About the speaker
Kate Snow is a film-based photography and mixed media collage artist working in Cleveland and the Associate Director of Zygote Press, an artist workshop promoting contemporary fine-art printing. Through advocacy, exhibitions, community programs, and affordable, professional workspace, Zygote stimulates collective exchange for artists in Northeast Ohio. Kate began incorporating print into her work in 2010 and has continued to explore the medium through fine art editions, printing on clay, and creating broadly distributed posters and ephemera. She has taught workshops throughout Cleveland in association with Art House, HeightsArts, and Zygote Press. As an art educator she is an advocate for the practice of print making, which has created community, cultivated cultivated countless collaborations, innovation and exchange of ideas in Cleveland. Currently, she creates a retail line of stationery and home goods under the name Four Fish Ink with her husband. Kate lives with Zygote’s Shop Greyhound, Nina Totenberg.
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We didn't go there because we thought we were going to solve anything, we didn't go to feel good about ourselves. We went to help people amplify their voices, we wanted to acknowledge their lived experience without judgement and we wanted to stand in solidarity and say; "Yeah! You know what, you're right, this isn't fair, this shouldn't be happening and I'm going to be here with you."- that's Empathy.
When we're looking at empathy and sympathy, we have to ask ourselves, is this self-preservation or self protection? And you have to be really honest if you want to answer that question.
Sympathy doesn't require real connection. In fact, it keeps you at a distance- a safe distance.
Empathy on the other hand is hard. This means you have to feel something with someone. That means you have to feel sadness and heartache and loss, and disappointment. A sense of failure and loneliness. And that's hard.
It keeps you safe, it let's you think you're doing something without actually having to do something.
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