy Performance Center. Look for more photos to come!
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
A Kemmerer water sampler is lowered into the water from a survey boat at J. Percy Priest Lake in Nashville, Tenn. Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Water Management Section showed Stratford STEM Magnet High School teachers how to collect water samples June 17, 2013 as part of a teacher externship to help them develop project based learning curriculum. (Photo by Lee Roberts)
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Alumni from near and far flocked to the Hilltop May 6&7, with many special activities for the Class of 1966 and others. Included among the events were recognitions for Outstanding Alumnus, Young Alumna, Hall of Fame, and the Cole Porter Worcester Academy Class of 1920 Award, as well as opportunities to go back to class. A dinner was also held at Tatnuck Country Club for the Class of 1966, while a dinner for all reunion classes was held in the Rowe Court, Daniels Gymnasium. Alumni, students, families, and others also attended a special concert by Broadway and Law Order star Jessica Phillips '89 in celebration of the new Worcester Academy Performance Center. Look for more photos to come!
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Alumni from near and far flocked to the Hilltop May 6&7, with many special activities for the Class of 1966 and others. Included among the events were recognitions for Outstanding Alumnus, Young Alumna, Hall of Fame, and the Cole Porter Worcester Academy Class of 1920 Award, as well as opportunities to go back to class. A dinner was also held at Tatnuck Country Club for the Class of 1966, while a dinner for all reunion classes was held in the Rowe Court, Daniels Gymnasium. Alumni, students, families, and others also attended a special concert by Broadway and Law Order star Jessica Phillips '89 in celebration of the new Worcester Academy Performance Center. Look for more photos to come!
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Alumni from near and far flocked to the Hilltop May 6&7, with many special activities for the Class of 1966 and others. Included among the events were recognitions for Outstanding Alumnus, Young Alumna, Hall of Fame, and the Cole Porter Worcester Academy Class of 1920 Award, as well as opportunities to go back to class. A dinner was also held at Tatnuck Country Club for the Class of 1966, while a dinner for all reunion classes was held in the Rowe Court, Daniels Gymnasium. Alumni, students, families, and others also attended a special concert by Broadway and Law Order star Jessica Phillips '89 in celebration of the new Worcester Academy Performance Center. Look for more photos to come!
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Some of the summer events I go to seem to be filled with people sporting belt pouches. Usually they’re leather, and the style is attributed to Burning Man, but I have no interest in going to the desert. But, it was a good project to try out. So, I figured out a pattern with some help from a pattern in my collection, and I made four using some fat quarters in my fabric collection. I put buttons on them this afternoon, and made them closable/button-able today.
One of the things I love about projects like this, though, is that I learn something from making a belt pouch that I can then apply to other projects. I’d always wondered how to put a fancy bit of trim onto a shirt or a jacket sleeve or hem. But I couldn’t ever figure out how to do it. The red trim on these belt pouches, and the instructions in the Butterick pattern, though, helped me figure it out. Essentially, it’s a bias-cut piece of fabric that is folded in half, with its fibrous edges tucked inside of that fold. The whole assembly is wrapped around the edge of the flap of the pouch, and sewn into place with a single stitch.
The insights keep going, of course. The cording on the pouches was produced using either a kumihimo technique or a lucet cord-making technique. The way the straps are produced for hanging from the belt was new to me, as well, but not hard to figure out. And the way to produce bags with both liner fabric as well as external fabric was also pretty cool.
The bag on the lower right was my first (I think — I made two exactly the same), while the blue bag with the koi pattern was my last. In each iteration of the design, I made two or three new mistakes even while correcting old ones... and as I did so, it felt like a got a lock on how this pattern works.
That, of course, is how magical training works. You do something enough times — such as, say, in daily practice — and sooner or later either the mistakes get ironed out, or the mistakes become part and parcel of the intention and the deliberateness of the practice, and the value of the practice. And the reward.
