Hello Friends,
It is with great pleasure that I have the honor to participate with my print edition to benefit Some Serious Business. SSB Founding Director, Susan Martin has dedicated her life to the arts, artists and offering and promoting cultural programming for communities with passion. I have been a blessed first-hand recipient of her generosity of spirit, her love and belief of the arts’ ability to heal, transform and inspire. She has tirelessly continued presenting, announcing, witnessing, and cheerleading creativity during many extraordinary times.
Yet, Susan, with her remarkable resilience, wit, savvy sass, and gentle heart, shines and imagines celebration when many of us are stuck in our own shadow. Some Serious Business’ emphasis is to initiate art awakenings. In this new series, it’s to remind us of the power of the uncanny, a silliness, offering a glimpse of the absurd—that tongue in cheek nuance that makes life’s challenges almost bearable. During these past 3 years of dystopian mask insanity and isolation, it has been those moments of humor that have allowed me insight to see things with a new perspective. To bring a smile, a laugh, a glimmer, and to embrace the joy of being alive. Have a little funny.
—Karen Finley
