This guitar features images and symbols of the four seasons. Inside each rendering is a symbol of hope.

Catherine Parker is a Buffalo-based painter whose work has been exhibited internationally.  Recently, her work has been featured in exhibits at The Buffalo Club and in both Jewish Community Center Family Galleries.

Her granddaughter, Vera Parker-Kennedy, was born and raised in California, and is spending a year with her grandmother in Buffalo.  She is taking time off from school to pursue creative writing and travel.  She plans to drive cross-country before joining her sister in China to teach English.