Episode 13: DIVA CATS Pt. 1

<h2><strong>Episode 13: DIVA CATs</strong></h2><h2><strong><u>Threshold Questions and Delicious Quotes</u></strong></h2><p><strong>What’s A CAT? </strong></p><blockquote><em>I usually bring a packet of seeds and give everybody some seeds. Because I think that that's what we're doing. Planting those seeds in our field, right, ... because we're growing things and that notion of working with people, collaborating conceiving things together, imagining things together and co- creating things together. </em><strong><em>Roseann Weiss</em></strong></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><blockquote><em>Actually, I don't teach, Parker Palmer says, you can't teach anybody anything, you can't teach math, can't teach science, you can't teach art, all you can teach is who you are. And so, I've spent most of my life being a listener and listening for stories and then helping people tell their stories, </em><strong><em>Con Christeson</em></strong></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><blockquote><em>I make art in the community I'm a community caregiver, whatever is required, that's what I'm going to do. I'll go clean up the<u> </u>“beep” I just beeped myself. You know, sometimes I make that “beep”, and sometimes I clean it up. </em><strong><em>Pacia Anderson</em></strong></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><p><strong>How does your work show up in the community?</strong></p><blockquote><em>Taking what I've learned ... making work with other people, creating things that are visible to the community, building a community around the studio that I have in the </em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/cherokeeartdistrict/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Cherokee Arts Distric</em></a><em>t here in St. Louis ---a laboratory. </em> <strong><em>Con Christeson</em></strong></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><blockquote><em>I find that I'm a conduit or perhaps a bridge would be another way to talk about it. and maybe that's what training is. connecting people, putting people together, finding ways to put thin