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Jennifer Rose Davis

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Renaissance Woman

Tue, Sep 1, 2015 |

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

Fri, Jul 31, 2015 |

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

Tue, Jun 30, 2015 |

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

Thu, May 28, 2015 |

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

Mon, Apr 27, 2015 |

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

East Austin

Direct Quote: Digging into Austin’s East Side

Fri, Mar 27, 2015 |

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

Thu, Feb 26, 2015 |

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

Wed, Feb 4, 2015 |

"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

Celia Hughes

Direct Quote: Helping the Blind Experience the Arts

Thu, Nov 13, 2014 |

“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

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