Unlike the finance student who secures their job at UBS after a summer internship, or the pre-med student who is bogged down by the collection of biology textbooks that weighs more than them, Jane Cassidy’s calling to pursue art as her career came to her while she was caught up in the festivities of a Chemical Brothers concert.
Cassidy took a very nonlinear path to be a multidisciplinary art professor at Boston College. Growing up in Galway, Ireland, Cassidy said that up until her 20s, she was unsure of what she wanted to do professionally. Now, she can trace her transition to visual art back to her initial interest in music.
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