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- [Narrator] Anything that
comes from the soul is art.

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(Soft music)

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- I would like art to
be back in our schools.

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(Soft music)

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(Speaks in foreign language)

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(Soft music)

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- There's only 50,000
people in the entire county.

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(Soft music)

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(Upbeat music)

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I actually didn't decide to take a class.

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My husband left me basically,

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and I was devastated

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and my sister decided
in her infinite wisdom

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that I should take a pottery class.

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And that would make things better.

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- [Martha] The experience of
working with Clay and glaze

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and doing it in a community of women

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helped me in ways that I
never anticipated, never.

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And it exposed to me a
whole different side of myself,

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as well as giving me a sense of belonging.

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(Soft music)

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I think we have a very
elevated view of what

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some things should be.

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And in the artistic realm,

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I think paintings in galleries
and things that are far

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beyond us rather than within us,

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are what we, what we think of.

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And so we don't even aspire to artist.

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It just is like astronaut, you know,

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its way far away and
most of us won't get there

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when in fact it's already inside us.

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And it's a matter of
having it nurtured out of us.

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(Soft music)

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- [Woman] Hello, let me tell you something.

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- What some people don't
understand sometimes

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is a great coping mechanism
to let your feelings out,

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to express more things.

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Because many times we think,

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we have to be rich or very beautiful

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where we see a painting or a scene

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and it has to depict and
show exactly what's there.

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But then when we have
abstract art where we can actually

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put our own colors and feelings into it,

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it expresses more.

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And sometimes we
don't understand that's art.

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(Soft music)

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I was fortunate that my mother allowed us

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when we're cooking to make our designs.

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She showed us how to take the ketchup

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and the mustard and make a design.

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And we would have paints.

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She allowed us to put
our hands in it and touch it

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or go out to the beach
and just draw something

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or build a castle and
decorate it with nature.

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It was around.

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I didn't think it was that important.

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And as I grew up and
saw other people's art,

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I said, "I can do that."

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Maybe what I see in my
mind, doesn't get on the paper,

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but it's what I feel and
sometimes people see it too.

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(Soft music)

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Sometimes our schools are
taking away the art classes.

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We still need this.

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We don't only need math,

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reading science, these
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but science can also be found.

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Math can be found in art, very much.

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(Soft music)

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- [Nora] Glenstone is a postwar
and contemporary art museum

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that really focuses
on an art collection that

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really challenges your
opinion on what art is.

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Sort of setting the boundary of

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sort of surprising you
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and then how you might experience it.

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We're hoping to offer something
different here at glenstone.

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A lot of museums that you go into,

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there are crowds and there are people

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and they have their cell phones out

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and they're taking photos.

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And we wanted to really scale that back

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and create an experience
where when you come here,

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you might feel like you're here alone

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and you can spend as much
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or as little time as you want.

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We are so lucky here
that we get to say to artists,

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"what do you want to do?"

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"Dream big."

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And we're able to give
them the resources, the time

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and in particular the space.

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We have about 300 acres
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Most museums don't have that luxury.

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(Soft music)

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I grew up in this area.

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I grew up in Alexandria,
Virginia, just outside Washington.

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So my folks were the type of parents

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that were always
looking for free stuff to do.

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We didn't have a lot of money.

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So they would dump us at the Smithsonian,

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like at least twice a month.

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So I grew up going to those museums and,

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and really taking advantage
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that they offered.

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And I knew I wanted to work in museums

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at a really young age,
but I didn't know exactly

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what I wanted to do.

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(Banjo music)

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♪ Running from the cold up in new england ♪

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♪ I was born to be a Fiddler
in an old time string band ♪

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- I was a survivor of a cult
called faith assembly with the

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particular minister named Hobart Freeman.

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And during that time
from like age 11 to age 14,

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I suffered medical neglect
and didn't get medical treatment

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for what I was suffering
with, which was asthma.

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And I think I have my, my inhaler here

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so this is proof.

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One of my brothers passed away.

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Our grandmother ended up taking us in.

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And during that period,

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I started finding my voice.

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I started finding how I felt about things,

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how I was experiencing
life and the disappointments

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that I was going through
songwriting gave me a voice.

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And I was able to start telling
my story and experiencing

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or expressing what I
was feeling through music.

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You know, when you
grow up the way I grew up,

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people didn't talk about how we felt.

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We didn't talk about our feelings.

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We didn't talk about our emotions,

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we didn't talk about our disappointments

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or fears or hopes or even our dreams.

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We were really a very quiet family.

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And so there was not a lot of expression

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or a lot of affection

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even though I knew my parents loved me,

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I knew my brothers and sisters loved me.

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We weren't doing so well showing it.

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(Guitar music)

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So part of finding that
voice means, you know,

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I finally started speaking up for myself,

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started standing up for myself.

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(Guitar music)

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I'm really glad that
music gave me that ability

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and helped me find that.

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When I started turning 13, 14, 15,

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the music really gave
me the ability to escape.

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To me the art is just,
it's the individual way

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that they find the way
to express themselves.

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(Guitar music)

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♪ Hit the road fat boy ♪

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♪ hit the road fat boy ♪

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♪ and don't you ever come back ♪

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(Soft music)

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- [Bill] I've always
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probably six years old
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I grew up in a musical household

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and everybody was always playing something.

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And I kinda, I didn't take music lessons.

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So I taught myself not knowing other songs.

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I just made up my own songs.

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So the first songs I played
were like stuff I just made up.

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(Soft music)

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Well a lot of times I like to write

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when I first wake up in the morning

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before you like fully
awake, yeah you just kinda,

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sometimes I wake up
with an idea in my head.

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(Soft music)

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Anything that comes
from the soul is, is art.

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Music and art it's all
comes from your soul.

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It's like any creative
thing that you're creating

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out of nothing is a blank canvas

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or there's no song in the room.

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And all of a sudden,
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in the room or on the canvas.

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It's all the same really.

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You're just creating
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from a place in your heart.

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And that's just the coolest
thing in the world like that.

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But if someone really wants to do it,

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you can't talk them out of it.

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That's the thing it's like,

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and you have to want it that bad.

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If you want to do something in music,

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you have to, can't be talked out of it.

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You know, sometimes I
guess maybe that's foolish.

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You know, there's a lot of people doing it

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that have no business
doing it full time, whatever.

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But then it's very hard even
for pro writers these days to

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get to people to record their songs

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and the music businesses
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But I would just say,

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go follow your heart and do you know,

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you have to, you know,

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you have to want to do
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It's not about making money with it really.

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You got to really want to write songs

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and I would do it whether or not.

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(Guitar music)

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♪ Hoping you can see ♪

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♪ the man I'm tryna be ♪

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♪ someone ♪

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- Most music is made by vibrations.

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So in other words, on a
piano, if you're playing piano

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inside, there's the hammers
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the strings vibrate.

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If you were analyzing a trumpet

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and you started out on a trumpet,

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sound starts out here
with the vibration here.

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Which goes into here.

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Which goes into here,
which makes the sound.

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So you go from here.

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(Trumpet music)

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And what do I do for a living

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is I make my living in the music business,

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which means that I produce festivals

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and work in the studios,

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playing trumpet, which
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and go out on the road
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such as Kenny Chesney or delbert mcclinton,

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or lynyrd skynyrd and go out and play shows

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throughout the country doing that.

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You know what I try to do to do with kids

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when I'm working with
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and turn them onto the arts.

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You know, I try to teach them,

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since I'm teaching them trumpet.

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I try to teach them
about any kind of trumpet

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that they want to know,
whether it be rock and roll,

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whether it be jazz,
whether it be classical.

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You know we get down to
the basics so that they know

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what to do and how to make sound out of it

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and get it down and to
be able to play in their,

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in their school band,

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but also develop an overall love for music.

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Because a lot of these
kids aren't going to be

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professional musicians,
you know, 99 out of a hundred

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aren't going to be professional musicians,

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just like the kid playing
basketball down the street

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is not going to be in the NBA,

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but he's still getting a lot out of it.

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And that's one of the things
we're trying to also teach kids

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is not to just become great
musicians and great artists,

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but to become fans of music.

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(Soft music)

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(Upbeat music)

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♪ I've been painting this pictures ♪

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♪ since I was teething ♪

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♪ I'd be worth a million dollars ♪

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♪ soon as I stop breathing ♪

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♪ know my ♪

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- [ Dr. Mcdonnell] As a
mid sized regional museum.

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We're really eager to
bring the world of art

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and have our community very knowledgeable

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about the world of art in Wichita, Kansas.

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We are a museum devoted to American art.

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We have over 10,000
wonderful works in our collection.

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(Soft music)

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The first artwork that
came into the collection

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of the Wichita art museum
is John steuart curry's,

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Kansas corn field.

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It was purchased in new
York from a gallery there.

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John steuart curry is a Kansas artist.

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This is a iconic Kansas image.

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I grew up in a large family
that traveled all the time.

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I lived in Europe for three times

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before I graduated from high school.

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My father was an English professor

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and all of that had a
profound impact on me.

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So I was having really
mind transforming art

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experiences from early days,

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and it was when I was in
college and living in Vienna

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that I determined that I loved
being in art museum so much,

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I was going to craft a life in art museums.

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(Upbeat music)

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The representative who was helping us

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acquire the collection was in New York.

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And Edward hopper was at
the top of his game at that point.

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We are so very blessed to
have four Edward hopper's

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in our collection.

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(Upbeat music)

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(Soft music)

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- [Alisha] This painting is
my favorite in the whole show,

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because there's a lot of textures

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and movement that's happening.

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There's a lot of colors
that are unexpected.

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I'm an emotional person.

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And so I'm looking for
something that makes me linger

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and look a little bit longer
than I normally would.

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And to me, that makes a successful piece.

