The Beautiful Awful | Alyssa Monks | TEDxIndianaUniversity

Alyssa Monks describes the interaction of life, paint, and canvas through her development as an artist, and as a human. Alyssa Monks earned her B.A. from Boston College and she studied painting at Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence. She went on to complete her at the New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art in 2001. She teaches and lectures at universities and institutions nation wide, and is an adjunct professor at the New York Academy of Art. “My intention is to transfer the intima