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PAGE 6 - WESTSIDE MESSENGER - <strong>February</strong> 12, <strong>2023</strong><br />
ART PROGRAM<br />
Continued from page 5<br />
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academic prowess or otherwise — just life<br />
experience. I thought it couldn’t hurt so I<br />
applied and forgot about it.<br />
Q - When did you learn you had been<br />
selected? What was your reaction?<br />
A - I almost missed the boat on it<br />
because the only email I received in my<br />
inbox was to tell me that they are giving it<br />
away to someone else because they hadn’t<br />
heard from me. Turns out, all previous<br />
emails were showing up in my junk folder.<br />
My reaction? I was honored, of course! This<br />
is the first residency I’ve ever accepted that<br />
will host other artists. Up until now, I have<br />
been working on an island in Sweden completely<br />
out of my mind alone at a residency<br />
that is for much more personal creative<br />
pursuits.<br />
Q - Throughout the last decade, the<br />
westside has made an effort to become<br />
more of an arts-centered community. They<br />
have a music and art festival in the summer<br />
(Summer Jam West), they have a nonprofit<br />
that works to bring public art to the<br />
area (Hilltop Arts Collective), and they<br />
have multiple murals, public art installations<br />
and artists exhibitions held at area<br />
businesses now. What was the art scene<br />
like when you were growing up in the community?<br />
If it was non-existent, where<br />
would you go to see and experience art?<br />
This photo showcases work by Musca.<br />
A - There was no art scene at all on the<br />
westside as I was growing up. In fact, I was<br />
not well received as a freely expressive person<br />
either, as I wore it on the outside as a<br />
punk rocker. I was met with a lot of aggression<br />
and insults there: It made me tough<br />
everywhere else but there. I took the COTA<br />
bus to the Short North for gallery hops and<br />
snuck into campus bars. I never could’ve<br />
imagined the westside would see its new<br />
renaissance as it is today.<br />
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