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So when I'm going to new
shows at museums or galleries,

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then I'm looking for something
that just makes me go, "oh!"

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And I usually it's some kind of connection.

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There's something personal.

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So with this piece,

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I'm an outdoors type of person.

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I grew up in north central, Kansas,

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and I just love being outside.

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So this gives me that
feeling of being by myself.

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- I think art is such a personal thing

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and that you can find
beauty in so many ways.

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And so I think it's what
makes a community unique,

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what makes it vibrant and
it's plays a huge part in my life.

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So I'm thrilled to be
able to live in Wichita

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where we have an abundance of

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art offerings for everybody.

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Our keeper of the plains,

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which is iconic for Wichita,
it's our own statue of Liberty

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- [trumane] To the Indians, the east

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is where knowledge this day start.

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So the east is very spiritual.

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So everything relative to
the Indian cultures, all of them.

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Teepees, mainly the teepees,

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then they erect teepees always to the east.

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That's where the day starts, the sun rises.

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And so everything starts from the east

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and this one here, we face
him to the west, the day's gone.

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So now his face is the west.

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The days completed started.

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He finished his journey to the west.

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So, anybody who is cognizant of that

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starts the days every day,

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say a prayer to the great creator.

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And that's a gesture that
he's in right there has a prayer,

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prayer gesture prayed to the great creator.

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I'm a three quarter kiowa
and a quarter apache.

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And my whole life has been here in Wichita.

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My parents came here when
I was about three years old,

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never left, been here,
which has been my home.

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Wichita treated the Indians quite well.

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There's 70 different tribes represented by

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70 different flag right here,

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but there's one thing in common,

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they get greater anyway you look at it.

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Anyway you peel that
beliefs down in the middle.

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There's a great creator.

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He's still there, he'll always be there.

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When you bid farewell to somebody,

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in the non-Indian world,
you just tell them goodbye.

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While in the Indian world,

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there's no such thing as a goodbye.

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You say (speaks in foreign language)

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It means I'm going now
and I'll see you again.

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(Upbeat music)

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- [Liz] Most of the people that live here,

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work outside of town.

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A lot of people work in
hutchison, Wichita, mcpherson.

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A lot of them even drive
to mcpherson or salina

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are usually are daytime.

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A lot of the traffic is just local farmers.

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They have to come into town for fuel

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or to eat at the
restaurant or get their mail.

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(Soft music)

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And I try to,

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I try to offer kids classes
that it's inexpensive enough,

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that all I'm doing is I'm
not making anything.

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I'm covering the canvas and the paints

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and they come in and they,

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they do have that opportunity
to create something.

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(Soft music)

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I would like art to be back in our schools.

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And like I said, it's been almost a decade

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since we've had that.

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I know the grade school teachers,

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they try to incorporate
something every month,

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pretty much into their
curriculum, but we don't have arts.

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And I know that it's not in our budget.

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(Soft music)

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(Upbeat music)

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- I teach art at mcpherson middle school

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and I teach sixth, seventh,
and eighth graders.

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When we get them as sixth graders,

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especially at the beginning of the year,

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they're still just kids, you know,

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and about halfway through the year,

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then they turn into middle schoolers.

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Their attitude towards art becomes better

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because they see success

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and they want to keep going with that.

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And they just find a place
where they're comfortable

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and they can make choices of their own.

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I think the most important
thing about learning art is that

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you learn to make decisions,
you learn to be yourself.

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And I think that's a
really important thing to do

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in school aged kids, because all day,

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you're trying to be like your peers.

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You are trying to get
the right answer on tests.

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You are trying to do things right.

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And I think when you come here,

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there's room for exploring
what you want and what's right

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for you instead of what's
right for everyone else.

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I think that success in
art is hard to measure.

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And it's hard to sell that as
success budgets get tight.

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It's just one of those
things that isn't extra.

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(Soft music)

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♪ One two three four ♪

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♪ reverb off drive ♪

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(Guitar music)

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- There weren't very many
opportunities for students

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to take part in music or the arts

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afterschool here in mcpherson.

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And so we felt like that
was the best place for us to

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to use our building, to
use our skills, to use our,

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our interests, to be able to create

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an afterschool program
for students that age.

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But we wanted to create
a space where they can be

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in a safe environment to continue to grow

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in a particular skill that they want to,

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to work is the arts is
you're kind of sharing

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a part of yourself.

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When you put yourself out
there, it's a risk that you're,

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you're kind of exposing yourself.

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I know that for anybody
who does performance art,

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you're kind of putting yourself out there

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in a vulnerable situation.

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(Guitar music)

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- I'm Sean yates, I'm 14.

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I'm a freshman in high school

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and I like music and arts and stuff so...

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I feel like I'm lost in music.

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I love it.

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I mean, it's, it's just great.

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00:28:05,210 --> 00:28:09,078
It's a great escape for me
from just normal life and stuff.

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Staying up so late,
sometimes one in the morning

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doing homework and stuff, I feel like

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I can get overworked and depressed

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and feel like I can't do it,

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but I pick up a guitar
and I immediately forget

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all my worries and stuff.

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(Band playing rock and roll)

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- If they have a passion to pursue that

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anyone can call themselves an artist.

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00:28:36,845 --> 00:28:39,428
(Upbeat music)

437
00:28:42,210 --> 00:28:44,788
- Well, technically I'm a professor,

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but it's a lot more fun than it sounds.

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I teach sheet metal and I teach

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the history of automotive design.

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00:28:51,860 --> 00:28:53,638
Well, they learn all
the different processes

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that a person needs to
restore an antique automobile.

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So that would involve all
the different mechanical

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processes as well as
things like paint and soft trim

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and sheet metal shaping and woodworking.

446
00:29:06,980 --> 00:29:09,593
It's very comprehensive program.

447
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I think of it as a compulsion for us

448
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:16,465
who do this kind of work.

449
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And that could be because you,

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you want to to fix
something or heal something.

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We're looking at these objects

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as these really important artifacts.

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And it's very satisfying to
be able to basically heal this

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object but it there's also
creativity involved if you,

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if you're the one sowing
the seat or shaping the metal,

456
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it's definitely like
traditional art in that sense

457
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where there's a lot of
craftsmanship involved.

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(Guitar music)

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The art comes from the drive
of the people doing the work.

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It's like a tribute to the craftsmanship

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of the people who made it the first time

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with the cars that were handmade cars.

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You're basically
walking in their footsteps,

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recreating like with the roles,

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the exact same processes,
using the same tools

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that they did to make this thing beautiful.

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(Soft music)

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- This room houses the
school district art collection.

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It's was at one time, the
second largest art collection

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for school district in the United States.

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It started in 1911 and it
was collected by students.

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They would save their
pennies and nickels and dimes

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and would buy art for
the, for the school district.

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And there was a gentleman here in town,

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name of Carl smalley who actually worked

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for his father's seed company.

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And even though he was
supposed to be working,

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selling seeds for his father,

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he really was a patron of the arts.

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00:31:02,210 --> 00:31:04,518
And so he talked his
father into letting him

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have a small corner of
the seed of the seed store.

482
00:31:08,220 --> 00:31:11,728
And Carl put some prints
and some books and some

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00:31:11,770 --> 00:31:14,078
little pieces of pottery and so forth

484
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,770
and started selling art
from his father's seed store.

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00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,068
Eventually this grew into his own store.

486
00:31:23,110 --> 00:31:27,008
And at one time it was said that mcpherson

487
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had more art per capita
than New York or Los Angeles.

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- [Betty] Yesterday, I noticed that

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when we were out on the prairie,

490
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it had rained and you can smell the grasses

491
00:31:42,767 --> 00:31:45,184
(soft music)

492
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:47,810
Maxwell wildlife refuge is a home for

493
00:31:47,852 --> 00:31:52,398
a very large bison herd.

494
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:57,440
And those two are our
main attraction of the refuge.

495
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Sits on 2,800 acres of native prairie.

496
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,168
There's art in just about everything.

497
00:32:05,210 --> 00:32:08,648
Seed pots on, on our plants out here,

498
00:32:08,690 --> 00:32:12,288
the closeups, you
can't maybe tell that it's

499
00:32:12,330 --> 00:32:15,858
a seed pot off of a piece of grass.

500
00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:20,900
But it's beautiful when there's
a lot of dew and moisture.

501
00:32:21,530 --> 00:32:24,608
I have seen webs that have been made

502
00:32:24,650 --> 00:32:27,818
in the grass that is so artistic.

503
00:32:27,860 --> 00:32:30,928
Yeah, I mean, really it is a big painting.

504
00:32:30,970 --> 00:32:33,387
(Soft music)

505
00:32:37,553 --> 00:32:40,136
(Upbeat music)

506
00:33:37,073 --> 00:33:38,683
- Welcome to tick tock pueblo.

507
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,928
What we do at tick tock
is we are an anticafe,

508
00:33:41,970 --> 00:33:44,578
which is a pay per minute social space.

509
00:33:44,620 --> 00:33:46,138
And what we do is we check people in.

510
00:33:46,180 --> 00:33:49,698
And from that point they pay
8 cents per person per minute,

511
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and everything else is free.

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00:33:51,450 --> 00:33:53,943
So the coffee is really incidental.

513
00:33:53,985 --> 00:33:56,478
We say, you'll pay for a minute coffee shop

514
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,618
because anticafe is not a word.

515
00:33:59,660 --> 00:34:01,298
We have art in here because this is

516
00:34:01,340 --> 00:34:02,890
intrinsically a creative space.

517
00:34:03,890 --> 00:34:07,578
Whether that creativity
is writing, whether it's,

518
00:34:07,620 --> 00:34:09,228
you know, building your own business,

519
00:34:09,270 --> 00:34:12,518
whether it's actually doing physical art

520
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,072
we're a creative space.

