Tom Vartabedian

An Art Sale that Beats Any Gallery

I’d like to invite you all to an art sale at my home, date and time to be announced. I won’t be auctioning off any Rembrandts or Picassos for good reason: I do not own any. What I will offer you is some of the best artwork produced by my grandchildren. It’s time to diminish the volume they have gifted me over the past 13 years and let others enjoy their talents. Besides, there seems to be no end to the production. You’ll find them with crayons in church and just about every oth

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Tom Vartabedian

Tom Vartabedian is a retired journalist with the Haverhill Gazette, where he spent 40 years as an award-winning writer and photographer. He has volunteered his services for the past 46 years as a columnist and correspondent with the Armenian Weekly, where his pet project was the publication of a special issue of the AYF Olympics each September.

2 Comments

  1. Tom, perhaps some day there will be a museum built where grandparents can donate their grandkids’ art masterpieces –to be displayed and honored in a way we all believe they should be! That museum will be the most popular museum in the country–well, to grandparents it will be! Obviously, we will have to make sure there is no basement in the museum–we have to have some standards. After all, masterpieces should be seen in only the best lighting and on the main floors of the building! Maybe some day……

  2. I never had children but my neice and her 4 kids lived with me 9 years (from birth) My bedroom walls and closet doors and the refer were covered I can really appreciate and take to heart this article

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