2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? I am a Midwesterner at heart—born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. The house I grew up in was within walking distance of …
Artist Stories
Kristen Brown
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada. When/how did you first know that you wanted to be an artist? I don’t recall one particular moment, …
Paula Ensign
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? I was born near Los Angeles. When I was eight, my family moved across the country to a small town in Western …
Calvin Lai
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? La Canada, California, near Pasadena, in the Los Angeles area. When/how did you first know that you wanted to be an artist? …
Donna Lee Nyzio
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? I was born in Rhode Island, but I grew up in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, a small town near the coast, between Providence and …
Blake Conroy
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? Aberdeen, Maryland. When/how did you first know that you wanted to be an artist? As early as I can remember. My grandmother …
Willy Bo Richardson
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? Santa Fe, New Mexico. When/how did you first know that you wanted to be an artist? It was 1994, and I was …
Charlie Mostow
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? Seattle, Washington. When/how did you first know that you wanted to be an artist? I was in middle school was when I …
Peter Scaturro
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, though I also spent a total of five years in Spain and Italy as …
Holly Van Hart
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? New York City. When/how did you first know that you wanted to be an artist? I always knew I was an artist. …
Belgin Yucelen
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? I spent the first half of my life in Istanbul and then moved to Boulder, Colorado, where I currently live. When/how did …
Gregg Chadwick
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? My father was in the US Marine Corps so we moved frequently and traveled a lot. I was born in New Jersey, …
Gonzalo Fuenmayor
2014, 2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? I was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, but I’ve been living in the US (New York, Boston, and Miami) on …
Nadia Fairlamb
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? My dad was a fighter pilot for the US Air Force. I was born in the States, but I spent my childhood …
Karen Fitzgerald
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? I was born in Oregon, but moved around a lot, from Michigan, Arizona, North Carolina, and Massachusetts, to the Virgin Islands, Georgia, …
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