Krista Jarvis grew up in communist Czechoslovakia and witnessed the Velvet Revolution. By the time she was a teenager, the country split into two nations: Slovakia and the Czech Republic. She talks with Adam Williams about creativity under communist constraints and the pivotal experience when she became an artist. They also talk about the ways communism affected Krista’s family. Her dad fled to freedom when Krista was very young and her mom was a political activist hiding her religious faith. They talk about how it still affects Krista today and how it influences her parenting of two American boys so far removed from the experiences of her youth. Among other things.