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comfortably
inside his sail-
boat cabin —
which is com-
plete with a fake
porthole, maps
of his favorite
sailing destina-
tions and a nau-
tical flap that
spells his name.
Meanwhile,
Benjamin is
happy in his
rainforest.
Benjamin
wanted a real
jungle, with ani-
mals running
about his room
freely," Illman
explains, adding
that his mother
compromised by
purchasing fake
butterflies, hum- An Illman butterfly at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum.
mingbirds, drag-
onflies and silk
in retail sales and marketing, enrolled
vines to run across the ceiling.
in the Parsons School of Design and
Though Illman hasn't lived in the
began painting murals.
Detroit area for even a year, her repu-
Still, she felt lost, and she enrolled
tation preceded her, and her work is
in Fordham Law School in
on display at the Ann Arbor Hands-
Manhattan. She then married and
On Museum. After she donated a
moved to Cincinnati, where she fin-
mural for the museum's classroom
ished her law degree but decided not
area, she was commissioned to create
to practice. In Cincinnati, Illman
"Under the Sea," a lively mural sur-
launched her painting career.
rounding the gallery's water play area.
Now, she'd like to transform restau-
Her mural in the classroom area, "See
rant walls into art, and combine her
How We Grow," traces the butterfly's
painting and law degree as a law
origins.
school lecturer.
"I am absolutely tickled with her
At the end of her law studies at the
work. The murals are magical and
University of Cincinnati, Illman knew
very whimsical," says John Bowditch,
she would never practice law. So she
Hands-On Museum exhibits director.
asked her anti-trust professor, Christo
"Nancy catches the wonder of the
Lassiter, if she could paint her final
magical world and presents it in a way exam. Impressed by her chutzpa,
that very small children — and adults
Lassiter approved.
— can understand. There is an emo-
Illman painted a controversial
tional quality to her work, which is
mural that illustrated a judicial
essential."
interpretation of illegal restraint of
Like her artwork, Illman's life
trade. The mural showed a judge
hasn't been ordinary. She was in the
smacking a nude woman, as more
second grade at age 5 and graduated
nude people and athletes in uniform
from high school at age 16. The
looked on. Illman and Lassiter
daughter of an orthopedic surgeon
wrote separately about the painting
and a modern dancer, Illman was
in the Benjamin Cardozo Law
born on a Little Rock, Ark., U.S.
School Review.
Air Force Base and raised on Long
Prof. Lassiter still uses the mural to
Island.
liven up an otherwise dry class. ❑
A talented violinist, she aspired to
be a musician. Instead, at her parents'
urging, Illman enrolled at Harvard,
Nancy Illman can be reached at
where she earned a bachelor's degree
(248) 980-6565 or
in English literature.
members@aol.comincillman
She moved to Manhattan, dabbled