
Creating safe and liberating spaces in dance
Choreographer and organizer MK Abadoo on the importance of community-led, inclusive work.
Choreographer and organizer MK Abadoo on the importance of community-led, inclusive work.
This full time artist-mom has a fluctuating income and made $14,000 last year.
Living here allows me to maintain a pretty comfortable lifestyle and focus on my art, whereas I would not necessarily be afforded the same opportunity elsewhere
The Artist Pay Project is a series exploring how artists in the U.S. survive and thrive amid a cost of living crisis
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"It feels incredibly unsustainable to do the artist grind, but I don’t want that to scare me."
At the beginning of the year, I had the pleasure of speaking to MK Abadoo, a choreographer, organizer, and educator based in the DMV. An excerpt of our interview.
Choreographer and organizer MK Abadoo on the importance of community-led, inclusive work.
Family support and rental income helps sustain this artist's practice.
"Most of the artists I know, we all work day jobs. Many of us work as educators, none of us are getting paid enough at one job."