The Pay it Forward Arts Fund (PIFAF) is a gift of artist Barbara Salsberg Mathews and her husband Bruce Mathews. The award helps local artists, in any discipline, fund art projects that “pay it forward” and benefit the community.
Artist Witness for Fuck Perfect, Aubrey Szabo, reflects on their experience and what their work, Crown Shyness, means to them.
As I write this note, the first snow is layering the outside world with what looks, from here, quite a bit like magic. I’m struck by how something so familiar - I have seen many decades’ worth of first snows! - can also bring a jolt of surprise and of transformation, every time. So it is with the work of Art Not Shame.
I was both excited and anxious/nervous about beginning the eight week journey that would be “Fuck Perfect”. Excited because of how much I believe in the ethic & mandate of Art Not Shame and loved the idea of a deep-dive into perfectionism and exploring how to begin freeing ourselves from its tentacles. Anxious because facilitating such a workshop would be challenging in the most ideal of circumstances and we were going to try to do it online over Zoom! Whoa!
