PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A LITTLE GIRL by artist Donna Abbate

Colored pencil on paper. Mounted on wood with a plexiglass cover with brass screws, 11” x 14”

On my first grade report card my teacher wrote, “Donna is a dawdler and a dreamer” with a less than stellar grade. I still have that report card, and it’s framed on my wall. If the teacher had asked me what I am dreaming about, my response may have looked something like this picture.