#3: Mandy Blankenship, Artist

While I've been following Mandy's work for some time, I hadn't realized until we spoke for this interview that she is mom to a child with special needs. Her daughter, Etta, has Turner Syndrome. After a four year battle with infertility, Mandy found out about her daughter's diagnosis early on in her high-risk pregnancy, which ended in a premature delivery at 34 weeks.