No Obstacles: Local graduates with Master’s through courage, determination
June 10, 2015
Play Ball
June 11, 2015
AGE: 26
TOWN: Brooklyn, New York, but from Cut Off.
FAMILY: The Smith family. Sister of Tyrus.
PROFESSION: Fine artist.
HOBBIES: Interior design, biking, basketball, drinking, getting caught in deep conversations, reading comic books and ‘nerding’ out.
WHAT IS A TALENT YOU HAVE FEW PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT: Ballet, tap and jazz dancing.
IF YOU HAD TO SPEND A YEAR ON A DESERTED ISLAND, WHAT ONE THING WOULD YOU TAKE ALONG: A multi-tool pocket knife.
YOU’RE A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR LOTTERY WINNER. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO: Buy or build Victorian style houses and castles in multiple locations.
WHO IS YOUR ROLE MODEL: My father because he always had solid and well thought out ideas about everything.
IF YOU WERE A SUPERHERO, WHO WOULD YOU BE AND WHAT WOULD YOUR SUPER POWER BE: I would be Zatana Zatara from the Justice League of America. She is a magician who can say anything she wants to happen backwards and it will come true as a spell.
TV SHOW GUILTY PLEASURE: “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” “True Detective” and “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”
PROUDEST MOMENT: Selling my most expensive art piece and getting more art jobs as a result.
WHAT’S ON YOUR NIGHTSTAND: My lamp, earrings hanging from my lamp, a note pad and pen, dollar bills, my glasses from the night before and pocket scraps.
HOW DO YOUR FRIENDS DESCRIBE YOU: Tenacious, genuine, socialite, over achiever, someone with the gift of gab and an all-around hustler.
DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM ADVENTURE: Traveling different parts of the world in the disguise of someone who is uneducated and inexperienced in order to learn more.
I WISH I COULD DO ___ BETTER: Con-artist the capitalization of the art world (more efficiently).
DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM JOB: Patron of the community arts both for profit and non-profit situations internationally.
AS A CHILD, WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GREW UP?
I wanted to be the president.
