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August 28, 2018 - "Everyone has a defining moment that shapes their future. I was always a 'dancing machine' and increasingly aware of embracing my African culture. My defining wake-up bell rang when as a young adult, I found myself on the shores of West...

April 06, 2018 - "Hold the door for everyone. Make eye contact when you listen. Money should be a side effect of doing a job you love. Authority is earned. Go outside. Do the best you can, when you can. View vulnerability and tenacity with equal...

March 13, 2018 - Graffiti sprawled across freight trains whirring by, the blur of colors and abstraction of lettering through movement, the holes in my grandmother’s crocheted table cloth masked by layers of plastic and patterned textile coverings, an...

March 02, 2018 - "I always had my eye on the prize—the prize being to invent original art, near or over the contemporary edge, in the world arena and to be recognized for it. That’s the hardest thing to do. I am a postmodernist artist turned...

February 17, 2018 - "When you are married to a Columbus police officer, you get to see a different side of the city you live in. You have an awareness of things that you might not have even given a second thought to since they don’t affect your daily life....

February 09, 2018 - "I was just barely tall enough to see the fruit bowl on the table. Intrigued, I noticed that the rim was an ellipse rather than a circle. I grabbed a paper and pencil and drew the ellipse. This was the first time I saw myself as different...

January 30, 2018 - "Art is the discovery of who you are meant to be. I am a writer. I was born with a natural fascination for people and a vivid imagination. As a child, instead of one imaginary friend, I created a village of fictional characters to play...

January 26, 2018 - "I started drawing from an early age; making efforts to project senses out of stick figures and engender a distinct sense of emotionality as necessary. My Father was a contractor who specialized in painting and decoration through whom I...

January 09, 2018 - "Music, dance, and art has been in me since I was a kid. Upon seeing Michael Jackson’s Thriller (along with Jackson’s iconic Motown 25 performance with the debut of the moonwalk), I knew from that moment, that dancing would forever change...

January 04, 2018 - "There is something uniquely gratifying about being the first to identify that special something in a student, an artist or a record, and sharing that observation with the rest of the world! The adrenalin rush that comes from seeing talent...