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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Annie Shares News Volume 4 Issue 11 November 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="mailto:anniesharesnews@groups.io">anniesharesnews@groups.io</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Subscribe: <a href="mailto:anniesharesnews+subscribe@groups.io">anniesharesnews+subscribe@groups.io</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="http://www.annchiappetta.com">www.annchiappetta.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Early winter greetings to you, friends and followers. It’s time for football, giving thanks and shopping, shopping and more shopping! It is less than sixty days until Christmas. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>2025 has been kind and fruitful for us and we want to pass on our best wishes, and want all of you to know we wish you the best, whatever it may be.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The news this time is my mixed media art studio, Whispering Vines, is now on my website. One of the pieces, Bar Top, displayed on the web page is in a juried touchable art show at the Carnegie Library of Accessible Media for Pennsylvanians located in Pittsburgh. . The show will be open to the public on November 7 and the entire month of November. Visitors will be able to touch art sculptures and other art forms, like mine. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The web address to my virtual gallery is: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="http://www.annchiappetta.com/whispering-vines-studio/">www.annchiappetta.com/whispering-vines-studio/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>To learn more about the Somatosensory exhibit, call <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>LAMP/Library of Accessible Media for Pennsylvanians<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>4724 Baum Blvd.<br>Pittsburgh PA 15213<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="tel:412.687.2440%20or%20800.242.0586">412.687.2440 or 800.242.0586</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="https://www.carnegielibrary.org/clp_location/library-of-accessible-media-for-pennsylvanians/">LAMP/Library of Accessible Media for Pennsylvanians - Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Yes, I am writing and now I am painting, cutting, gluing and framing. It feels like I’ve found a part of my creative self that was hiding for a long time.People have remarked my style is original and primitive. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>As I write this, Halloween is in three days and we’ve got the candy stored and the house decorated. Our neighborhood gets about 100 kids and it is so much fun to hear them and feel the magic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Costumes haunt the street<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>candy bucket empties in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>the dark evening<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>dogs grow bat wings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>cats become unicorns<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>what happened to dressing up the humans?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Until next time!<img border=0 width=624 height=832 style='width:6.5in;height:8.6666in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DC4B1F.7443EBF0" alt="A white painting framed in black wood.Circles of yello, red and black and scatters of puff paint feel like a messy bar top that hasn't been wiped down, resembling smeared circles from bottles and glasses."><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ann M. Chiappetta, MS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>President, Friends In Art, Inc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:president@friendsinart.org">president@friendsinart.org</a> <a href="http://www.friendsinart.org/">www.friendsinart.org</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>914.393.6605 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.annchiappetta.com/">www.annchiappetta.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><div style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 align=left><tr><td valign=top align=left style='padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'>"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'>- Ray Bradbury<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>