An interview with M:BRACE Series facilitator Ken Skrzesz, Executive Director of the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC). Ken is leading a healing- and wellness-based professional development opportunity called "Pivoting Toward Creativity," a session on emotional reflection and creative visualization that will take place at 1pm-1:45pm on Monday, May 11, 2020. The M:BRACE Podcast is a chance to learn more about the AEMS-MSDE M:BRACE facilitators as humans, as artists, as fellow individuals living in and through the COVID-19 pandemic and to learn how the arts help us all survive.