Julia child was born into a family of three children who all went to private schools and had their own servants. Julia was tall and loved the outdoors and sports. She went to Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in History and English and after graduation she took a job as a copywriter for a furniture company in New York City. Soon after World War II, Julia joined the OSS were eventually she met her husband, Paul Child and they were soon married. Paul was the one who introduced Julia to the french cuisine and this is when Julia found her love for
“Where you are is not who you are. That’s a quote from her mom that Ursula Burns CEO of Xerox Corp remembers and lives by day to day. My essay is on Ursula Burns, who started off as an intern at Xerox Corp that eventually rose through the ranks to become the first African American female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. In this essay, I will discuss her career, her business leadership and her many other business strategies. During a talk at the annual awards conference, Burns talked about how her mother, who raised Ursula single, in one of the worst New York City Public Housing Projects, loved to give advice.
Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California but at the age of 13 she moved to the south with her family. Her father, artist Larry Walker, was offered a teaching position at Georgia State University. Kara attended the Atlanta College of Art where she received her BFA, and then got her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Art. She has many accomplishments including being the youngest recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s genius grant, representing the United States in the Sao Paulo Biennial in Brazil, and having her first full scale US museum survey at the Walker Art Institute. Currently she resides in New York and is a professor of visual arts at Columbia University.
In 1907 she attended the Art Students League in New York. In 1908 she won the League's William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her oil painting Mona Shehab. In the fall of 1908, she abandoned the idea of pursuing a career as an artist. She said that she could never distinguish herself as an artist within the mimetic tradition, which was what she was training. She then took a job in Chicago as a commercial artist.
Erin Weinberger Theater Fundamentals October 22, 2010 Agnes de Mille Agnes de Mille was born in New York, New York in 1905 to the parents of William C. deMille who was a playwright and soon to be Hollywood director and Anna George, the daughter of a well known economist in New York. When she was still young her family moved to Hollywood to become part of the business there. Because Agnes was still a child she attended a Hollywood school for girls. Then went on to graduate from University of California at Los Angeles being part of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. In 1932 she then moved back to New York when her parents divorced and started choreographing dance numbers to perform.
Having taken only three Art and Design courses at Hope College many years ago, Cooper-Prince had limited experience as an artist, but she realized that “it was a form of therapy” as she would become lost in her art for hours and hours reflecting on her life with and without her husband. “Whatever
Sydney Schmitt 3rd Period 1/3/13 Martha Stewart Born Martha Kostyra on August 3, 1941, the future domestic trendsetter was the second of six children of Polish immigrant parents Edward and Martha in Jersey City, New Jersey. Martha learned to cook and sew from her mother, and to garden from her father who loved to plant flowers and fruit trees in the yards of the home in Nutley, New Jersey they moved to when she was three years old. During her high school years, she won some modeling jobs in New York. She graduated from Nutley High School in Nutley, New Jersey in June of 1959. She continued modeling during her college years at Barnard College where she graduated in June of 1963 and met her former husband, Yale Law School student,
Why have you stopped drawing? She had the gift alive during the dead years…” His mother supported his gift through everything. When she became ill she made him draw the world as a beautiful place. Asher knew better than that, he knew since a very young age that the world was not as magnificent as his mother made him believe. Growing up she bought him books about artists, painting supplies, took him to art museums, comforted and took Asher’s
Picasso’s newborn baby inspired him and his imagery turned to mother and child themes. In 1927 Picasso met Marie-Therese Walter. She was a 17 year old girl and they were secretly seeing each other while Picasso was still married to Olga. Soon Marie was pregnant and Marie found out about this. Picasso and Olga separated but they remained married so she would not receive half of Picasso’s wealth.
In 1965, the last year of her life, Dorothea Lange was honored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City . Elizabeth Partridge, daughter of photographer Rondal Partridge who worked as Lange's assistant for many years, has written about this remarkable artist in the biography Restless Spirit: the Life and Work of Dorothea Lange. In 1972 the Whitney Museum of Art used twenty-seven of her photographers in an exhibit called “executive Order 9066” It highlighted the Japanese Internment, During World War II. On December 15th 2008, she was inducted into the California hall of fame. Dorothea once said: “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.