521
00:34:14,114 --> 00:34:16,697
(Upbeat music)

522
00:34:18,170 --> 00:34:21,278
I think that fear is a really big kind of,

523
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,308
de-motivator both in terms of making art,

524
00:34:25,350 --> 00:34:27,078
like it was talking about with myself

525
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,938
and that fear of I'm not
going to be any good at this,

526
00:34:29,980 --> 00:34:33,548
but also fear of kind of
looking at your own motivations,

527
00:34:33,590 --> 00:34:37,288
looking internally because
art makes us look internally

528
00:34:37,330 --> 00:34:42,143
and not wanting to confront
anything about yourself.

529
00:34:43,470 --> 00:34:46,518
In any sort of world that
wants you to conform.

530
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,058
That wants you to be the same
as every single other person

531
00:34:49,100 --> 00:34:50,558
do the same as every single other person,

532
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,353
anything artistic at all
is an act of rebellion.

533
00:34:58,600 --> 00:34:59,726
- I love this piece.

534
00:34:59,768 --> 00:35:01,828
(Laughs)

535
00:35:01,870 --> 00:35:04,568
It says, I am a follower of rude people.

536
00:35:04,610 --> 00:35:08,283
Many people have no
clue what outsider art is.

537
00:35:09,657 --> 00:35:11,883
They've never been exposed to it before.

538
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,428
Many people, when they
consider art, they consider,

539
00:35:17,470 --> 00:35:20,628
as I said, our beautiful
western collection,

540
00:35:20,670 --> 00:35:25,670
western landscapes, you
know, much more mainstream art.

541
00:35:28,310 --> 00:35:31,978
This is a completely new
experience for many people.

542
00:35:32,020 --> 00:35:33,205
People can walk in here and say,

543
00:35:33,247 --> 00:35:36,268
"oh, you know, my four
year old could do this."

544
00:35:36,310 --> 00:35:37,258
But that's not the point.

545
00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:38,648
Yes your four year old can do this.

546
00:35:38,690 --> 00:35:39,788
Everybody can do this.

547
00:35:39,830 --> 00:35:43,708
It's everybody can
explore their creative side,

548
00:35:43,750 --> 00:35:46,308
create something that, yeah, it is.

549
00:35:46,350 --> 00:35:47,738
It's not for anyone else.

550
00:35:47,780 --> 00:35:50,014
It's just for the artist creating it.

551
00:35:50,056 --> 00:35:52,473
(Soft music)

552
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,928
An outsider artist is someone who is not

553
00:35:56,970 --> 00:35:58,793
formally educated in art.

554
00:36:01,150 --> 00:36:04,278
And it's more of a passionate
something they need to do.

555
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,298
It's something that they,
they are compelled to create.

556
00:36:07,340 --> 00:36:09,688
It's something within themselves.

557
00:36:09,730 --> 00:36:12,618
I think all art has its place.

558
00:36:12,660 --> 00:36:17,240
It does I mean, it's all
expression, it's all creating

559
00:36:18,706 --> 00:36:21,123
(soft music)

560
00:36:27,730 --> 00:36:30,908
- Everybody that walks
by anywhere in the world,

561
00:36:30,950 --> 00:36:33,028
everything around you is art, you know,

562
00:36:33,070 --> 00:36:36,118
everything from architecture
to advertisements,

563
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,988
to the design of cars,
to, you know, anything.

564
00:36:40,030 --> 00:36:42,723
Everything in our society
revolves around design.

565
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,433
I am a silkscreen poster artist,

566
00:36:48,285 --> 00:36:50,388
I'm a pretty focal person.

567
00:36:50,430 --> 00:36:52,498
So, you know, for instance, when I was

568
00:36:52,540 --> 00:36:54,528
playing in the band, that was my focus.

569
00:36:54,570 --> 00:36:57,068
I really didn't do anything
else outside of that

570
00:36:57,110 --> 00:36:59,328
until I kinda got into the artwork side.

571
00:36:59,370 --> 00:37:03,038
And nowadays kind of
similarly, I only focus on artwork.

572
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,973
I really don't do anything
else outside of this,

573
00:37:07,830 --> 00:37:10,528
just because I like to put my whole heart

574
00:37:10,570 --> 00:37:11,361
into what I'm doing.

575
00:37:11,403 --> 00:37:15,908
And so anybody who find
something they love to do creatively

576
00:37:15,950 --> 00:37:18,268
and pursues it wholeheartedly, you know,

577
00:37:18,310 --> 00:37:21,008
and it could be anything,
whatever you choose,

578
00:37:21,050 --> 00:37:24,113
as long as you do it
with everything you have.

579
00:37:27,470 --> 00:37:29,288
I think there's a lot of
people who have the ability

580
00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:31,488
to create wonderful things,

581
00:37:31,530 --> 00:37:35,368
but they're not willing to take the chance

582
00:37:35,410 --> 00:37:37,828
to pursue that to the end you know.

583
00:37:37,870 --> 00:37:42,388
I think a lot of the...

584
00:37:42,430 --> 00:37:43,898
I think a lot of society is gonna try

585
00:37:43,940 --> 00:37:45,918
and keep you from doing that.

586
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,008
You know, again, back
with financial reasons

587
00:37:49,050 --> 00:37:52,378
and family reasons
and lots of different stuff.

588
00:37:52,420 --> 00:37:57,188
So yeah, I think it's
very against creatives,

589
00:37:57,230 --> 00:38:02,230
but at the same time I think
it's important for creatives to

590
00:38:03,370 --> 00:38:06,098
dig their own hole and make their own place

591
00:38:06,140 --> 00:38:10,723
and not to be deterred by
any exterior circumstance.

592
00:38:11,740 --> 00:38:16,740
I think art is the most
integral part of life.

593
00:38:22,820 --> 00:38:25,058
- [Radeaux] This is my gallery,
the John deaux art gallery.

594
00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:27,971
I represent about 25 local artists.

595
00:38:28,013 --> 00:38:30,430
(Soft music)

596
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:34,663
I try to tell artists,

597
00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:37,768
it's not so much talent that's important

598
00:38:37,810 --> 00:38:41,128
but perseverance, you know.

599
00:38:41,170 --> 00:38:42,488
The more stubborn you are about it,

600
00:38:42,530 --> 00:38:44,088
the more successful you may be.

601
00:38:44,130 --> 00:38:46,818
You know, sometimes it's
a struggle too for all artists,

602
00:38:46,860 --> 00:38:49,743
but, but it's quite rewarding too.

603
00:38:51,015 --> 00:38:54,298
You know, I can't imagine
not having art on my walls

604
00:38:54,340 --> 00:38:55,598
or in my life, you know.

605
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:56,918
I think people that don't have it

606
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,338
are really missing out on something,

607
00:38:58,380 --> 00:38:59,670
but they don't know they're missing out.

608
00:38:59,712 --> 00:39:02,129
(Soft music)

609
00:39:07,420 --> 00:39:12,420
- [Man] From 1980 till
really about five years ago.

610
00:39:12,530 --> 00:39:16,118
So several decades,
this quarter of a million

611
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,838
square feet meat packing
plant was abandoned.

612
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,898
Art has been used prolifically throughout

613
00:39:23,940 --> 00:39:25,698
generations here in pueblo,

614
00:39:25,740 --> 00:39:29,958
especially when you look at
tagging graffiti art, mural art,

615
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,158
you look at large self-expression works.

616
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,288
The pueblo levee is in the
guinness world record book

617
00:39:36,330 --> 00:39:39,418
as the longest continuous
mural in the world.

618
00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:43,308
So we have this
tradition of self expression

619
00:39:43,350 --> 00:39:45,258
in a lot of different formats.

620
00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:49,138
So watertower place is
iconic in a lot of different ways.

621
00:39:49,180 --> 00:39:54,068
One, it's imposing because
it is 250,000 square feet

622
00:39:54,110 --> 00:39:59,110
adjacent to 25 to the interstate
here with 2 million bricks

623
00:39:59,660 --> 00:40:04,208
in a very gorgeous kind of
mid century modern design.

624
00:40:04,250 --> 00:40:07,758
And the water towers are
iconic because you can see them

625
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,418
from the north, from the south,

626
00:40:09,460 --> 00:40:11,808
from the east and from the west.

627
00:40:11,850 --> 00:40:15,218
But it's iconic in the
sense that we have this

628
00:40:15,260 --> 00:40:19,018
actual physical, you
know meat packing plant

629
00:40:19,060 --> 00:40:22,178
that represents one of the
great industries that brought,

630
00:40:22,220 --> 00:40:24,318
you know, fortune to this community.

631
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,748
But now because of its design,

632
00:40:26,790 --> 00:40:29,548
it's iconic in the sense
that it allows us to be really

633
00:40:29,590 --> 00:40:34,590
thoughtful in the way that we
create very meaningful spaces

634
00:40:34,650 --> 00:40:36,898
for artists, for creatives, for makers

635
00:40:36,940 --> 00:40:39,900
to actually do what
it is that they do best.

636
00:40:45,861 --> 00:40:48,278
(Soft music)

637
00:41:14,410 --> 00:41:16,993
(Upbeat music)

638
00:41:41,811 --> 00:41:43,626
- I passed on when you came

639
00:41:43,668 --> 00:41:46,878
and took pure things around this town here.

640
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,818
So it must have been
real exciting for you though.

641
00:41:49,860 --> 00:41:51,718
- Oh my goodness it was.

642
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,988
Again, if my mother ever knew

643
00:41:54,030 --> 00:41:55,708
some of the things I got into.

644
00:41:55,750 --> 00:41:58,348
I am Mrs. Eleanor mallaby.

645
00:41:58,390 --> 00:42:02,298
I came to Glenwood Springs in may of 1885,

646
00:42:02,340 --> 00:42:04,787
a new bride from Columbus, Ohio.

