This Monday, our son Jackson, an amazing artist who also has autism, and who adores Ellen DeGeneres and her show is getting the chance of a lifetime–to be in the studio audience for The Ellen Show! To say he is happy is an understatement. He has been watching the show and being positively influenced by […]
Jackson’s Holiday Show a Success!
Jackson held an art show on December 11 and we had about 60 people come by during our two-hour Holiday Sale and Show. We displayed pen and ink drawings that Jackson created in his art classes over the last few years. These will be on display at an Austin hair salon’s art gallery for […]
Jackson’s ONLINE STORE is LIVE!
Finally, after three years since Jackson’s first art show in a restaurant’s meeting room, we have launched Jackson’s EyeTV’s page on Society 6. Go visit his site and buy notecards, posters, framed prints, and other art products that have the great works of “Jackson’s EyeTV” on them. We also have an art show this weekend […]
On the path to being a working artist–Christmas Art Show
A part of being a “big artist” and a working artist is to have art shows. To that end, Jackson was invited to show his work at a local salon and despite the amount of work this entails, we jumped at the chance to show off Jackson’s work. We are teaching Jackson about the skills […]
Art Everywhere, Inspirations Abound
Jackson will draw on any surface available, which is why I believe (and of course I’m biased) that he is a great artist. He IS art. As a toddler, while my husband and I tried to sleep, Jackson would draw on our pillow cases around our heads, he drew on the bed ruffle, he drew […]
Art is in the eye of the beholder
Jackson is a gifted artist. That we can all agree to. Well, unless you are an art teacher at a public school… As you know from reading the website, our son’s goal is to be “a big artist.” He has always viewed himself as an artist. He draws and paints and enjoys art classes very […]
More interests…the Olympics
Here is what Jackson would like to share with the readers of his blog: “I love my new website. It’s very cool. And I am also in love with the Olympic Games as well as linguistics.” Here is a picture that Jackson drew of his suggestions for the mascots for the Beijing 2022 Olympics (apparently […]
Congratulations Team Jackson!
After almost two years…and Jackson’s EyeTV.com is going live on September 26. Jackson is very excited about this momentous achievement. We are having a party for him to launch the site and to thank all of the wonderful people that have helped us and to celebrate all things Jackson. Or as Jackson says, “We’re going […]
Reaching your goals
One of the reasons for this website and even the launch party that we’re having, is to keep Jackson’s self stated goals front and center in his life as he ages. We want Jackson to feel that his goals have value and that when you have a goal that it can be accomplished with hard […]
Autism and Art
I don’t think that many people realize that art is a form of communications, particularly for people that we consider Intellectually or Developmentally Disabled. We created Jackson’s EyeTV website as a place for people to learn about the importance of “listening” to art as a communication in the same way that we would listen to […]