Title Old in art school : a memoir of starting over / Nell Painter.

Publication Info.	Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, 2018.
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Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	92 PAINTER	Check Shelf
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies	92 BIOGRAPHY PAINTER	Check Shelf
Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department	BIOG. PAINTER, N.	Storage
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Edition	First hardcover edition.
Description	xvi, 331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents	Prologue: You'll never be an artist -- How old are you? -- Leaving my former life -- Getting there -- So much to learn -- Familiar artists, new ways -- Illustration versus the context of art -- Transcription -- Look like an artist -- Drawing -- I could not draw my mother dying -- A bad decision -- Euphoria -- Grief -- Peers -- Crit -- Art school + history history -- You'll never be an artist -- Discovery -- MFA thesis -- And now? -- Newark artist -- Art history by Nell Painter -- Coda: Happy ending.
Summary	Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school--in her sixties--to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived. How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, "You will never be an artist"? Who defines what "An Artist" is and all that goes with such an identity?--from publisher's description.
Subject	Painter, Nell Irvin.
	Painter, Nell Irvin. (OCoLC)fst00032438
	Artists -- United States -- Biography.
	Adult college students -- United States -- Biography.
	Older artists -- United States -- Biography.
	African American women artists -- Biography.
	Adult college students. (OCoLC)fst00797272
	African American women artists. (OCoLC)fst00799474
	Artists. (OCoLC)fst00817559
	Older artists. (OCoLC)fst01199561
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	ART / American / African American.
Genre/Form	Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Autobiographies.
ISBN	9781640090613 (hardcover)
	1640090614 (hardcover)

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