OBRA: The Art of Work

Where I began was in the mid-eighties, I was working in the jewelry industry in sales in Australia and my background was in opals.

I was 16 when I started to work and I went to retail, like Windsor Fashions and Wild Pair Shoes at The Block, Pier1 Imports, and then I went

Writing and food happened separately. I’d always communicated well through writing. But I never thought about it as a job.

Erin Olsen Director of Operations, Kaua‘i Humane Society This was definitely not the career path that I had planned or knew that I would...

Denise Disharoon Falconer Falconry is thousands of years old and it’s the tradition with taking wild quarry with a trained bird of prey,...

Terese Pearson Pearson’s Port Usually for articles, they want me to start at the beginning of 51 years ago at Pearson’s Port, which is...

When I started modeling, I wanted to do plus size because I was curvy. And I was still the petite plus, I barely had my toe in plus. If you

My grandmother sewed but my mother does not at all. Up until the age of middle school, I saw my grandmother sewing but I really didn’t take

I moved from the Midwest with my first husband back in the 80s. He’s a musician and we both got into the music industry on the business end

I come from a family background of art so it was always around, introduced to it really young, taking life drawing classes and really engage