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I'm Marsha Connell and
I grew up on the East Coast. When I came to California I discovered you could see
the bones of the earth.
On the East Coast, things were covered with trees.
I've been here so long that I really feel like a native Californian now,
because I've lived in California since 1974.
I went to school in
Upstate New York for my undergraduate work.
I went to Skidmore College where I was an art major.
And all my teachers came from Yale, so I had a big
influence from people like Josef Albers, who developed the color theory that's used
in all the color classes.
And then I went to
my graduate school at San Francisco State.
And I went there because I got...I was a painter
and I did a lot of drawings. But all of the sudden, I got tired
of making marks on paper and I wanted to make things and construct things.
And I bent the paper and I cut it and I started bending metal and
using clay and all kinds of things. So I decided to go to graduate school in
sculpture
and I decided to study...choose who I wanted to study with, and I studied
with Stephen De Staebler, who was a great humanist.
And I've taught at the Junior College for a long time, since I was in graduate
school
in the late 1970s.