…Art school is an exciting process of slowly figuring out what you really want to study ... I started out with jewelry and found it fun but there wasn't enough color . I really realized color was my favorite thing . So then I switched my major to ceramics … and I had my painting teacher who I was taking fundamental painting classes with . He said , “Gillian, you should change your major a third time and be a painter . You have the soul of a painter . ” And so I changed my major a third time and