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I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.

While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing - and that would have been my ideal life, to be an artist and be paid for it, to be able to create stuff. I realized it was difficult, but I don't know if I had the application for it.

I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.