Shonna Pryor Interview

What does receiving an unrestricted grant at this particular moment make possible within your practice? Has it shifted the way you are thinking, working, or planning for what comes next?

The obvious difference that an unrestricted grant at this particular moment makes possible within my practice is that it expands options and possibilities that weren’t immediately accessible to me otherwise. The exciting thing about that, is that suddenly I’m looking at a blank canvas on which I can begin to imagine more broadly what to manifest. That option alone has placed me in a deep contemplative mode: I now have this thing that is suggesting I can think bigger, impact more broadly, and lean a little deeper into autonomous creative pathways. I don’t think that happens often enough to be able to explore the furthest corners of one’s self, creatively. Who am I really, when options and possibilities open up when adequate resources are made available? What have I otherwise been missing out on—and consequently, unable to share with my family, my community, and even myself? What comes with this generous grant is a responsibility to think very carefully about what this needs to look like, because realistically, how often will this opportunity present itself? Although I don’t yet know decisively what it will be, I’m asking myself lots of careful questions and It’s not something I take lightly. What I do know is that it will support my core practice of care, consciousness, and even beauty. I’m very grateful and deeply honored to be a recipient of the care and generosity of the Threewalls organization.