Bri O’Donnell

What Art School Did Not Prepare Me For

Well over four years ago, I took one of, what society thinks, the most dangerous and risky decisions to heart and switched academic careers. I went from being enrolled in an associate’s criminal justice curriculum to transferring and attending a four year private art institution with the end goal of having my name alongside “bachelor’s” and “illustration” written in some fancy ass serif font on an almost one hundred and sixty thousand dollar piece of paper. I got that piece of paper after the whirlwind of an experience that turned out to be art school.