The Arts Commission’s Youth Services Director Natalie Gray has spent her life enveloped in the arts. But unlike most who start their involvement with appreciation for the arts, Natalie actively creates ways to provide arts access for the Toledo community, and carries a particular passion for empowering and educating the next generation of young artists through her programs like Young Artists at Work. We talked with Natalie about the importance of arts access and education, her volunteer work with some of Toledo’s creative nonprofits, and how being in the moment can be life-changing.