A Maker’s Life: Sherry Huss | GP Interview #16

This is the sixteenth in a series of written interviews with thinkers, artists, activists and other luminaries around the world, people whose life’s work resonates with our founding principles.

Our new friend Sherry Huss is currently Innovator-in-Residence at the Freeman Company. She is a veteran community builder and was co-founder of Maker Media, an organization that delivered the now world famous Maker Faire. This Bay Area invention has spawned thousands of similar events and permanent spaces throughout the world.

With friends and colleagues, Sherry recently launched Decameron Row, described as follows:

In the Decameron, Boccaccio imagined community in a time of crisis. As a group of friends in 14th-century plague-ridden Florence pass a 10-day quarantine by telling each other stories to pass the time — 10, people, 10 days, 100 tales. Inspired by Boccaccio’s belief that sharing stories is a salve for isolation, we invited 100 artists around the world to contribute one-minute videos to Decameron Row, a collective record of this stormy year. The videos will roll out weekly through the summer of 2020 for you to explore.