b'visiting artist NELL PAINTERHISTORIAN-TURNED-ARTIST NELL PAINTER known also as Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton Universitywas invited to campus to share her work and inspiring journey as detailed in Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over. In 2011, she earned an M.F.A. in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her artistic process is a unique blend of the manual and digital as she toggles between hand and computer in ways that recall her former life as an academic. In 2018, the American Historical Association honored her scholarly excellence, and in332019 her memoir was a finalist for the American BookCritics Circle Award for autobiography. Painter is also the author of The History of White People and lives and works in Newark, New Jersey. Painters You Say This Cant Really Be America was acquired by SCMA in 2017 and we were pleased to welcome her as a visiting artist in March 2019. The muse-um, in collaboration with the Design Thinking Intiative, the Office of Multicultural A fairs and The Narratives Project (part of Smiths Wurtele Center for Leadership), presented a suite of programs related to her art and her story. In the galleries and over lunch, Painter met with a group of Smith students about her work and her evolu-tion as an artist. That evening, a community discussion about Painters memoir was followed by a public talk,Vision and Meaning in My Art. You Say This CantReally Be America also inspired an interactive response activity for students at the Mwangi Cultural Center, a physical space for cultural organizations and students of color to engage in holistic programming, host intellectu-ally enriching discussions and effectively build community. visiting artist: Nell Painter'