Show up, dive in, stay at it.

These statements resonate with me and are the foundation for why I make my life's work the practice of supporting artists and arts managers in creating sustainable business ventures. 

Arts are essential. They describe and critique our society.  

- Robert Redford

This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

- Toni Morrison 

Take your broken heart, make it into art.

-Meryl Streep quoting Princess Leia Carrie Fisher 

Show up, dive in, stay at it.  

- President Obama