How Amy Sherald Gets It Done

The Cut

New York Magazine

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🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this installment of our "How I Get It Done" series, Stella Bugbee talks with artist Amy Sherald. When she was selected to paint First Lady Michelle Obama's official portrait last fall, Amy Sherald's entire life changed virtually overnight. Amy tells us about how she's managing her newfound fame, how she negotiates her busy schedule with a chronic health condition, her desire for motherhood, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.0	Welcome to the cut on Tuesdays. On Thursday, I'm Stella Bugbee, editor-in it done, the cut series about ambitious and the way
0:56.5	it done. The Cut series about ambitious women and the way they live. How they
1:01.2	deal with their inboxes, people's feelings, their grocery shopping, their
1:05.0	mourning routines.
1:06.7	What do they know that we don't?
1:08.3	What do they do that we can steal?
1:10.3	It's part advice column, part love letter, part voyeurism.
1:14.0	Literally, life hacking.
1:16.0	This week I talked to Amy Cheryl.
1:25.0	Amy is funny and warm and a brilliant artist.
1:28.0	And the place she's in in her life right now is completely fascinating.
1:31.0	Amy went from being a relatively unknown artist in person, working on her own, making ends
1:36.3	meet however she could, to being extremely famous in the art world and in high demand.
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