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I have lived several different lives. This has turned out to be a gift to me as writer. I began adult life at fifteen with the pregnancy and a rushed wedding. At eighteen I found myself the mother of three sons. I was not able to go to high school but got my GED along with son John, before he enlisted in the military.
Returning to Detroit, I bought my historical Victorian home. I moved in alone and spent the next eight years restoring it. When completed, it was on the Detroit Institute of Art annual founders' society tour, as well as on the Woodbridge Historical Home Tour. When the house was finished I was without a project. I sold the historical house and moved to Mexico, buying a home on Lake Chapala. I built the Kimball Gallery across the back of the property. Seven years later I sold that gallery and briefly opened the Kimball Urzúa Gallery on 16 Septiembre in Ajijic. * see mexconnect.com/articles/914-kimball-gallery-in-chapala It took me two years to subcontract, supervise, and design Aztec Studios and the Urzua and Kimball art and weaving store where Francisco and I live and work today. It has been a process of joy, the realization of building something that was truly mine from scratch. This home to me is an extension of who I am. It seems to breathe, and the three of us that live here are content.
*Read the story of Janice's construction projects along with her Mexican history 'COMING HOME AGAIN' at www.mexico insights.com. To get your free copy, type in Log-In Name of: Mar 2010 with the password 'quilters'. JANICE KIMBALL/AZTEC STUDIOS
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My History
After raising a family, and a career in real estate and a divorce, I went to work for the United States Department of Labor as an employment counselor. Later, I took a class in photography at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan where I won the art department's yearly paid art scholarship. I used this to transfer to Columbia College, Chicago, a performing arts school. I quit my civil service job, sold my home in Detroit and used the money, along with working as an assistant in the college's art department, to finance my next nine years of schooling. I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in writing from Columbia College.
I was one of the few painters chosen to study at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, fine arts graduate program. After receiving my Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts I attended the University another year to get certified to teach secondary art and English as job insurance, as many university art programs were closing.
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