My (humble) ART Collection (Selected)
'The Christmas Pony', by Deborahmae 'Buzzy' Broad
See more of her work at; www.deborahmaebroad.com/
Buzzy was a third year graduate student in the
fine arts department when I arrived in Knoxville in the fall of 1979.
She was all about animals, especially horses. She trained
horses, rode horses, drew and painted horses. She even had
her own horse 'Joanie' available in a nearby stable. She was a
creative, measured, keenly determined printmaker under the tutelage of one
extraordinary exacting printmaker and legendary teacher, the late great
Byron McKeeby.
Great art concerns itself not with art, but with awakening the human consciousness to itself.
— Byron McKeeby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_McKeeby
In the early Eighties, fine art college teaching jobs were like
finding hen's teeth....nearly impossible. That said, Buzzy was so good, she was immediately hired at Slippery Rock State College in Butler, PA.
The next year she was off to Minnesota State University, Moorhead,
where she taught Printmaking, Drawing and Bronze casting from 1982-2003.
P.S. FYI, the one and only time Byron McKeeby came to my studio, he shared with me that his grandfather Dr. Byron McKeeby was featured in Grant Wood's classic 'American Gothic' painting. The only comment Byron made about my work was, "it is good that you draw very well."