SKB Spotlight: David Yarger

No one laughed when he sat down at the piano, and when he started to play… …SKBers who didn’t know that David Yarger was also skilled at playing the piano, suddenly knew. Last fall, during one of the evening programs at SKB’s Dubois workshop, Yarger played...

SKB Spotlight: Maddy Whatley

There are people with talents, with skills developed through hard work, with charisma. Any of those can translate into success. One trait almost always guarantees success, and Maddy Whatley has it, along with the others: Determination. Whatley is attending Lone Star...
First!

First!

  Carol Strock Wasson was not going to take any chances. She was going to attend the Susan K. Black Foundation’s annual workshop in 2015, no matter what. Step 1: Be the very first to sign up. “I wanted to go last year but had to cancel because of...

John Phelps wins SKB Rose Award

In September 2014, John Phelps was given the Rose Award by the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation. The award read: “John Phelps, for best capturing the purpose and spirit of the foundation, and as testimonial to his leadership, and the great respect and admiration...

Capturing Caricatures at SKB

  It’s not an icebreaker. Anna Sophia Lagos says she is not shy, but drawing cartoon depictions of people is a favorite thing to do because of the conversations that result. “It’s a different way to be able to talk to people,” says the...