For me, I now have four or five belt pouches that I feel I could give away or sell (assuming someone wanted to buy them; they might not want my mistakes). But the real value is the the learning of the pattern, which is now implanted in me, in a sense, in a way that I need never let it go. All I must do is continue making one or two of them a month, getting better each time, and more accurate, and making better color and pattern choices. The result is an Unfolding.
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Alumni from near and far flocked to the Hilltop May 6&7, with many special activities for the Class of 1966 and others. Included among the events were recognitions for Outstanding Alumnus, Young Alumna, Hall of Fame, and the Cole Porter Worcester Academy Class of 1920 Award, as well as opportunities to go back to class. A dinner was also held at Tatnuck Country Club for the Class of 1966, while a dinner for all reunion classes was held in the Rowe Court, Daniels Gymnasium. Alumni, students, families, and others also attended a special concert by Broadway and Law Order star Jessica Phillips '89 in celebration of the new Worcester Academy Performance Center. Look for more photos to come!
Alumni from near and far flocked to the Hilltop May 6&7, with many special activities for the Class of 1966 and others. Included among the events were recognitions for Outstanding Alumnus, Young Alumna, Hall of Fame, and the Cole Porter Worcester Academy Class of 1920 Award, as well as opportunities to go back to class. A dinner was also held at Tatnuck Country Club for the Class of 1966, while a dinner for all reunion classes was held in the Rowe Court, Daniels Gymnasium. Alumni, students, families, and others also attended a special concert by Broadway and Law Order star Jessica Phillips '89 in celebration of the new Worcester Academy Performance Center. Look for more photos to come!
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Photo: POH
Public Art, Creative Therapy, Civic Leadership, and Community Engagement
Portraits of Hope has involved tens of thousands of children and adults in huge civic collaborations - in the U.S. and abroad – that have strikingly transformed everything from airplanes, buildings, and the New York City taxi fleet to blimps, tugboats, race cars, and the Los Angeles beach lifeguard towers, by working with organizations from NASA to NASCAR.
Conceived and developed by Ed Massey and Bernie Massey,
Founders of Portraits of Hope
Developed initially for seriously ill and physically disabled children, the
501 (c)(3) program creates one-of-a-kind motivational art projects that
merge the production of dynamic public art works with creative therapy
for hospitalized children and civic education for students of all ages.
More than 900 hospitals, schools, and social service agencies have
directly participated in Portraits of Hope projects in addition to a
broad array of adult civic groups and colleges.
For children in hospitals and persons with disabilities, participation in the
projects serves as creative therapy. Special Portraits of Hope brushes
and methods have been developed for children and adults with physical
disabilities, including telescope brushes for those in wheel chairs, shoe
brushes for people unable to manipulate a brush with their hands, and
fruit-flavored mouth brushes for kids and adults with limited or no movement
in their limbs.
In schools, Portraits of Hope’s interdisciplinary, project-based learning
program focuses on social issues education, with an emphasis placed
on how youth would integrate their personal ambitions with broader
societal objectives. During the sessions the kids learn about the importance
of civic education, creativity, and teamwork in achieving both individual
and societal goals. They then experience the power of teamwork by
engaging in collaborative sessions for the creation of the vibrant, large-scale
public works.
The high-profile civic projects culminate in tangible feats that instill a powerful
sense of pride and achievement in all participants, and provides children with
an opportunity to say, “I did that!” – often on the national and world stage.
Art panels from the large-scale exhibitions are donated to beautify social service
institutions everywhere – senior centers, child service centers, women’s shelters,
transitional housing units, schools, and many other community facilities, including
communities recovering from natural disasters.
Every demographic group has been involved in Portraits of Hope,
highlighting the power of teamwork, collaboration, and achievement for all.
Summer of Color, Soaring Dreams Airship,, Garden in Transit, Soaring Dreams NASCAR,
Project 9865 - Tower of Hope, Garden in Transit Airborne, Chelsea Piers Project, Ice at
Santa Monica, 212 S. State Street Project