{"id":11972,"date":"2020-04-22T23:25:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T23:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/randy-rollison\/"},"modified":"2020-04-23T00:16:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T00:16:55","slug":"randy-rollison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/randy-rollison\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Rollison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10263 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Randy-color-300x300-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Randy-color-300x300-1.png 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Randy-color-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Randy-color-696x696.png 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Randy-color-420x420.png 420w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Randy-color.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/>Randy&rsquo;s job is to provide the overarching vision and direction for <a href=\"https:\/\/theintersection.org\/\">Intersection for the Arts<\/a>, which includes finding new ways to support artists.<\/p>\n<p>With over thirty years experience as an artistic director, he co-founded New York City&rsquo;s HOME for Contemporary Theatre and Art and HERE Arts Center, served as the executive artistic director for Cleveland Public Theatre, and has a long career as an actor and director in NYC and regionally.<\/p>\n<p>He joined Intersection for the Arts in 2008 and became Executive Director in 2015. When he&rsquo;s not keeping the trains running at Intersection, you can find him cooking adventurous meals, traveling, researching his family tree, or working (at a snail&rsquo;s pace) on his memoirs.<\/p>\n<p>The book mentioned in the interview is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book\/9780520267190\/autobiography-of-mark-twain-volume-1\">Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10264\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10264 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dancingearth-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dancingearth-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dancingearth-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dancingearth-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dancingearth-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dancingearth-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dancingearth-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dancingearth-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dancingearth-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dancingearth-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dancingearth-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancing Earth is an Indigenous dance company that aims to inspire creativity, grow cultural consciousness, and support Indigenous dance.<i>Intersection for the Arts is a historic arts and culture nonprofit that provides Bay Area based artists and arts organizations with fiscal sponsorship, resources, space, and support to grow their artistic practices.<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10265\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10265 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/redpoppy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/redpoppy-1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/redpoppy-199x300-1.jpg 199w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/redpoppy-278x420.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Poppy Art House is an artistic and cultural center and venue in the historic San Francisco Mission district. They host diverse performances, exhibitions, workshops, and artist residencies that creatively address social, political, and community issues.<i>Intersection for the Arts is a historic arts and culture nonprofit that provides Bay Area based artists and arts organizations with fiscal sponsorship, resources, space, and support to grow their artistic practices.<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy&rsquo;s job is to provide the overarching vision and direction for Intersection for the Arts, which includes finding new ways to support artists. With over thirty years experience as an artistic director, he co-founded New York City&rsquo;s HOME for Contemporary Theatre and Art and HERE Arts Center, served as the executive artistic director for Cleveland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11995,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11972\/revisions\/11995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}