647
00:42:04,829 --> 00:42:07,228
(Upbeat music)

648
00:42:07,270 --> 00:42:08,368
- I'm Jasper ward.

649
00:42:08,410 --> 00:42:12,193
I was born in 1850 in
Franklin county in the north.

650
00:42:13,580 --> 00:42:17,398
My brothers and I, my mother
and my sisters came west

651
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:21,213
after civil war when our forum was burned.

652
00:42:23,700 --> 00:42:26,158
- This specific character,

653
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,168
Mrs. Eleanor mallaby is fourth generation.

654
00:42:29,210 --> 00:42:31,778
Her great friend daughter happened to have

655
00:42:31,820 --> 00:42:35,788
her handwritten, Eleanor
his hand written memories.

656
00:42:35,830 --> 00:42:38,218
Got to meet her great granddaughter

657
00:42:38,260 --> 00:42:41,008
and she could hand me down the oral history

658
00:42:41,050 --> 00:42:44,368
of her family to know who this woman was.

659
00:42:44,410 --> 00:42:47,283
People don't have the whole story.

660
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,390
We are trying to give the background

661
00:42:51,250 --> 00:42:55,328
every day feelings that these people had.

662
00:42:55,370 --> 00:42:56,278
We have today.

663
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,478
We shared the mistakes that were made.

664
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:03,718
Perhaps we can help make it
better for the next generation.

665
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,478
- Jasper represents that part of the west,

666
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:09,630
that the story is really
not been fully told yet.

667
00:43:09,672 --> 00:43:12,348
(Upbeat music)

668
00:43:12,390 --> 00:43:14,378
My job is to keep history alive.

669
00:43:14,420 --> 00:43:17,148
And Glenwood Springs
has a very rich history.

670
00:43:17,190 --> 00:43:19,408
So it's not a difficult job at all.

671
00:43:19,450 --> 00:43:22,558
And part of that is
portraying as a portrayalist,

672
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,258
a character that I could identify with

673
00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:27,099
that's part of the history of this area.

674
00:43:27,141 --> 00:43:28,838
(Upbeat music)

675
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:30,208
We're right at the verge here in

676
00:43:30,250 --> 00:43:32,848
Glenwood Springs of losing our soul.

677
00:43:32,890 --> 00:43:34,838
What made this a community is the history

678
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:36,109
that tied it together.

679
00:43:36,151 --> 00:43:39,578
When you're tied to an electronic device

680
00:43:39,620 --> 00:43:42,338
that you become not
depicted may not be the word,

681
00:43:42,380 --> 00:43:44,308
but if you become dependent upon.

682
00:43:44,350 --> 00:43:48,378
If she can get them away
from that back to just free time

683
00:43:48,420 --> 00:43:50,768
for the imagination to run wild,

684
00:43:50,810 --> 00:43:53,183
the arts then bring that a lot.

685
00:43:54,990 --> 00:43:58,188
And we lose that, you
lose the soul of who you are

686
00:43:58,230 --> 00:44:01,456
as a culture, as a town, as a country.

687
00:44:01,498 --> 00:44:04,081
(Upbeat music)

688
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,023
- [Joyce] Some people
will say like with fine art,

689
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,178
what do I do with this?

690
00:44:11,220 --> 00:44:14,708
Or, you know, it doesn't have a purpose.

691
00:44:14,750 --> 00:44:15,578
And I always say,

692
00:44:15,620 --> 00:44:20,318
I really don't need
my art to be functional,

693
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,388
but I love my functional items to be art.

694
00:44:23,430 --> 00:44:24,988
So I like everything.

695
00:44:25,030 --> 00:44:26,563
And I feel like everything is,

696
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:28,828
oh, you're just blessed.

697
00:44:28,870 --> 00:44:32,668
If you're an artist, you know,
in every and everything is,

698
00:44:32,710 --> 00:44:35,898
everything comes from
creativity, problem solving,

699
00:44:35,940 --> 00:44:38,988
enrichment enjoyment, you know.

700
00:44:39,030 --> 00:44:41,388
I think everybody is an artist.

701
00:44:41,430 --> 00:44:44,298
I really do think you are, you know, yes.

702
00:44:44,340 --> 00:44:46,708
I don't think it has to be one thing.

703
00:44:46,750 --> 00:44:51,628
And sometimes I'll meet
artists who are really talented,

704
00:44:51,670 --> 00:44:53,978
but they don't have like
the business aspect of it.

705
00:44:54,020 --> 00:44:59,020
And I try to explain if you're
not just really passionate

706
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,468
about it and it's everything
and you have to do it,

707
00:45:02,510 --> 00:45:05,164
don't do it as a
business, just do it for joy.

708
00:45:05,206 --> 00:45:07,623
(Soft music)

709
00:45:11,770 --> 00:45:13,348
- [Troy] We specialize in making these

710
00:45:13,390 --> 00:45:15,298
barrel aged sour beers.

711
00:45:15,340 --> 00:45:18,417
And so that is really my favorite.

712
00:45:18,459 --> 00:45:20,548
One of the only forms of art expression

713
00:45:20,590 --> 00:45:22,598
that I do is the blending aspect.

714
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,138
So the best part of my job is when

715
00:45:24,180 --> 00:45:25,898
we're able to start tasting barrels

716
00:45:25,940 --> 00:45:27,488
and seeing what flavors we get

717
00:45:27,530 --> 00:45:29,318
and what happens when you add those two

718
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,148
three or four barrels together.

719
00:45:31,190 --> 00:45:33,028
So that the idea of the blending process

720
00:45:33,070 --> 00:45:35,138
is that one plus one equals three.

721
00:45:35,180 --> 00:45:37,038
We're trying to create
a blend that's greater

722
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:38,241
than the sum of its parts.

723
00:45:38,283 --> 00:45:40,700
(Soft music)

724
00:45:42,210 --> 00:45:44,794
And you could compare the blending process,

725
00:45:44,836 --> 00:45:48,638
of what we do to make
these beers with painting.

726
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:52,818
So we try to create as many
different flavors as we can

727
00:45:52,860 --> 00:45:55,278
kind of the same way that a painter

728
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,028
might want to have a lot
of different colors to use

729
00:45:57,070 --> 00:45:58,278
with what they're trying to do.

730
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,718
So that's kind of how we
describe it is we want to have

731
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:02,408
tons of different flavors and the barrels

732
00:46:02,450 --> 00:46:04,768
so that we're not limited
by what we can achieve

733
00:46:04,810 --> 00:46:05,908
with that blending process.

734
00:46:05,950 --> 00:46:08,168
Similar to, I would assume how a painter

735
00:46:08,210 --> 00:46:10,077
wants to have as many
different colors as they can get,

736
00:46:10,119 --> 00:46:12,438
to make what they're trying to do.

737
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:13,368
What is an artist for me?

738
00:46:13,410 --> 00:46:15,558
Somebody that works with their hands.

739
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,058
Somebody that creates
something that the average

740
00:46:18,100 --> 00:46:20,067
from ingredients that the average person

741
00:46:20,109 --> 00:46:24,373
wouldn't be able to make
something to that level of skill.

742
00:46:25,610 --> 00:46:27,805
It's easy to not, if you
don't understand something

743
00:46:27,847 --> 00:46:29,188
you have a negative view of it,

744
00:46:29,230 --> 00:46:32,378
but the more you begin to
understand a product or process,

745
00:46:32,420 --> 00:46:34,968
the more you'll be
able to see that there is

746
00:46:35,010 --> 00:46:37,163
definitely a lot of art that
goes into what we do here.

747
00:46:37,205 --> 00:46:39,622
(Soft music)

748
00:47:14,052 --> 00:47:16,635
(Upbeat music)

749
00:47:31,986 --> 00:47:34,403
(Soft music)

750
00:47:40,810 --> 00:47:43,323
- In northeastern Nevada where we live,

751
00:47:44,500 --> 00:47:47,433
there's only 50,000
people in the entire county.

752
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,323
The towns serve far spread apart,

753
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:56,818
many people think 50 miles
outside of the great basin

754
00:47:56,860 --> 00:47:58,610
is an overnight trip.

755
00:48:03,570 --> 00:48:06,598
What you do with a six
year old kindergartner

756
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:08,238
to go one way into school bus to

757
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,368
go to school five days a week.

758
00:48:10,410 --> 00:48:12,163
And we, we think nothing up.

759
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,388
It's just the way we live.

760
00:48:15,430 --> 00:48:19,338
And we don't regard this as unusual

761
00:48:19,380 --> 00:48:22,768
because you're never a good
tourist in your own backyard.

762
00:48:22,810 --> 00:48:26,163
And you don't realize that this is unique.

763
00:48:27,460 --> 00:48:29,768
It's just the way we
are in the way we live.

764
00:48:29,810 --> 00:48:31,403
And we're fine with it.

765
00:48:33,890 --> 00:48:38,818
The heritage of cowboy culture is one that

766
00:48:38,860 --> 00:48:42,648
embraces the old traditional ways.

767
00:48:42,690 --> 00:48:47,003
Our cowboys still go out
on the range on horseback

768
00:48:47,860 --> 00:48:50,798
and they camp out in cowboy teepee tents,

769
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:55,840
just like their predecessors
did 100 170 years ago.

770
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:02,000
It really hasn't changed, but
yet the ranchers nowadays

771
00:49:02,470 --> 00:49:07,108
have different ways of
tracking their livestock.

772
00:49:07,150 --> 00:49:11,468
They keep computer
records, they have cell phones,

773
00:49:11,510 --> 00:49:13,848
although cell services, a little sketchy

774
00:49:13,890 --> 00:49:16,168
in places around here.

775
00:49:16,210 --> 00:49:20,188
But cowboys love to embrace those,

776
00:49:20,230 --> 00:49:24,823
those traditions that have
gone on for 150 years.

