Artist Rose Nestler stopped by my apartment before getting honored at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her self-described break down on the way to a job in Staten Island was the impetus for heading back to school after a decade of living and working as an artist in New York. We talk about how that turned out in this episode. Spoiler alert: turned out great.

Show Notes:

Rose Nestler

Sonya Blesofsky

Marriage

Joan Jonas

Spokane (WA)

Stephen Gaskin & Ina May Gaskin

The Farm commune (TN)

Mount Holyoke College

Joan Mitchell Foundation

Teaching Artists

Brooklyn College

Ortega Y Gasset

Fabric

Sculpture

MFA

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