Sadie Dix is truly an everyday real world hero. Her remarkable personal story is an intertwined saga of an African American experience and of an inner city struggle while being inseparable from the dramatic story of "Scottsdale." A resident of forty years, Sadie was part of the residents group that led an uprising against former management, the story vividly reported by the Los Angeles Times of a period. Everything that was happening in "Scottsdale,"she'd seen it all. Throughout last decade Sadie led Scottsdale's slow, gradual, sometimes painful transition becoming the chair of the Scottsdale Association Board of Governors.
From the very beginning she became one of the foremost supporters of our Love My Neighbor project in "Scottsdale" judging that this was exactly what her long-suffered community needed to raise self-confidence and the belief that the change is possible. Throughout the Covid-19 crisis Sadie led the local distribution of food that we were delivering as an emergency relief. Now a Covid survivor herself, she actively supports our art contests as a tangible sign of recovery saying "we need exactly something like this exactly right now." A tenacious leader, Sadie is the street smart wisdom, the heart and the soul of this community. She is also an Artward Initiative Board Member.
In this interview Sadie shares her thoughts on the Love My Neighbor project and on the impact of art on the community.
With ART We Persevere