NICHE: A WEEKLY PEEK AT AN EMERGING ARTIST
Holly Meyers

By LIZ HEITZMAN of the Tribune's staff
Published Sunday, October 5, 2003

Holly Meyers never lost faith that deep down she was an artist.

Brian W. Kratzer photo
Never mind that she didn’t make it to art school or that she had become a mother and stopped sketching.

"I always had a dream of going to an art institute, but I just couldn’t afford it," Meyers, 31, said.

Instead, Meyers got married two years after graduating from high school in Manitowoc, Wis. And when her daughter, Raven, came along seven years ago, Meyers didn’t have time to devote to her art.

"I set it aside for a while," she said. "But there was an aching in me, and every day I ached a little more. Creatively, I was aching to do art."