Aww Mr. Fernetti 😢 Mr. Fernetti was my middle school art teacher and one of my favorite teachers I ever had. There are some teachers who you look back and struggle to remember their name and others who the memories stay vivid because of the impact they had and the kind of person they were. Mr. Fernetti was the latter.
He was a wonderful artist and amazing at teaching those of us who didn’t know what we were doing. He was always so much fun and a positive spirit. From “more shading!” on almost every drawing that anyone did to gleefully dumping a cup of water over the head of any student who dared to fall asleep in his class with all the other students quietly cheering and laughing to taking shoes as collateral if you had to borrow a pencil, Mr. Fernetti was one of the most memorable teachers I ever had in my entire education career. I still thought of him from time to time as an adult and wondered how he was doing. The world lost a great one with him.