I am a retired art teacher. When my daughter Katie was killed I wanted to die. I could not live without her. She was my soulmate, my best friend and my beloved daughter. The grief was unbearable. My suicidal thoughts caused me to be hospitalized for severe depression. My Katie was an angel, the valedictorian of her HS class, a gold medal winning swimmer, a concert pianist, an artist, a swim coach and every mothers role model for their children. My doctors told me I had to do something positive. As I was reading through her journals I came across one where she wrote that she hoped that someday she would do something that would make a difference. Now I had to make that difference for her. I chose to make that difference through art. I opened the Katie Stauffer Memorial Art Center in 2004. We recently moved to larger facility where we can give people the opportunity to express themselves through the arts