OBRA: The Art of Work

I’m a retired showgirl. I was a showgirl on The Strip in Folies Bergère for 12 years until it closed. Before that, I’d always been a dancer. I danced in ballet companies, modern companies. I have a degree in dance from Arizona State. I danced overseas in a small cabaret show and then I got the gig in Folies and moved to Vegas.

Transitioning into the wedding world, that was something else. With big things in my life, the Lord always just placed the words in my mind

I always wanted to be a television news reporter, that was a big goal of mine. I worked in radio, did live shows, did news shows, and then I

Heather McLarty Artist blacksmith Looking back at my childhood, I did make stuff; I’ve always kind of made things. It never occurred to...

Julie Carpenter Musician/production music composer I came to Los Angeles in the early 2000s from Texas, where I had grown up. I grew up...

Dydia DeLyser Cultural-historical geographer, writer, researcher Professor of geography, California State University Fullerton Most...

Nicole Holland Cactus Mart, Yucca Valley, CA My history is in the low desert. I was raised between the high desert and the low desert; my...

Meera Iyer Food scientist I became vegan around freshman year of high school, so around 1999 or 2000. The options that were there for...

Trisha Hanudel-Lopez San Pedro Soapworks I guess I’ll start with how all this came to be. It started in 2016, even before that… let’s put...

Shadia Derbyshire Muralist I was in kindergarten and you know how you learn about different professions? I remember there were flash...