777
00:49:24,865 --> 00:49:27,282
(Soft music)

778
00:51:31,471 --> 00:51:34,228
(Soft music)

779
00:51:34,270 --> 00:51:37,818
- I am a first generation basque American.

780
00:51:37,860 --> 00:51:41,278
So the basque people in the time of the war

781
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:45,188
back in Spain and France
actually were very repressed.

782
00:51:45,230 --> 00:51:48,568
And that repression led
to a lot of families having to

783
00:51:48,610 --> 00:51:52,038
immigrate to other
countries for survival really?

784
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:55,798
And so Nevada became a
hub of many of the Basques

785
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:57,678
because they came here as sheep herders.

786
00:51:57,720 --> 00:52:00,598
And so that immigration
started in the thirties

787
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,788
and really became even more prominent

788
00:52:03,830 --> 00:52:05,928
in the sixties, the early sixties.

789
00:52:05,970 --> 00:52:06,998
The things that we are trying to

790
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:11,898
preserve most are dance, the tree carvings.

791
00:52:11,940 --> 00:52:15,588
So if you go to any of the mountain areas

792
00:52:15,630 --> 00:52:18,275
in northeastern Nevada,
you'll see these tree carvings

793
00:52:18,317 --> 00:52:20,608
and a tree carvings can be anything from

794
00:52:20,650 --> 00:52:22,898
how they felt about politics at the time,

795
00:52:22,940 --> 00:52:25,048
to like their love for their homeland.

796
00:52:25,090 --> 00:52:28,138
And they're missing their
families back home that they left

797
00:52:28,180 --> 00:52:31,085
to what life was like out, out in the open.

798
00:52:31,127 --> 00:52:33,438
(Soft music)

799
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:35,528
My mom didn't know English
when she went to school,

800
00:52:35,570 --> 00:52:38,278
my dad never went to school in america,

801
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,448
but their goal was that we knew English.

802
00:52:40,490 --> 00:52:43,318
And so it's very typical, you know,

803
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:44,788
the basque language was almost lost

804
00:52:44,830 --> 00:52:46,898
because of this story right here is

805
00:52:46,940 --> 00:52:48,588
they so wanted their children to be able to

806
00:52:48,630 --> 00:52:50,478
integrate into American culture.

807
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:52,582
So happy to have the opportunity here

808
00:52:52,624 --> 00:52:56,333
that that basque language
was almost lost here.

809
00:52:58,777 --> 00:53:01,928
(Upbeat music)

810
00:53:01,970 --> 00:53:03,658
- I like mechanisms.

811
00:53:03,700 --> 00:53:07,388
I like to see the way things
move and the way they work.

812
00:53:07,430 --> 00:53:08,913
And I always have.

813
00:53:10,050 --> 00:53:12,548
Since I was a little kid I
wanted to be an inventor.

814
00:53:12,590 --> 00:53:15,318
And I've kind of
incorporated that into my art,

815
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:17,728
with the kinetic art aspect of it,

816
00:53:17,770 --> 00:53:20,360
where my sculptures
actually do move and do things.

817
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:29,128
I'm inspired lot by the
mechanics of machinery

818
00:53:29,170 --> 00:53:30,888
and the mechanics of nature

819
00:53:30,930 --> 00:53:32,800
and how we can put those together

820
00:53:34,450 --> 00:53:38,503
to make weird mechanical
robot animals and whatnot.

821
00:53:40,950 --> 00:53:44,807
Everyone has their own
opinion on what is and is not art.

822
00:53:48,796 --> 00:53:51,213
(Soft music)

823
00:54:17,605 --> 00:54:20,188
(Upbeat music)

824
00:54:50,393 --> 00:54:53,193
- When I first started
working at the foundry, I didn't,

825
00:54:55,860 --> 00:54:58,098
I didn't know much about art.

826
00:54:58,140 --> 00:54:59,201
I mean, I just needed the job, right?

827
00:54:59,243 --> 00:55:02,018
I mean, at 19 years old, I needed the job.

828
00:55:02,060 --> 00:55:03,335
I ended up being good at it.

829
00:55:03,377 --> 00:55:05,028
And the longer I worked at a foundry,

830
00:55:05,070 --> 00:55:07,598
then I got exposed to
different types are, you know,

831
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:12,640
anything from, you know,
regular wildlife type art,

832
00:55:13,150 --> 00:55:15,003
you know, realistic figures.

833
00:55:16,690 --> 00:55:19,788
The second foundry I worked
at did more contemporary work.

834
00:55:19,830 --> 00:55:24,478
And that was my first exposure
to contemporary artwork,

835
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:29,438
which is quite different.

836
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:34,308
And it took me a little
while to understand it,

837
00:55:34,350 --> 00:55:37,363
more talk with artists, ask them questions.

838
00:55:38,810 --> 00:55:42,103
And it was a real learning experience.

839
00:55:47,310 --> 00:55:50,010
When the cup's full he'll
just move on to the next one

840
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:54,798
no excitement guys.

841
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:56,428
Our work can be a lot of different things.

842
00:55:56,470 --> 00:55:59,678
I mean, it might be somebody
painting a mural on a wall.

843
00:55:59,720 --> 00:56:02,768
It might be, you know, like,
like some of the old buildings,

844
00:56:02,810 --> 00:56:04,478
they have an old billboard on there.

845
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:08,478
And we, you know, in
baker that it's important.

846
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:10,718
We keep that stuff, you know, I mean, it's,

847
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:12,648
it's for people to see.

848
00:56:12,690 --> 00:56:15,558
You know, I know that
it comes at an expense

849
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:17,498
and so you have to weigh,

850
00:56:17,540 --> 00:56:21,838
you know, is the expense
of the art worth the return.

851
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:23,688
And so what's the return?

852
00:56:23,730 --> 00:56:26,018
Is the return people spending money here?

853
00:56:26,060 --> 00:56:29,528
I don't know, I mean,
the return might just be

854
00:56:29,570 --> 00:56:34,288
the fact that people are
pleased and they like to see it,

855
00:56:34,330 --> 00:56:37,228
you know, so, and maybe
they come back again

856
00:56:37,270 --> 00:56:39,414
because they enjoyed the experience.

857
00:56:39,456 --> 00:56:42,039
(Upbeat music)

858
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:57,458
- Hello, welcome to Churchill school.

859
00:56:57,500 --> 00:56:59,183
- Yeah, come on in.

860
00:57:00,970 --> 00:57:05,970
- We saw a big sort of
shift in the community

861
00:57:08,090 --> 00:57:13,090
into believing that arts had
a place in a rural economy.

862
00:57:13,700 --> 00:57:16,858
We had seen certain
artist that was in the catskills

863
00:57:16,900 --> 00:57:19,890
that had an old elementary
school as his home in his studio.

864
00:57:19,932 --> 00:57:23,838
And we thought that
would be a really cool thing

865
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:25,863
for a place like baker.

866
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:30,771
- So, I mean, we're really not

867
00:57:30,813 --> 00:57:35,128
motivated by making a lot of money,

868
00:57:35,170 --> 00:57:39,698
but we're motivated to make
sure that we pay our bills here.

869
00:57:39,740 --> 00:57:42,318
So we're trying to make sure
that, you know, that happens,

870
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:46,198
but we are always super excited to have

871
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:48,689
artists producing artwork here.

872
00:57:48,731 --> 00:57:51,148
(Soft music)

873
00:57:52,950 --> 00:57:56,438
My background is in the fashion industry.

874
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,463
So I did hair and makeup.

875
00:58:00,550 --> 00:58:03,008
Well, first started out as
owning a couple of salons

876
00:58:03,050 --> 00:58:05,818
in Chicago and then moved to New York.

877
00:58:05,860 --> 00:58:09,928
And I did hair and makeup
for pretty much every magazine.

878
00:58:09,970 --> 00:58:12,434
- So when living in Chicago,

879
00:58:12,476 --> 00:58:15,987
I used to produce and
direct a live music show

880
00:58:16,029 --> 00:58:18,800
that was part of cable access.

881
00:58:18,842 --> 00:58:21,948
(Upbeat music)

882
00:58:21,990 --> 00:58:25,438
We have artists in virtually every space

883
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:29,240
when you're able to do
something, that's a creative outlet.

884
00:58:29,282 --> 00:58:32,588
It helps you deal with whatever issues

885
00:58:32,630 --> 00:58:34,778
you might be having internally.

886
00:58:34,820 --> 00:58:37,268
The arts sometimes give you the opportunity

887
00:58:37,310 --> 00:58:39,548
when you're not feeling
good to express yourself

888
00:58:39,590 --> 00:58:42,338
in a way that's constructive
versus destructive

889
00:58:42,380 --> 00:58:46,290
and able to provide spaces
and be in a place where

890
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:51,818
creativity is sort of
championed and celebrated

891
00:58:51,860 --> 00:58:53,423
like that's an important thing.

892
00:58:54,660 --> 00:58:57,243
(Upbeat music)

893
00:58:59,270 --> 00:59:01,428
- I'd give a hundred
dollars, give him 100 on it.

894
00:59:01,470 --> 00:59:02,303
Now 145.

895
01:00:12,247 --> 01:00:14,958
(Guitar music)

896
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:18,518
- Contemporary art, it does test the limits

897
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:20,678
for some people's tolerances.

898
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:23,058
I mean, as whit was saying, the,

899
01:00:23,100 --> 01:00:25,278
the two pieces of metal, you know,

900
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:27,258
kind of a minimalist piece that, you know,

901
01:00:27,300 --> 01:00:32,238
people wonder why, why
that would be considered art.

902
01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:33,694
And I think that,

903
01:00:33,736 --> 01:00:35,688
I think that there are
kind of two different levels.

904
01:00:35,730 --> 01:00:37,988
I think that there's a
kind of an intellectual level

905
01:00:38,030 --> 01:00:40,092
and there's almost a
body response to forms.

