Miscellaneous
On a warm spring morning, Allison Roberts walked with bare feet to the art box she installed in front of her South Wedge home. It looks like a little library, with glass panels on the door and a handle in the shape of a red bird. "I finally had to put a little note up because people kept putting books it in. No! Only art supplies!” she said with a laugh. Inside are colorful ribbons, paper, and other things people can use to create something. They are some of the tools of Roberts' trade. One of her trades. She doesn't fit neatly into a single job title or career path. Roberts co-owns a theater-based training company called Impact Interactive. She also runs a studio for artists at the Jewish Community Center. She even poses as a patient in a University of Rochester medical school training program. "I've always lived this way,” she said. “I'm also a visual artist and I sell art when I can. I understand too, that people don't have the extra income right now and maybe artwork is not going