Artful journey

Q&A: Karelyn Siegler has trod down some unusual paths in finding her calling as a painter and entrepreneur | Marvin Olasky

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Hardly anyone's artistic career is a straight line from schooling to success. I recently interviewed Karelyn Siegler, 52, an internationally recognized painter and professor at two schools in Manhattan, Parsons and The King's College. Below are excerpts about how she found her calling.

Did you study art in college? I went to Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Virginia, where I majored in art and minored in dance.

Then you became a dancer. I came to New York with a scholarship and studied for about five or six years with Martha Graham. But when you get to be about 28 in New York and all the baby ballerinas are coming up, you're starting to feel old—at 28, when most careers are just beginning, you're realizing that you have to begin thinking of other options.

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