906
01:00:40,134 --> 01:00:44,238
It's like a body response
to a beautiful sunset.

907
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:45,818
You don't have to be, you know,

908
01:00:45,860 --> 01:00:48,398
you don't have to know about
great painters doing sunsets

909
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:49,598
or any of that other stuff you,

910
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:50,878
all you have to do is be in front of it

911
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:52,248
and feel a certain way.

912
01:00:52,290 --> 01:00:53,863
And that, that is art.

913
01:00:54,967 --> 01:00:55,985
It's not the intellectual art.

914
01:00:56,027 --> 01:00:59,288
It's not the historians art, it's not that.

915
01:00:59,330 --> 01:01:01,698
And those, and then we have
stacks and stacks of books

916
01:01:01,740 --> 01:01:04,568
about those things that give reasons why

917
01:01:04,610 --> 01:01:07,400
those two sheets of metal are so profound

918
01:01:10,890 --> 01:01:15,890
in baker city, actually
here has turned the corner

919
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:21,400
into a very artistic town, very art center.

920
01:01:22,340 --> 01:01:26,028
It's, it's amazing to me how much energy

921
01:01:26,070 --> 01:01:30,478
is in town for, for the arts now.

922
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:35,008
And when I was kid and lived
here and went to school here.

923
01:01:35,050 --> 01:01:37,163
It wasn't so, you know,
there was a certain style.

924
01:01:37,205 --> 01:01:39,668
You did the mountain
to look like the mountain

925
01:01:39,710 --> 01:01:41,228
and you didn't mess with it and if you did,

926
01:01:41,270 --> 01:01:42,703
you'd be doing something wrong.

927
01:01:45,179 --> 01:01:47,596
(Soft music)

928
01:01:51,580 --> 01:01:55,588
- What I love about Clay is
it is a very tactile medium.

929
01:01:55,630 --> 01:01:57,248
It's also very forgiving.

930
01:01:57,290 --> 01:01:59,555
It's been a frustrating
journey because I've had a lot.

931
01:01:59,597 --> 01:02:01,140
You...

932
01:02:02,330 --> 01:02:04,248
Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't,

933
01:02:04,290 --> 01:02:06,988
but that also has been very good for me

934
01:02:07,030 --> 01:02:10,098
because it's nice not to learn to live

935
01:02:10,140 --> 01:02:11,786
with not always being in control.

936
01:02:11,828 --> 01:02:15,000
So that's probably what I like most about

937
01:02:18,580 --> 01:02:21,843
about art is just the process of creating.

938
01:02:23,770 --> 01:02:27,282
Once I have it conceived
in my mind, then it's a,

939
01:02:27,324 --> 01:02:31,770
then it's just a matter of
executing it and dealing with

940
01:02:31,812 --> 01:02:35,018
the material and how the
material is going to react

941
01:02:35,060 --> 01:02:37,108
to what I wanted to do.

942
01:02:37,150 --> 01:02:38,258
Art is so many things.

943
01:02:38,300 --> 01:02:41,478
It's so many things to
so many different people,

944
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:45,023
but for me as an educator,

945
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:47,550
I think it's all about

946
01:02:50,220 --> 01:02:53,491
being able to communicate
and express yourself

947
01:02:53,533 --> 01:02:55,970
in a unique and individual way

948
01:02:58,140 --> 01:03:00,108
with no right or wrong answers.

949
01:03:00,150 --> 01:03:05,150
You get to art, art majors.

950
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:07,178
What I think it majors our culture.

951
01:03:07,220 --> 01:03:10,468
It determines it communicates
to those around us.

952
01:03:10,510 --> 01:03:13,918
And it does so, and in lots of times,

953
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:15,528
there are things that we know

954
01:03:15,570 --> 01:03:17,018
that we can communicate with art,

955
01:03:17,060 --> 01:03:19,078
but we can't express it verbally,

956
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:20,708
but we can express it in music.

957
01:03:20,750 --> 01:03:22,728
We can express it in theater.

958
01:03:22,770 --> 01:03:25,558
We can express it visually.

959
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:28,978
And that's what art is.

960
01:03:29,020 --> 01:03:32,458
I don't think art will ever go away.

961
01:03:32,500 --> 01:03:34,208
I think we need it as a culture.

962
01:03:34,250 --> 01:03:36,463
I think we need it as individual people.

963
01:03:37,495 --> 01:03:39,912
(Soft music)

964
01:03:42,380 --> 01:03:45,608
So many of those things in
school today say there's a right.

965
01:03:45,650 --> 01:03:47,958
There's a right answer and a wrong answer.

966
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,113
And I think we need to,

967
01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:55,558
we need to, particularly
we're all communities,

968
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:57,508
your education is the key.

969
01:03:57,550 --> 01:03:59,228
And we have to have in our public,

970
01:03:59,270 --> 01:04:01,398
we have to have it in our public schools

971
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:03,630
to help children learn to think that way

972
01:04:04,500 --> 01:04:06,728
and to not learn, to think that way,

973
01:04:06,770 --> 01:04:10,121
but be allowed to be creative.

974
01:04:10,163 --> 01:04:13,295
♪ I've been looking ♪

975
01:04:13,337 --> 01:04:16,877
♪ for majestic ♪

976
01:04:16,919 --> 01:04:21,919
♪ all my wondering days ♪

977
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:28,440
♪ searching god's creation ♪

978
01:04:29,771 --> 01:04:34,771
♪ for the answers to prayers I've prayed ♪

979
01:04:37,736 --> 01:04:42,736
♪ tryna see the simple beauty ♪

980
01:04:42,937 --> 01:04:47,937
♪ looking for majestic ♪

981
01:04:49,402 --> 01:04:52,902
♪ seems like all my years ♪

982
01:04:56,651 --> 01:04:59,234
(Upbeat music)

983
01:05:03,750 --> 01:05:07,888
- I always say that arts is
a way you package a city.

984
01:05:07,930 --> 01:05:10,068
It's the way that you bring personality.

985
01:05:10,110 --> 01:05:12,158
It's the way that you bring passion.

986
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:15,978
So this council has
been incredibly supportive

987
01:05:16,020 --> 01:05:18,288
of making sure that we are really

988
01:05:18,330 --> 01:05:20,743
infusing art in the city of Reno.

989
01:05:20,785 --> 01:05:23,548
And I think that was
something that was missed

990
01:05:23,590 --> 01:05:24,978
for a very long time,

991
01:05:25,020 --> 01:05:28,138
whether it's planning
infrastructure within streets, right?

992
01:05:28,180 --> 01:05:29,558
Or within buildings.

993
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:32,828
And so we always like to as a council,

994
01:05:32,870 --> 01:05:37,058
ask those developers, "where
do you see arts and culture

995
01:05:37,100 --> 01:05:38,797
fitting into this project?"

996
01:05:40,140 --> 01:05:42,837
And so we start to educate
them why arts and culture

997
01:05:42,879 --> 01:05:47,498
are so important, not only
for economic development,

998
01:05:47,540 --> 01:05:49,138
but for bringing a community together.

999
01:05:49,180 --> 01:05:52,328
If you can imagine a building
that has no personality,

1000
01:05:52,370 --> 01:05:57,008
no arts and culture
embedded in it, you really,

1001
01:05:57,050 --> 01:06:00,798
it doesn't really take
on any life of its own.

1002
01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:04,058
And it really sort of, I
say it doesn't have a soul.

1003
01:06:04,100 --> 01:06:07,348
So we want to bring sort
of the soul and personality

1004
01:06:07,390 --> 01:06:09,358
and passion into those projects.

1005
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:11,548
And we believe that that comes through art.

1006
01:06:11,590 --> 01:06:16,590
I think more than ever
public art is critical.

1007
01:06:17,530 --> 01:06:20,998
Remember it brings communities together.

1008
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:24,348
There's many times I can
walk outside to the belief sign

1009
01:06:24,390 --> 01:06:28,078
or to the whale, and there'll
be people gathered around it,

1010
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:30,138
taking pictures, talking about it.

1011
01:06:30,180 --> 01:06:35,180
And I think that is important
when it comes to public art.

1012
01:06:35,270 --> 01:06:37,928
And it's something that you can give back

1013
01:06:37,970 --> 01:06:42,263
to your entire community
if you plan it correctly.

1014
01:06:45,130 --> 01:06:48,468
And that's another thing
that I love about art politically.

1015
01:06:48,510 --> 01:06:52,318
We don't see it becoming a
Democratic or republican issue.

1016
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:55,138
We see it, you know,
something that we can all

1017
01:06:55,180 --> 01:06:57,698
come together on and
support one another on.

1018
01:06:57,740 --> 01:06:59,958
And so I think art also plays

1019
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:01,843
a very big role, politically.

1020
01:07:04,570 --> 01:07:08,568
- I had been here for about
10 or 12 years with a business,

1021
01:07:08,610 --> 01:07:12,288
and I noticed that there
was starting to be an influx

1022
01:07:12,330 --> 01:07:15,618
of new young professionals
coming over from California

1023
01:07:15,660 --> 01:07:20,387
with the higher taxes and their
Tesla and switch and Google.

1024
01:07:21,690 --> 01:07:24,768
And I could see that
there was a rebirth coming

1025
01:07:24,810 --> 01:07:26,710
and I decided I wanted to participate.

1026
01:07:29,810 --> 01:07:34,810
Art is a, gives people a new
way to look at their downtown.

1027
01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:39,588
The area that we're in
was a very difficult area

1028
01:07:39,630 --> 01:07:41,368
with a lot of problems.

1029
01:07:41,410 --> 01:07:44,248
And so people kind of
looked at western half of

1030
01:07:44,290 --> 01:07:47,698
downtown Reno as an
area they didn't want to visit.

