Col Cseke

"I get to spend my days working alongside deaf and disabled artists. Too often living with a disability comes with massive barriers to employment, convoluted financial assistance programs, inequitable education opportunities, and stigma, then adding the precarious financial lives many artists face on top of that and the threat of poverty looms so darkly over many of my friends and colleagues. The rich art and culture coming out of the Deaf and disability communities gives me life though, and the work of VCC gives me hope."