Hi, my name is Gini Campbell Annis and I am an artist and a teacher, not a public speaker. How many of you are involved in art? Paint, draw, sketch, doodle? Why do you enjoy doing that? Many people think that a person is born with the ability to draw or paint. That we just

For my Father’s 70th birthday, he wanted to go down to the family burial plot in Lodi, California. My father rarely spoke of his Mother. She had died in childbirth when he was very young, leaving few memories to pass down. On the drive down, I realized I didn’t even know my grandmother’s name. I

When my son, Brian was about 7 years old, he asked me why some people are called white when they are actually a peach color. And why some people are called black when they are actually a brown color? That got me to thinking… there are people of the world that are as dark as