Shoe Garden & Other Shoe Stories

“Shoe Garden & Other Shoe Stories”, is filled with thought provoking ideas using shoes as a metaphor for life accompanied with colorful illustrations.

A child's day is for dreaming about who they are and who they will become. These stories show how shoes can inspire their imagination.

A parent/teacher guide is available on www.shoebanter.com to help encourage creative thought.

The Stories:

Shoe Garden: How does your shoe garden grow? By two of course in colors of rainbows

Shoe Dreams: Each one tells a story, of its lifetime glory, each stand on its own, characters renown.

When Shoes Can Fly: Life's journey is meant to walk on the earth, but if my shoes could fly, I would soar so high!

Butterfly Shoes: All who watch embrace the view of fluttering wings on butterfly shoes!

The creators, Joyce Fishman and Brenda Finne are sisters who have overlapped their keen sense of design and wordsmith since they were kids.

Joyce Fishman

Massachusetts College of Art BFA; Kent State University MAT

Joyce’s work has practical application and esthetic sensibilities. Wearing varied hats in artistic industries have given her experience in education, design and retail. As a teacher and life learner, Joyce has acquired the ability to take inspiration and use divergent thinking to create a unique artistic harmony.

Brenda Finne

Ohio State University BFA

Incorporating her experience as a choreographer and writer into tangible designs and storytelling has developed Brenda’s ability to see the poetry in human experience. Her strong work ethic has taught her that tangible results can be born from magic and dreams.

The Shoe Banter Collection is a series of inquisitive shoe themed artwork.

Think of shoes as more then soulless objects of fashion.

Know that shoes contain a soul within it’s sole.