CONTENTS

Prologue: You’ll Never Be an Artist

  1: How Old Are You?

  2: Leaving My Former Life

  3: Getting There

  4: So Much to Learn

  5: Familiar Artists, New Ways

  6: Illustration Versus the Context of Art

  7: Transcription

  8: Look Like an Artist

  9: Drawing

10: I Could Not Draw My Mother Dying

11: A Bad Decision

12: Euphoria

13: Grief

14: Peers

15: Crit

16: Art School + History History

17: You’ll Never Be An Artist

18: Discovery

19: MFA Thesis

20: And Now?

21: Newark Artist

22: Art History by Nell Painter

Coda: Happy Ending

      Acknowledgments

      List of Images