Vann Baker:  

If you remember seeing some large "op art" 3-d cubes on the hallway wall outside the art classrooms at Frankfurt American High School, now you know who was responsible for it! I was really into painting my senior year, and I completed a number of paintings during the 1973-1974 school year. Like a lot of students, I transferred in after attending another school stateside. I went to Fort Knox High School for Freshman through Junior years, and my dad got orders for Friedburg, so that is how I came be part of the Class of 1974. We lived in Florstadt, Germany for a few months and I rode with the kids from the Friedburg bus stop into to FAHS then we moved into quarters in Bad Nauheim late fall 1973. After graduation I lived in Columbus, Georgia (near Ft. Benning) and worked part time at a printing company while going to college. Putting myself through college was both the hardest and the most rewarding thing I have ever done. In 1981 I moved to Auburn, Alabama and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and grad...Expand for more