I use summers to recharge. During the school year I don't have much time for creative hobbies. Her roomy studio is ready and waiting with projects to fill her summer hours.
Luci Frith looks forward to summer. It's not that she doesn't enjoy her position as professor of Speech and Intercultural Humanities at Manatee Community College, where she's taught for 22 years. Luci loves having summers off to follow her artist's heart wherever it takes her as an accomplished sculptor, painter and stained glass artist. I use summers to recharge, she says. During the school year I don't have much time for creative hobbies. Her roomy studio is ready and waiting with projects to fill her summer hours.
After Luci's husband Herb retired from MCC, he suggested Luci take summers off so they can relax together and she can work on her art. Herb now teaches part-time, with classes in philosophy, ethics, and logic pretty weighty subjects. ÒWe have some interesting discussions,Ó Luci says with a laugh. ÒWe can start one at the breakfast table and it's still going on by afternoon.
The couple has traveled through Egypt, Thailand, China, Japan and Europe. Their lovely home showcases beautiful collectibles from their travels, as well as Luci's art. Outdoors her sculptures, like the steel one pictured, anchor garden beds.
Luci didn't start out in teaching, but she worked as a teacher's assistant while getting one of her two master's degrees and found herself training and tutoring while working in mass media and as the editor of a small newspaper. ÒThose things were creative and fun but not as meaningful as teaching. It's where I belong.Ó
But during summer break, Luci is like a kid out of school and free to get creative.
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