1031
01:07:47,740 --> 01:07:50,468
They didn't wanna have
anything to do with it.

1032
01:07:50,510 --> 01:07:52,428
It was a doormat so to speak

1033
01:07:52,470 --> 01:07:57,108
and art livens the soul,

1034
01:07:57,150 --> 01:08:01,778
and it gets people excited
and interested and activated.

1035
01:08:01,820 --> 01:08:03,848
And all of the above is what

1036
01:08:03,890 --> 01:08:05,840
it's helping to bring to downtown Reno.

1037
01:08:08,531 --> 01:08:11,968
You know, when we started
putting art up on fourth street,

1038
01:08:12,010 --> 01:08:14,918
when this art came about,
people were looking at it,

1039
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:17,408
they didn't understand
what I was doing, you know,

1040
01:08:17,450 --> 01:08:19,446
and, but within a couple of days,

1041
01:08:19,488 --> 01:08:22,098
selfies are coming out and people

1042
01:08:22,140 --> 01:08:23,888
they're making that art part of their life.

1043
01:08:23,930 --> 01:08:25,352
They're interacting with that art

1044
01:08:25,394 --> 01:08:30,394
and art enlivens the soul,
and the folks are enjoying it.

1045
01:08:32,590 --> 01:08:35,128
Well, it's going to be a 30
year overnight success story.

1046
01:08:35,170 --> 01:08:37,188
You know, it's not going
to happen overnight,

1047
01:08:37,230 --> 01:08:41,018
but we did this in Cleveland as well.

1048
01:08:41,060 --> 01:08:46,060
And so we think it gives
people a chance to look at their,

1049
01:08:47,966 --> 01:08:50,438
their life and their
community a little differently,

1050
01:08:50,480 --> 01:08:51,753
a little more uplifting.

1051
01:08:52,671 --> 01:08:55,088
(Soft music)

1052
01:08:58,030 --> 01:09:00,938
- [Jennifer] Public art is
a specific idea or concept.

1053
01:09:00,980 --> 01:09:03,878
So I think it depends on what role

1054
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:05,898
it's playing in its community.

1055
01:09:05,940 --> 01:09:08,868
If it's meant to be, you
know, a social dialogue,

1056
01:09:08,910 --> 01:09:12,628
if it's meant to be a popup exhibit to give

1057
01:09:12,670 --> 01:09:14,368
excitement or life to a community.

1058
01:09:14,410 --> 01:09:16,978
So you have to kind of
understand the integrity

1059
01:09:17,020 --> 01:09:18,348
behind the piece before.

1060
01:09:18,390 --> 01:09:20,308
So I guess it's more about the idea than

1061
01:09:20,350 --> 01:09:22,773
it is about the specific piece.

1062
01:09:24,220 --> 01:09:26,018
With my own personal public art.

1063
01:09:26,060 --> 01:09:31,060
I wanted to share my voice and also share

1064
01:09:31,140 --> 01:09:33,988
that I wanted to be a part
of the community and share,

1065
01:09:34,030 --> 01:09:38,128
you know, that expression
or that joy that art can give.

1066
01:09:38,170 --> 01:09:42,978
I think it's very inspiring
to see a community

1067
01:09:43,020 --> 01:09:45,978
and not just the arts community,
but to see the community,

1068
01:09:46,020 --> 01:09:49,770
you know, the neighborhoods
be so acceptance of

1069
01:09:50,770 --> 01:09:54,438
a little bit more color or
a little bit more dialogue

1070
01:09:54,480 --> 01:09:56,403
through the visual aspect.

1071
01:09:57,600 --> 01:10:01,113
I do think that murals sometimes it's this,

1072
01:10:02,290 --> 01:10:03,898
I dunno, it's like a fine line.

1073
01:10:03,940 --> 01:10:05,808
Like, what is it exactly?

1074
01:10:05,850 --> 01:10:09,918
Is it a commission billboard or is it a,

1075
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:12,888
a tag where an artist is expressing

1076
01:10:12,930 --> 01:10:14,998
maybe a political or social view,

1077
01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:18,086
which is where murals kind of started from?

1078
01:10:18,128 --> 01:10:20,288
(Soft music)

1079
01:10:20,330 --> 01:10:24,038
- I was born in Philippines
and I grew up in stockton,

1080
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:28,828
but now I've been here in
Reno for about 25 years.

1081
01:10:28,870 --> 01:10:30,925
There's no employment where I came from.

1082
01:10:30,967 --> 01:10:34,993
I came in when it was around 1990s.

1083
01:10:35,980 --> 01:10:40,388
We need more artists and we need to

1084
01:10:40,430 --> 01:10:43,593
try to give them more benefits.

1085
01:10:44,630 --> 01:10:49,630
Cause I know art is not really
a month to month income,

1086
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:53,601
but we need to encourage
the young generation

1087
01:10:53,643 --> 01:10:58,643
to express through art and
you can make money of it.

1088
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:00,963
But I know it might take a while.

1089
01:11:01,005 --> 01:11:03,422
(Soft music)

1090
01:11:04,440 --> 01:11:05,718
New generation nowadays,

1091
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:09,593
they're so busy with their
phones or gadgets and all that,

1092
01:11:09,635 --> 01:11:12,918
but I think we need to
put our cell phone down

1093
01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:16,355
or any gadgets down and
just go out in a weekend

1094
01:11:16,397 --> 01:11:18,598
and just go to the museum.

1095
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:21,003
I think that's why we lack of his time.

1096
01:11:21,854 --> 01:11:24,271
(Soft music)

1097
01:11:26,450 --> 01:11:27,988
- [Michelle] When I
started, when I was eight,

1098
01:11:28,030 --> 01:11:31,058
I had a pie buckskin dress
that was handed down,

1099
01:11:31,100 --> 01:11:32,528
made by my great grandmother.

1100
01:11:32,570 --> 01:11:34,828
So buckskin is the hide of a deer.

1101
01:11:34,870 --> 01:11:37,308
And at the time I thought I was the most

1102
01:11:37,350 --> 01:11:39,768
boring ass thing,
there's no shiny on there.

1103
01:11:39,810 --> 01:11:43,768
The beads were like basic
colors, red, green, no shine.

1104
01:11:43,810 --> 01:11:46,028
And then I would see that
some other girls dancing

1105
01:11:46,070 --> 01:11:48,218
with their fancy shawls
or their jingle dresses.

1106
01:11:48,260 --> 01:11:51,488
And I was like, wow,
that's what I wanna do.

1107
01:11:51,530 --> 01:11:54,928
But in my family handed
down my family was not that.

1108
01:11:54,970 --> 01:11:57,738
So I was like, okay, well I
guess I'm stuck dancing this.

1109
01:11:57,780 --> 01:12:00,278
I used to watch mtv as much as I could.

1110
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:03,908
I would watch Michael Jackson,
Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul.

1111
01:12:03,950 --> 01:12:05,698
I was a big mc hammer fan.

1112
01:12:05,740 --> 01:12:07,898
That was my first concert I went to.

1113
01:12:07,940 --> 01:12:09,988
So we had no more outfits.

1114
01:12:10,030 --> 01:12:13,128
And so I kind of threw
myself into watching the,

1115
01:12:13,170 --> 01:12:15,220
watching those entertainers all the time.

1116
01:12:17,910 --> 01:12:20,958
Then I came back to my
culture after having been

1117
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:24,950
classically music trained after doing

1118
01:12:26,270 --> 01:12:29,518
classical music so long, it
wasn't fulfilling me anymore.

1119
01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:31,948
Going into other countries
or even on reservations

1120
01:12:31,990 --> 01:12:34,928
where they've had a lot of
suicide or things like that.

1121
01:12:34,970 --> 01:12:38,410
We would use these dances
somewhat in a modern way

1122
01:12:39,610 --> 01:12:42,763
because it's a healing dance
and I'd still wear the dress,

1123
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:47,608
whether it's plain or,
or really just decorative.

1124
01:12:47,650 --> 01:12:50,858
The purpose behind the dances
for healing at that moment.

1125
01:12:50,900 --> 01:12:53,483
(Upbeat music)

1126
01:13:38,835 --> 01:13:43,835
♪ Been looking for majestic ♪

1127
01:13:45,406 --> 01:13:50,406
♪ Rose among the thorns ♪

1128
01:13:51,426 --> 01:13:54,727
♪ in the sunrise ♪

1129
01:13:54,769 --> 01:13:57,932
♪ in in the canyon ♪

1130
01:13:57,974 --> 01:14:02,974
♪ in the thunder before the storm ♪

1131
01:14:05,913 --> 01:14:10,913
♪ in the mountain Ridge ♪

1132
01:14:12,568 --> 01:14:17,568
♪ where the wind and trees unite ♪

1133
01:14:17,927 --> 01:14:22,927
♪ looking for majestic ♪

1134
01:14:24,332 --> 01:14:27,678
♪ searching all my life ♪

1135
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:30,220
(Soft music)

1136
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:40,529
- Love was part of the first show that

1137
01:14:40,571 --> 01:14:44,668
the foundation arranged for us.

1138
01:14:44,710 --> 01:14:49,046
There were 80 weddings that
occurred in the letters of love.

1139
01:14:49,088 --> 01:14:51,578
(Soft music)

1140
01:14:51,620 --> 01:14:55,198
Artists are a unique group
of people on the planet.

1141
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:59,373
99% are wonderful, decent, intelligent,

1142
01:15:00,300 --> 01:15:02,040
very capable and very

1143
01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:05,788
progressive in their thinking.

1144
01:15:05,830 --> 01:15:09,098
They've said the most
important quality of art

1145
01:15:09,140 --> 01:15:11,910
is to please our species

1146
01:15:12,853 --> 01:15:17,008
and whatever does that is good art.

