They were highly intelligent and creative. If you’re a person with a lot of curiosity, it’s a very good place to operate within. They showed me that making art is a way of exploring the world. I realized that they were in some ways the most engaged and intelligent people I’d worked with as an undergraduate. I walked into a course taught by professional artists who - their practice, their living, their commitment - was to making art. ![]() I’d had whatever art class you get in middle school and high school, but they were invariably (taught by) somebody’s mother, or they were the math teacher teaching art because it was considered just an add-on spice. I’d gone to museums, but those artists were dead, or I didn’t know them. I think the aha aspect of it was, it was the first time I had really met and worked with professional artists. I try to tell students, “Do this earlier.” I went into the class, and the teacher changed my life direction radically. I took a studio art course for the first time because I had time. It was my senior year - undergraduate at the University of Virginia - and I was going to law school or medical school. She has exhibited in galleries across the country, and her paintings are in private and public collections, including the North Carolina Museum of Art, The Mint Museum in Charlotte, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem. Page Laughlin received her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia (Phi Beta Kappa) and her MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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