Sharing a discipline turns out to have advantages as well. After graduation, Marcia hopes to work with families affected by Multiple Sclerosis. Her own family has been shaken by it, ever since Marcia's husband, Rick Hoover, was diagnosed with the crippling disease seven years ago. The need for support is great for MS families, she says. The divorce rate is very high.
People have few tools to deal with it.
It's hard, so they just run. Not this family, whose members stick together even in college. Often as not, he slips away to Montana or eastern Washington to feast his eyes on big sky and open space, and to consider how to commit unlimited vistas to limited canvas. Thirteen Caldwell landscapes formed a showing this fall at the Ballard Fetherston Gallery in Seattle. The paintings drew an enthusiastic crowd of collectors and art reviewers.