Off Topic, A Piece from Nancy Beiman

She was there, too. by Nancy Beiman

NPR interviewed me in 2014. Read on Substack

The number A113 appears in [yesterday]’s FurBabies strip. It’s the number of our classroom at Cal Arts. Click on the link to see the entire comic.

https://www.gocomics.com/furbabies/2025/02/16

NPR interviewed me for an hour in 2014 after a Vanity Fair article appeared about the program. Here it is.

https://www.npr.org/2014/02/16/277882145/disneys-first-crop-of-trained-animators-profiled

Leslie Margolin, the other girl in the first class, was not interviewed. A group photo was taken of other graduates for Vanity Fair. I am not in it. Tim Burton was Photoshopped in, but no one would do that for me even though I offered to go to New York for the photo shoot.

The so called Cal Arts Mafia only worked for the male students.

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