Anya Liptser vividly remembers the cold Sunday autumn afternoon in Moscow when her father took her to her first drawing class. The first-grader did not go willingly. She wanted to stay home and watch a cartoon show on TV. Fortunately, her father insisted. “We arrived at the artist's house – a Jewish family who had been waiting for years for a permit to leave Russia – and I fell in love with the classes. I spent about seven years there, almost every day, until they received a permit and left