Some days feel heavier than others, and that’s when Studio on the Block matters most.
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Although I was set to facilitate this workshop, I still didn't have the means to acquire the teaching artist supplies I needed. But my inner drive to provide my skills and experience with those who I believe I share a profound connection with, continued to push me forward to do it anyway.
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In the nonprofit sector, much of the language used to describe program recipients is patronizing, full of bias, and connected with stigma—as a culture, we have been conditioned to understand the charity sector as the “haves” giving to the “have-nots”. At NOMAD we come to nonprofit work from a different mindset: functioning in an ecosystem of people where everyone has something to contribute. We try to reflect this in our writing.
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…we’re all standing in the river of life, and if something floats by—an idea, an email, a gem of a moment—and you don’t act on it right then, or mark it somehow for future action, it just continues downstream.
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People truly LOVE to gather and donate ‘trash’ when they know it is destined to be art.
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