During last week’s panel discussion in conjunction with M.A. Peers‘s exhibition at the 鶹Ӱ Museum of Art, Peers recalled a pivotal moment during her graduate studies. Painter Linda Day told her to “paint the most embarrassing thing you can think of.” Hence, Peers’s ongoing series of mammoth dog portraits was—in the punny words of panel moderator Doug Harvey—“unleashed” from her psyche and studio.