Lisa on a work trip at The Broad.
I have studied it, created it, installed it, assembled it, wrote about it, defended it, and watched Lisa sell itā¦art has been the center of my adult life. This was not always the case, I entered college believing that I was going to be a math major and signed up for the requisite classes. My second semester, I discovered electives, and my course load shifted from left brain activities to tennis, billiards, bowling, and Early Renaissance Art and Architectureā¦all classes that I thought I could handle with a hangover. I had planned to get my life back to the drudgery of math in my sophomore year, when I received a note from my professor that read, āI noticed that you havenāt officially picked a major. Maybe you should try art history, you really seem to enjoy it.ā He never mentioned my qualifications, yet it validated me and changed my life. Until that moment, it had never occurred to me that I could study something just because I loved it, and, by connection, pursue a career that was built around passion.
When Lisa and I opened the Porch Gallery, we promised each other that we would only work with artists we liked, and that sales would never be the driving motivation behind our choices. The two times we strayed from that commitment, we were miserable and the sales that we predicted never materialized. With Beato Chocolates, one of our foremost pledges is to simply have fun. That is our commitment and our promise. Because, if chocolate and art canāt make us joyful, weāre screwed.
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Stay tuned,
Heather
Co-Founder of Beato Chocolates