Welcome! I'm your host, Pit Petals. We are seriously exploded with excitement for Equestria's

first ever pony podcast! Subscribe now to my little pony, the podcast, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

or wherever you listen.

This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.

Hello and welcome to Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, the interview.

I'm Tadex and I'm talking to Dana King, who told us the story of the incredible early American

sculptor and Monia Lewis. You have to check it out if you haven't already.

Hi Dana, can you tell me a little bit about yourself?

My name is Dana King and I am a sculptor. I create black bodies and bronze.

And I'm also the grandma-jama around the house, like bad grandma-jama, that's me.

So, you're a sculptor now, but you've actually had a couple of careers, right?

I was a journalist for 25 years and I loved it until I didn't love it anymore.

And during the time, the last few years of being a journalist, I went back to school to get my

MFA. And what did sculptures start bringing the thing?

I'll tell you the moment that I knew I was a sculptor. I was working on this piece

and it was of a young woman and it was a torso. And every night I would spray the piece down with

water and I would cover it with a dampened cloth and then I would cover it with plastic and

I did all that and I came in the next day and she had collapsed. I didn't get upset, I didn't cry,

I just rebuilt her. And that's when I knew that this was a gift for me. This was for me to do,

that she in fact turned out even better than she was before she collapsed and I

and I realized that I had the patience to do this, that I had the patience to cut my pieces apart

and start over. That's such an important lesson. That failure isn't really failure.

...