Another casualty of COVID-19.


Meet Stormie Parker.
As a ceramic artist, Stormie Parker is an often overlooked small business owner who, due to the nature of her work, will receive nothing from the forthcoming stimulus package.
But Parker like all entrepreneurs has a product to sell so she needs to get that product into the marketplace. Her work is not "essential" in the big scheme of things. Her market is closed until some date in the unforeseeable future.
It takes Parker months to prepare for a show, her latest is a one-artist show entitled Endangered Americas. It has been set up at the Fort Worth Stockyards' Artes de la Rosa Cultural Center for the Arts, Rose Marine Theater. And is ready for a viewing that isn't going to happen except in this video.
Watch as artists Stormie Parker and Bernardo Vallarino discuss Endangered Americas.

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