Jenn porreca biography sample

Website: www.porrecastudio.com

Painter: San Francisco

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Have you ever thought about what creates a sharp turn in life? What causes a person who’s floating rather comfortably with the current to suddenly grasp the oars—and start rowing against it?

“I did nonprofit work through most of my twenties: fund raising and grant writing, for many hours each week.

I had been doing my art on the side. I did maybe one painting a year and it was very crude. Just one-color pieces, out of the tube.

Jenn porreca biography sample pdf

I didn’t even mix my paint.

I remember all through my twenties thinking, ‘In another life I’ll be a painter…’”

Nolita

    That other life came more quickly than she’d ever imagine.

During her late twenties a series of events and a particularly difficult loss, that of a close friend, began to weigh heavily. And Jenn Porreca, nonprofit fundraiser, daughter of a tombstone mason,

burned out.

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