Mike Henderson - "By Any Means Necessary, I Will Keep Being an Artist." : vimarsana.com

After retiring in 2012 from UC Davis, where he was an art professor for 43 years—and on the eve of a solo show at the Manetti Shrem Museum—Mike Henderson reflects on shining shoes as a young man in Missouri, seeing his soul in Van Gogh's "Potato Eaters," believing he had lost decades' worth of paintings in a fire, and securing his place in one of the greatest university art departments ever assembled.

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