Sometimes even as a young child, you find your calling or passion in life. You don’t know how you’ll get there, but you do know what you love.
LaVon Williams, Jr. fell in love with art as a young child growing up in Sanford, Florida near Orlando. Now 64 years old, Williams remembers his first art teacher in life. Poet, author, and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou hosted an art show on PBS every Saturday back in the 1960s.
Williams recalls, “I think until I was 15 years old, I watched that show every Saturday. So, she would talk about different artists, poets, paintings. She talked about Picasso, (and many other greats). I was sitting there mesmerized as she explained about art.”
