The Roadtrip to Glenna Goodacre


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  • Has been sculpting for 40 years.
  • Always wanted to be an artist, but felt pressure to get her degree, start a family, “do what women are supposed to do…says somebody.”
  • Had a sculpting professor who told her she couldn’t “see three-dimensional,” discouraged her from pursuing it.
  • She was a painter for 20 years; years down the line, someone encouraged her to try sculpting again.
  • As she began selling a few pieces, she slowly regained her confidence in sculpting.
  • Designed the Sacagawea gold coin, the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington D.C., helped design the New Mexico state quarter.
  • Says that because people are her passion, she most enjoys sculpting likenesses of people.
  • Doesn’t care if people don’t like her “funny-looking ballerinas”-she likes making her sculptures so much, she’s stopped caring what people think.

by: Erin Schooley