Sneak Peek: Janis Burley Wilson Podcast

Janis Burley Wilson: I'm very passionate about what I do. I care about it deeply, and I also feel a responsibility to the African American community, the Black community, to the community as a whole, to showcase and highlight and illuminate the gifts, the challenges, the triumphs of Black artists-- here in our region, and also globally. I think that we have an opportunity to have a global reach with our programming, and I'm committed to that. As you said, I'm the artistic director, so I'm thinking about what I want to share with our attendees, with our patrons, but I'm also thinking about how to pay for it, how to hire people that also share that passion to fulfill the mission of the center, which is to be a home for art, and storytelling, and exchange of ideas around the African American experience and the African diaspora. Finding people that are committed to that, as well, is not always easy to do and when we find one another, we rejoice in our ability to do that.