\u201cAs a cultural worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible\u2026But I think for any artist your job is determined by the community you\u2019re identifying with.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n She doesn\u2019t explicitly mention values here but we typically share them with the communities we are a part of.\u00a0 At the macro and micro level, these relationships are constant feedback loops. My values are refined and activated by the communities I am a part of; in turn, these communities are always changing (as all things do), putting my values to the test.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n From the organizations I choose to lead and serve, to the way I facilitate meetings, my values are there. And just like the salt in the stew, they cannot be separated. I don\u2019t want them to be.<\/span><\/p>\n \n I created a graphic about how my values, work and every-day decision making coalesce. As I was doodling, I was thinking about Toni Cade Bambara\u2019s prolific words: \u201cAs a cultural worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible\u2026But I think for any artist your job is determined by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":2792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,23],"tags":[566,587,567],"coauthors":[588],"class_list":{"0":"post-2788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conversation","8":"category-stories-from-the-field","9":"tag-core-values","10":"tag-jess-solomon","11":"tag-values","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Values](\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Values-Doodles1.jpg\")
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