It’s very exciting to see Paige Leber receive such well deserved recognition for her artwork at this year’s Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival. This is especially so with this particular artwork – a life sized self portrait which required the tedious assembly of hundreds of small cardboard squares. The first year I had Paige as a student I quickly learned that my job was simply to plant the seeds of ideas for projects, bounce around some thoughts, help scrounge for materials and then stay out of her way! Paige is a visionary, a problem solver and a risk taker – in other words, she’s a real artist!