COVER STORY LUCY KALIAN: WITNESSES COPLEY SOCIETY OF ART 158 NEWBURY STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS MAY 17 THROUGH JUNE 17 Lucy Kalian always wanted to be an artist. As a young child, she enjoyed sitting in the kitchen watching her Armenian female relatives mold edible shells to fill with food. The shells seemed to be sculpted, she recalled. “I was always making things and everything I saw or heard excited me,” Kalian said. “I was unusually observant and highly sensitive. Every morning I woke early and went into the wooded valley between our home and a farm where my favorite fallen tree harbored my cherished pencils and paper. I had a deep sense of yearning and urgency that had to be confronted. Not much has changed.” Approaching midlife, Kalian began taking art classes and attending art workshops. Then she discovered the Grand Central Academy in New York City, now … [Read more...] about A THOUGHTFUL OBSERVER: KALIAN BEARS WITNESS AT COSO