1147
01:15:17,050 --> 01:15:19,968
If it's dancing, if it's writing it's,

1148
01:15:20,010 --> 01:15:24,088
whatever those forms are most successful

1149
01:15:24,130 --> 01:15:27,423
and many, many people enjoy them.

1150
01:15:28,410 --> 01:15:31,258
And the famous artists
and the non-famous artists

1151
01:15:31,300 --> 01:15:33,603
are equally skilled in my opinion.

1152
01:15:35,150 --> 01:15:39,918
Well, we've been having a
sculpture garden for 23 years

1153
01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:42,491
and we mostly have local artists.

1154
01:15:42,533 --> 01:15:45,418
Some are a little bit further away,

1155
01:15:45,460 --> 01:15:49,747
and most of them are
local artists that I got to meet

1156
01:15:51,730 --> 01:15:54,281
and invite to show in our garden.

1157
01:15:54,323 --> 01:15:56,838
(Soft music)

1158
01:15:56,880 --> 01:15:58,918
- [Sonia] I believe artwork
is something that should be

1159
01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:00,648
interacted with when we're children,

1160
01:16:00,690 --> 01:16:02,808
we're raised to sort of stand back from art

1161
01:16:02,850 --> 01:16:03,896
and look at it in a museum.

1162
01:16:03,938 --> 01:16:07,248
And we're not really encouraged
to really interact with art.

1163
01:16:07,290 --> 01:16:08,528
And it gives them a different idea

1164
01:16:08,570 --> 01:16:10,118
of what art means to them.

1165
01:16:10,160 --> 01:16:11,908
It's not something that's removed from you,

1166
01:16:11,950 --> 01:16:12,918
but it's a part of you.

1167
01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:17,138
And I think that that's really
the essence of what art is

1168
01:16:17,180 --> 01:16:18,458
here in the sculpture grove.

1169
01:16:18,500 --> 01:16:20,988
And hopefully in other
places around the world,

1170
01:16:21,030 --> 01:16:23,958
- food is an art form.

1171
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:27,480
Obviously taste is another
sense that you want to

1172
01:16:28,900 --> 01:16:32,438
as important and more and more

1173
01:16:32,480 --> 01:16:33,271
food is more than taste
it's appearance and smell

1174
01:16:33,313 --> 01:16:38,064
all of those things go to make food

1175
01:16:40,870 --> 01:16:43,983
an obviously an art form for sure.

1176
01:16:47,362 --> 01:16:49,945
(Upbeat music)

1177
01:16:52,177 --> 01:16:55,328
- [Joshua] I think, you
know, the job of most art

1178
01:16:55,370 --> 01:17:00,370
is to create almost like a
language, whether whatever it is.

1179
01:17:03,590 --> 01:17:06,488
And I don't know,

1180
01:17:06,530 --> 01:17:08,988
I think like for, at least for me,

1181
01:17:09,030 --> 01:17:10,998
I'm trying to say something through my art.

1182
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:15,258
And if you end up kind
of pulling that out of me,

1183
01:17:15,300 --> 01:17:18,328
it's hopefully that adds to the artwork.

1184
01:17:18,370 --> 01:17:21,788
But sometimes like with
art, there's, there's like a,

1185
01:17:21,830 --> 01:17:25,308
like, I always think
of art and its reaction

1186
01:17:25,350 --> 01:17:28,508
similar to like a relationship in that,

1187
01:17:28,550 --> 01:17:31,880
sometimes people have like this instant

1188
01:17:32,980 --> 01:17:35,418
mutual kind of spark or attraction

1189
01:17:35,460 --> 01:17:38,158
and they kind of get together
and then it builds from there.

1190
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:41,018
So like the more you learn
about the piece or the person,

1191
01:17:41,060 --> 01:17:42,760
the more you fall in love with it,

1192
01:17:44,650 --> 01:17:48,698
- art just always kind
of held my interests.

1193
01:17:48,740 --> 01:17:50,958
I ended up moving a lot as a child.

1194
01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:55,808
Like I was born in Miami,
then moved to Canada.

1195
01:17:55,850 --> 01:18:00,808
Then we were in Oklahoma
then Nicaragua then here.

1196
01:18:00,850 --> 01:18:02,988
And so just moving around a lot,

1197
01:18:03,030 --> 01:18:05,698
I always had art to just
kind of hold my interest

1198
01:18:05,740 --> 01:18:08,958
instead of like, it was just
something that I always kind of

1199
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:11,073
felt safe with and at home with.

1200
01:18:13,170 --> 01:18:17,058
- I think that there's an easy like

1201
01:18:17,100 --> 01:18:20,345
mental exercise you could
play where you just say,

1202
01:18:20,387 --> 01:18:23,688
"how would the world
look if you eliminated artist."

1203
01:18:23,730 --> 01:18:27,118
It's hard to explain how the,
why the world would need art.

1204
01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:29,547
But if you think about
how look when you move,

1205
01:18:29,589 --> 01:18:33,708
when you remove it, I think
that's an easier argument

1206
01:18:33,750 --> 01:18:36,100
to kind of convince
people how important it is.

1207
01:18:39,150 --> 01:18:42,148
- Well, I started out in la as a very

1208
01:18:42,190 --> 01:18:44,688
traditional black and white photographer

1209
01:18:44,730 --> 01:18:48,785
and for decades loved
working in a dark room

1210
01:18:48,827 --> 01:18:53,827
and I'm only fairly recently
made the transition to digital.

1211
01:18:54,290 --> 01:18:57,043
So definitely there's a
lot of emotion in my work.

1212
01:18:58,400 --> 01:19:00,928
I bring my own intention to the work,

1213
01:19:00,970 --> 01:19:02,598
but I also know that any viewer,

1214
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:06,588
any visitor is going to bring
their own baggage with them,

1215
01:19:06,630 --> 01:19:08,908
their own perspective, their own emotions.

1216
01:19:08,950 --> 01:19:11,978
So I leave it open to the viewer.

1217
01:19:12,020 --> 01:19:14,378
(Soft music)

1218
01:19:14,420 --> 01:19:16,078
Some people would say no,

1219
01:19:16,120 --> 01:19:20,458
but I know some of my work
has been social issue oriented.

1220
01:19:20,500 --> 01:19:22,858
And I absolutely believe that it can be art

1221
01:19:22,900 --> 01:19:25,898
and it can have political statements,

1222
01:19:25,940 --> 01:19:29,668
but I also always want to
leave room for people to bring

1223
01:19:29,710 --> 01:19:32,360
the viewer, to bring what
they want to bring to it.

1224
01:19:32,402 --> 01:19:34,819
(Soft music)

1225
01:19:41,017 --> 01:19:44,448
- I came from Mexico
like about six years ago.

1226
01:19:44,490 --> 01:19:47,868
And I started working
here in this barbershop,

1227
01:19:47,910 --> 01:19:49,323
like about a year ago.

1228
01:19:50,330 --> 01:19:52,018
When I started going to college,

1229
01:19:52,060 --> 01:19:54,278
I wanted to become like an artist.

1230
01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:58,118
Like I'm an animator
artist doing more like stories

1231
01:19:58,160 --> 01:20:01,048
and drawings at the same
time, like making books.

1232
01:20:01,090 --> 01:20:02,788
Cause I like to try to try to.

1233
01:20:02,830 --> 01:20:06,688
Barber actually like
changed my mind totally.

1234
01:20:06,730 --> 01:20:11,730
Now my dream is like, as
a barber as an artist barber.

1235
01:20:12,106 --> 01:20:14,523
(Soft music)

1236
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:18,081
Most of the barbers
nowadays, it's just like,

1237
01:20:18,123 --> 01:20:20,513
they just want to like
cut hair and get money.

1238
01:20:21,440 --> 01:20:25,908
But there's, for me,
it's more like a passion.

1239
01:20:25,950 --> 01:20:27,493
I do it because I like it.

1240
01:20:30,130 --> 01:20:32,898
I didn't even expect the
money at the beginning.

1241
01:20:32,940 --> 01:20:36,433
I was just like, I just wanted
it to become like good.

1242
01:20:37,789 --> 01:20:40,008
My best version pretty much.

1243
01:20:40,050 --> 01:20:44,368
And then I've been like
practicing every time,

1244
01:20:44,410 --> 01:20:46,498
I've been staying pretty late,

1245
01:20:46,540 --> 01:20:50,633
waking up early and then
I've been practicing a lot.

1246
01:20:51,812 --> 01:20:55,093
Not everybody can be an
artiste, its not an inside thing.

1247
01:20:56,240 --> 01:20:58,343
This is a passion you got a feeling,

1248
01:20:59,660 --> 01:21:02,368
it's not something like,
you just want to do art

1249
01:21:02,410 --> 01:21:04,408
and then start doing it.

1250
01:21:04,450 --> 01:21:07,538
I feel like there need to be a motivator.

1251
01:21:07,580 --> 01:21:12,174
They gotta start looking
at life in a better way.

1252
01:21:12,216 --> 01:21:14,955
(Upbeat music)

1253
01:21:14,997 --> 01:21:18,228
You actually can become an artist,

1254
01:21:18,270 --> 01:21:21,518
if you really like compromise yourself.

1255
01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:26,108
And like, put in time on it.

1256
01:21:26,150 --> 01:21:28,110
Cause I, I have seen like people who

1257
01:21:29,570 --> 01:21:31,368
used to draw pretty bad

1258
01:21:31,410 --> 01:21:33,105
but when they started taking my classes

1259
01:21:33,147 --> 01:21:37,158
and then like, it's actually a long way,

1260
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:39,528
but after like five, six years,

1261
01:21:39,570 --> 01:21:41,718
they become pretty good artists.

1262
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:43,958
Like, so everyone can become an artist

1263
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:46,583
if they really focused on that.

1264
01:21:50,472 --> 01:21:52,889
(Soft music)