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“Clothing is a tool we use everyday to create our own identity, which in turns shows what we represent and helps us to connect to our beliefs and to those around us.”
Everything is changing all the time and so how we make our art is constantly in shift—this is what Susan Russell helps us navigate in this dynamic conversation that took place on May 14th, 2020.
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Jade is a Truth Teller. She says, “This is the way things are and this is how we need to become in response to the way things are” and there's no beating around the bush, there is no waiting for the people to get over themselves because there's something real to be said in real to be done. That’s Jade in her soul. The way this looks in her life is that she is a scholar, writer, mystic, and educator. She reads tarot and oracle cards. In all of the things, she centers black indigenous people of color (BIPOC). She's an artist and a pedagogical master, a theoretical and embodied philosopher.
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“Communication is simply a set of tools we use to come into common experience with someone else… We say, ‘I see you and you see me,’ and we ask, ‘Who am I in this interaction?’”
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Photo: Penn State News
Susan Russell is a master communicator in all things human. She is a theater professor at Penn State University and a communication facilitator for communities in isolation from the world, ranging from middle school students to PhD-wielding scientists to the wisdom elders in our retirement communities. She shares about what it takes to connect with others and to communicate what we really need and think.
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