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QUICK ART – COVER STORY IN MIAMI HERALD |
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Anyone can create a 5-minute masterpiece I love art. I love painting,'' Gordon says with a throaty laugh. Looking out over Biscayne Bay below her 23rd-floor Miami apartment, Gordon declares irony to be an overused word. ''It really is,'' she says, shrugging. ``Think about it. The only irony is that half the stuff we talk about being ironic really isn't at all!'' Like it or not though, Gordon's path to fame carries signs of irony. OFF TO WAR In 1943, while playing second banana to a gaggle of celebrities entertaining U.S. troops on the U.S. Marine Corps base at Cherry Point, N.C., in advance of a European USO tour, Gordon, a Marine herself, was called from the bench and made a starting player.
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Miami Herald Business Monday Makeover |
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 Team helps motivational speaker revive learn-to-paint business
Story by Wendy Dosher-Smith, Special to The Herald Once 2,500 Tupperware employees lined up in front of canvasses during Conni Gordon's ``longest-ever art class'' and she was featured in the 1989 Guinness Book of World Records as the ``most prolific art teacher'' on the planet. But these days entrepreneur, art teacher, author, motivational speaker, television personality and Miami Beach resident Conni Gordon, 81, and her art business need help. Enter The Conni Gordon Makeover Team.
Business Monday enlisted the help of eight specialists - everyone from a lawyer and banker to a marketing expert and image consultant - to help Gordon reinvent her business and her professional image.
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Miami Herald Business Monday Makeover Update |
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 Artist's Business Booms, But Work Remains.
Since her Business Monday Makeover, Conni Gordon's blue eyes have been ablaze with entrepreneurial zeal. After her story appeared in The Herald in January, the artist, author and motivational speaker said her phone has been ringing off the hook with requests for her group art lessons. Gordon claims that anyone, including the blind, can learn how to paint and think.
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