"her grandfather, ollie malcolm rush, "built this house for his family a long time ago.t's called a shotgun house." i've been making things all my life. and maybe an attraction for wood was nice. we lived on campus. it was a house on campus, so i grew up on campus. it was helpful that i could be exposed to a situation where there was wood, where there were carpenters. and i just kind of would make things. i made things from scraps of wood that were being thrown away. i made all sorts of stuff from leftover, thrown-out things. and i guess that eventually transformed into what later was called art. it was just never called that. it was called making things. it was called making things. i don't have a degree in art. i don't have an art degree at all. my undergraduate degree is in medical technology. my family always wanted a doctor, and so i headed toward the sciences. and going to medical school was something that i knew would be beneficial to the "race," world race, my race. but my thinking was, "i don't want to be a doctor who paints. i think i want to be a painter." it