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Senior painting student, Christina Dostaler works inside her studio as seen from outside the Dodge Building at the Kansas City Art Institute. Dostaler described moving into this bigger studio earlier in the school year because it offered an additional window. ”It was a hard transition because the previous student had a ton of paint spilled all over the floor so I came in an scraped it all off so that there wasn’t that history from another artist. If it were my own paint that would be fine but if it someone else’s colors, then their identity embodies into that studio so its important to me to start with that clean slate."
Senior painting student, Christina Dostaler works inside her studio as seen from outside the Dodge Building at the Kansas City Art Institute. Dostaler described moving into this bigger studio earlier in the school year because it offered an additional window. ”It was a hard transition because the previous student had a ton of paint spilled all over the floor so I came in an scraped it all off so that there wasn’t that history from another artist. If it were my own paint that would be fine but if it someone else’s colors, then their identity embodies into that studio so its important to me to start with that clean slate."