Doreen Tunnell, 83, Atlanta artist who earned a degree at age 65
Fast-forward to the late 1980s. Mrs. Tunnell, by then 60 years old, decided to earn a degree at the ACA. She took a wide-ranging curriculum -- learning about welding, sculpture and print-making as well as painting -- and at age 65 was rewarded with a bachelor of fine arts in 1993.
The other media were passing acquaintances; Mrs. Tunnell continued to focus on transferring her thoughts and vision to canvas. Throughout the 1990s she shared a studio at the King Plow Arts Center with sculptor Donna Pickens. There Mrs. Tunnell painted, and she taught and encouraged aspiring artists, ranging from children to intermediate-level adults.
“The last couple of decades of Doreen’s life have been a time of fulfillment for her,” said Ms. Pickens, now an associate curator of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
In her trademark nerd specs and cloud of black hair, she appears among the damned in Dante's Inferno (illustrating the belief that journalistic neutrality is a moral cop-out), as the statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down in al-Firdos Square
From the realm of the musically sacred and the artistically sublime, Jameson had fallen into a scene from Dante's Inferno. Andersonville was a vile, overcrowded, open-air 
"In my piece 'Civilization' it's the story of Dante's Inferno, the spiritual journey from hell to heaven. In 'Evolution' it's a narrative about conflict throughout the ages." Both works will be on view at the Santa Monica Museum of Art starting
