Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Laura Chessin

Architecture, Art & Planning

Richmond, VA

lchessin@vcu.edu


Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
still asking weird questions, exploring big ideas

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
The Divine Comedy with a Dante Scholar

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
That the blank page/canvas is terrifying to everyone.

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
Filming in Panama, Biking in India, Having a son at the age of 45. Run Boston Marathon (2x 2013-2014. finished before the bombs)

Share any random or surprising encounters with Cornell or Cornellians since you left.
Am now working with birds. Began my passion at —where else— Sapsucker Woods.