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18 x 36. Pencil. 2024 - by Damon Brewer
Dedicated to Fredrick B. and his colleagues with VR&E at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, for their tremendous support.
The Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) program provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) made possible an associates degree within the Virginia Community College System (VCCS).
The VCCS in turn guaranteed admission to Virginia Tech, where I'm currently studying a bachelors of fine arts in Creative Technology & Collaborative Discovery. These are all goals VR&E has helped me set and step-by-step, achieve.
This portrait was drawn during Foundations of Drawing, under the instruction of Dr. Tammy Parks at New River Community College (NRCC).
" With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for those who shall have borne the battle, and for those widowed, and orphaned—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations."
-Abraham Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address, 1865
