Care for Me

African Kisii Stone

11 inches tall, 34 lbs.

Criis donated this sculpture to the art auction for SEEC, the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center. It was held on March 11, 2006 in the main hall of the Air & Space Museum on the Capitol Mall.

The auction was the high end of fund raising! More than a thousand people were milling around, spending their money on wonderful donated things. We found beautifully made shirts with a Pooh bear print, a signed movie poster of Harry Potter's latest movie, and fine prints and sculpture. (Sadly, the poster went for a value far above my budget).

All these things brought in money for the scholarship fund to help the kids that go to SEEC.

I was just a little bit awed!

 

 

 

Besides the auction, there was beautiful music by the St. Columba's Orchestra, and awesome à cappalla singing by the 8th Notes, a group of eight junior and senior girls from Walt Whitman High in Bethesda.

And overhead, the wonderful Space Ship One, the latest addition to the Milestones of Flight exhibit.

My grandson Andrew spends his days at SEEC while Criis is at work in the Natural History Museum. It is a wonderful preschool program that provides children of Smithsonian staff the opportunity to visit museums every day.

For more information about SEEC, see: Engaging a Child's Mind, an article from Smithsonian Magazine by I. Michael Heyman.