Grieving mother creates legacy of scholarships and works with Handbags 4 Peace to give self-defense training to honor slain daughter
By January 19th of 2015, the 1st anniversary of her death, we had raised the $25,000.00 needed to endow a scholarship, and by that fall semester, had enough over that they could award the first scholarship. Originally I had specified that it be for sustainable architecture, but by then, the Philadelphia University Architecture department had chosen that their whole focus going forward would be sustainable architecture. They asked if instead it could be used to help young architecture majors afford a semester in Rome- a semester that had a profound influence on Amber. So of course I said yes...
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![]() Saturday's event was wonderful! Thank you so much for coming- I understand they sold about 75 tickets! Organized by Chris Woodson at the National Mechanics Bar & Grill, the event was supposed to run 4-9 p.m. It got off to a slow start, which was a very good thing, since the Schuylkill 'Expressway' was it's usual fabulous river of brake lights, and I was still on it at a quarter of 4. But Leanne Philips and many other awesome people were there to give me a hand, and once we figured out what we had to work with and how it could go, we had Amber's art beautifully displayed by 4:30. As more people started to arrive it was wonderful to be able to show it off and tell the stories behind the work. Many of the people there knew Amber through work, or pool league, or socializing- this was their first glimpse of another side to her. One guy told me that he'd seen her sketching at times, but had no idea she could do anything like this.It was heart warming to see the reactions, awe in some cases, at the incredible level of detailing and sense of depth. I spoke to an artist who was a friend of a friend, she never met Amber, but she bought a print of the Stone Arch, to inspire her. All in all, the art sales raised about $1000 for the Amber Long '11 Scholarship!
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