Q: What are you reading now?

A: I’m reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. Oprah’s book selections are really good.

Q: What do you like about the Indianapolis arts scene?

A: It is becoming more diverse and there is more from which to choose.

Q: What don’t you like?

A: Although there is more from which to choose, I feel that there is not enough community outreach and inclusiveness. I would like to see the major artistic organizations (dance companies, symphonies and vocal choirs, etc.) actually do work in the minority communities.

Q: What inspires you? A: My family, cultural traditions, music, art, history.

Q: Drug of choice?

A: A little glass of wine when I get home to cool me out.

Q: Who’s your favorite politician?

A: My friend, Marta Cruz. She is very involved with the community and can get people mobilized, but no one knows her, yet.

Q: What’s the hardest thing about what you do?

A: The most difficult thing about my job is maintaining an academic and artistic office. I constantly go from right brain to left brain usage.

Q: What’s your favorite TV commercial at the moment?

A: Since they are sometimes more entertaining than the actual shows, I seem to like many of them. I like the cell phone commercial of the heavy bills breaking the table.

Q: Three people (living or dead) you’d invite to dinner?

A: I would like to invite Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Che Guevara and Sylvia Brown (the psychic).

Q: Can love be pornographic?

A: Not if it is in private and between two loving people. It can become pornographic if taken out of a “loving, artistic or beautifully portrayed” context.