After graduating with a BA in Art History and Curatorial Studies (full title, yes), I have had multiple opportunities to incorporate my overly useful baccalaureate degree in my everyday life.

NOT.

Besides finding the course work fascinating, I chose the degree to serve as a spring-board for graduate school.  Then some life-threatening events came my way and that plan didn’t work out as originally anticipated.  But as of last week, I have now used it vicariously in a legal court of law.  Art History?, you may skeptically question.  And no one blames you.  But here are the facts, sworn in and presented as Exhibit 103.

Sunflowers, Vincent Van Gogh

The Absinthe Drinker, Pablo Picasso

Fact:  Andrew’s design firm was involved as the expert in a legal case involving high sound levels in a neighborhood.

Fact:  He and his boss had the brilliant idea to illustrate a sound concept in the case with the comparison of 2 works of art.

Fact:  I was enlisted to select and locate 2 works of art for this purpose.

Fact:  After the hearing, the legitimacy of the art analogy was questioned.  It was suggested that an expert, such as an Art Historian, should have selected the pieces.

Fact:  Andrew supplied the name of said Art Historian.  Janetta Robins Boone.

Fact:  I suppose I am a little surprised that, for the first time since I received my degree on a polished stage in the DeJong concert hall, I want to frame that little diploma and show it off.  But I guess I would have to find it first . . .