Venus Rose: What Walking Away From Medicine Cost Her
Venus Rose, Founder: Haus of Creators
Every weekend she boarded a 12-hour night bus from Greensboro to Chinatown. Her grandfather had no idea.
Venus Rose grew up in a family of teachers and was on track for medicine. In high school she rode one bus to a medical school program while the art kids rode another. Staying felt like living a lie. When she dropped the classes her grandparents had paid for, her grandfather cried, then refused to pay for New York.
What followed was a summer of seeing New York license plates everywhere, a 3am check of her bank account, and years of building the images…
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