August 2023

Grants, fellowships and residencies are ways self-employed artists can sustain themselves and their work. Between 2012 and 2016, around 34 percent of artists were self-employed, compared to nine percent of all other workers.  We now know that number is even higher, with 77 percent of artists going the self-employed route by 2021. With the majority […]

  Over the past decade, Twist Out Cancer’s presence in greater Austin has grown in a beautiful way. The growth is traced back to Alana Dugandzic, who became a Brushes with Cancer Inspiration for the first time in 2012.  The experience was so transformative for Alana that as a board member, she helped bring Brushes