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About the Owner Bobbi Samples
When Bobbi was a little girl, she dreamed of having a couple of kids she could be proud of and a husband she could grow old with. She also dreamed of being a professional dancer.
When she was a professional dancer, she dreamed of owning her own little dance studio and passing her knowledge on to other dreamers-in-training.
When she owned her own dance studio, she began to think about being a businesswoman and making her mark in the corporate world.
After starting her own consulting business, then selling it six years later, she decided to pursue a silly dream that she was reluctant to even admit having-being a painter of life.
At the age of 48 Bobbi picked-up a paint brush for the first time and began to choreograph colors and emotions onto canvas in a way that surprised even her. As she studied under Maggie Shively, she painted. And painted.
It was her husband that came up with "Bekis" for the name of her new art company using her initials wrapped around a couple of vowels. BekisArt.com was born and another dream began to take on color.
In less than eighteen months Bobbi completed dozens of oil paintings and her work was selected to be displayed at the Penrod Arts Fair in Indianapolis, the Indiana Festival at Conner Prairie, the Brick Street Gallery Art Walk in the artists' village of Zionsville, Indiana, and the Indianapolis Home Show. She has sold originals, fulfilled commissioned pieces, donated works to charities, has a line of greeting cards featuring her work, and has been featured in a national magazine. But it was just a silly dream.
In the first few months of Bobbi's adventures in painting, her grown son returned from a tour in Afghanistan and her daughter became a Black Hawk helicopter pilot. Bobbi and her husband John celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in Hawaii, where she painted some more.
Don't ever talk to Bobbi about silly dreams; to her it's either silly or it's a dream. She'll tell you that what makes it one or the other is what the dreamer does about it.
So what's Bobbi dreaming about now? She wants to open an art gallery on the square in Noblesville, Indiana where she can share the walls with other local artists. She wants it to be a gathering place for experienced and new, old and young, teachers and students, painters and lookers, buyers and sellers, dreamers and doers, and everyone else. She wants it to be called The Artist's Vineyard, and she hopes you will join her for the grand opening July 14th & 15th.
There she goes again!
Bobbi is a member of the Indianapolis Art Center, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and is active at East 91st Street Christian Church. Bobbi's husband is the CEO of Lighthouse Mission Ministries and Bobbi is a major supporter of that work to help the homeless in downtown Indianapolis.
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