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Direct Quote: Grief’s Gift
Melba Martinez has spent most of her life in the theater. She’s won numerous awards as both an actor and director, received a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studi...Read More
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Renaissance Woman
Jennifer Rose Davis started her career as a graphic designer. Tt was her hobbies and a later bachelor's degree in music that led her to a career in designing, a...Read More
Direct Quote: Keeper of the Creek
Joanna Wolaves is the executive of the Shoal Creek Conservancy, a nonprofit founded in 2013 to help restore and protect Austin’s Shoal Creek. ...Read More
Direct Quote: Celebrating Gender Diversity Through Art
Drew Riley is a 29-year-old Austin artist and creator of “Gender Portraits,” a series of paintings accompanied by personal stories of gender nonconformists....Read More
Direct Quote: An Inside View
Lauren Johnson knows all too well the stigma that's often associated with having a felony conviction. Johnson now advocates with Austin-based nonprofit Grassroo...Read More
Direct Quote: Words on a Stage
Three-time slam poetry champion, Ebony Stewart, travels around the country using spoken word to confront issues on sexual health, gender and body-image issues....Read More
Direct Quote: Digging into Austin’s East Side
Community activist Elizabeth Walsh believes there's room for a lot more more creativity and respect in the gentrification of East Austin....Read More
Direct Quote: Playing It Forward
Seventeen years after its humble start, Anthropos Arts has music teachers on 19 campuses reaching 150 students each semester....Read More
Direct Quote: True Colors
"These murals served a purpose. They were an educational tool ... they were informative historically, politically. They were about information that had been neg...Read More
Direct Quote: Helping the Blind Experience the Arts
“I’ve done audio description in a theater where people would come up to me and say, ‘What does it matter? They’re blind!’"...Read More