Meet LGBT artists, artists of color, and artists from around the world as they discuss the gifts, costs, and liberating power of pursuing a creative life.
Is the all-out pursuit of self-sufficiency as an artist worth the sacrifices it often requires? Throughout her twenties and thirties, Stephanie Elizondo Grist couldn't stop worrying about whether or not she was prioritizing writing over everything else—from putting off having children to living a nomadic life.To save rent - leads her to satisfaction or regret. After a breakup and a serious health crisis in her early forties, she decided to turn to other female artists to get their perspectives on this eternal question: Is art enough? Submit to usArt Above Everything Writers Legendary writers, visual artists, dancers, and musicians from around the world talk candidly about their art, what it requires, what it gives them, and what it costs. Elizondo Grist begins her journey in a traditional Indian dance village, then meets more than a hundred artists in Rwanda, Romania, Qatar, Iceland, Mexico, New Zealand, Cuba and the United States. Explores artists including Rwandan playwright Hope Azida, who confronted ethnic tensions in her quest for reconciliation through...Theater in the Wake of Genocide; And the Romanian painter Florica Previnda, who was employed at a regional factory during the Ceausescu dictatorship, but never gave up her brush.
