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Fitting room: Local artists invite you to try on empathy in “Walk in My Shoes Closet”
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Fitting room: Local artists invite you to try on empathy in “Walk in My Shoes Closet”

By Nina Richards To Micah Kessel, assumption is the enemy of empathy. Empathy is the realization that each person has different, and equally valid, experiences and emotions that inform our every move. Which is why Kessel, Kelley Van Dilla, Adrienne Dent, and Annie Temmink have created an immersive experience to prompt empathic thinking and choice-making […]

C-VILLE Writers | July 17, 2019

Arts

Fitting room: Local artists invite you to try on empathy in “Walk in My Shoes Closet”

By Nina Richards To Micah Kessel, assumption is the enemy of empathy. Empathy is the realization that each person has different, and equally valid, experiences and emotions that inform our every move. Which is why Kessel, Kelley Van Dilla, Adrienne Dent, and Annie Temmink have created an immersive experience to prompt empathic thinking and choice-making […]

C-VILLE Writers | July 17, 2019

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