About Wendy

Richard Klank

January 30, 1984

Wendy Kaye is a very special artist. When Jack Tworkov came to help conduct an evaluation study within our department, he recognized it immediately to the exclusion, at the time, of all of the other students that he had the opportunity to observe. She was then completing her Master of Fine Arts program.

I have had the pleasure of knowing, teaching, having her assistance in teaching my classes, and seeing her emerge as a young professional artist. She is the only student in twenty years of teaching that I have observed with talent, motivation, and integrity to continue working through hardship and successes in one continuous flow. The path has not been an easy one. She had to abandon so many defenses, search the depths of her being, and work to emerge as a woman and an artist. Of course this is a universal struggle for us all, but I am finding that few are willing or able to go that far or to that depth at such expense toward maturation though many have potential and initial facile success.

Wendy Kaye and her work should be seen and knowing her, it will. Already she is being touched by just the right amount of acknowledgement to begin. I am not sure where this letter will go to advance her career as an artist or to establish her as a teacher of other artists. I, without hesitation, commend her capacity as a young teacher and am humbled by her work as an artist.

             
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