Angela Gregory probably decided to make art her career because of a strong familial support system. Her father, an academic, was a well-respected professor of engineering at Tulane University, and her mother graduated from the Newcomb College School of Art before becoming an artist and teacher. Gregory attended a private school for young women where her mother worked as an art teacher, and not surprising, she was able to benefit from her mother's inspirational lead.

Gregory became adept at clay modeling and relief casting by the young age of fourteen while taking summer classes at Tulane University. She entered Newcomb College School of Art in 1921. In her first three years at Newcomb, Gregory r...