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12:52:50:27 >>> And now, an eight special 12:54:13:06 presentation.
12:54:13:27 12:54:19:21 >>> this time on "ArtBeat
12:54:19:21 Nation," a quilting exhibit 12:54:19:21 that echoes the deep roots of
a 12:54:19:21 community.
12:54:22:27 >> It is, if I may say, a 12:54:22:27 tactile representation of the
12:54:22:27 traditions. 12:54:30:09 >>> An artist who uses his
12:54:30:09 unique humor and wit to 12:54:30:09 captivate his audience.
12:54:34:15 >> Jeffu Warmouth's No More 12:54:34:15 Funny Stuff literally
12:54:34:15 invigorates the museum. 12:54:44:27 It brings us into the 21st
12:54:44:27 century. 12:54:45:12 >>> An opera singer who adds a
12:54:45:12 modern twist to the genre. 12:54:47:21 >> I would characterize my
12:54:47:21 music as opera, operatic pop, 12:54:47:21 and easy listening.
12:54:55:15 >>> And a Western art exhibit 12:54:55:15 changes viewers' interpretation
12:54:55:15 of the landscape around them. 12:54:58:21 >> This show allows artists of
12:54:58:21 today to not reinterpret, but 12:54:58:21 to say it through their own
12:54:58:21 visual vocabulary. 12:54:13:21 >>> It's all ahead on this
12:54:13:21 edition of "Artbeat Nation." 12:55:10:21 ��
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12:55:29:27 >>> Funding for "Artbeat 12:55:29:27 Nation" is made possible by
12:55:29:27 contributions to Eight from 12:55:29:27 viewers like you.
12:55:33:18 Thank you. 12:55:37:18 >>> Tucked away in the northern
12:55:37:18 Florida town of Eatonville are 12:55:37:18 quilters Ella Dinkins and
12:55:37:18 Josephine Burns. 12:55:42:27 By matching scraps together,
12:55:42:27 the two women create authentic 12:55:42:27 woven representations of the
12:55:42:27 African-American traditions of 12:55:42:27 their community.
12:55:54:06 >> I like putting colors 12:55:54:06 together mostly, and that
12:55:54:06 sometimes is difficult because 12:55:54:06 you can't find the right color,
12:55:54:06 and then you have to stop on 12:55:54:06 that and go to something, to a
12:55:54:06 color that you have a lot of 12:55:54:06 colors of.
12:56:06:15 The other day with all these 12:56:06:15 scraps I had, I got together
12:56:06:15 with myself and sat in the 12:56:06:15 chair because all the blues
12:56:06:15 out, greens out, different 12:56:06:15 colors out and put them in
12:56:06:15 different containers and say I 12:56:06:15 can't use this until I stored
12:56:06:15 it away. 12:56:24:27 Sometimes I remember that, oh,
12:56:24:27 I store it away, there was a 12:56:24:27 color I could use.
12:56:31:03 So I have to go dig out and get 12:56:31:03 the bag and get the colors
12:56:35:12 out of that will make something 12:56:35:12 different.
12:56:40:21 >> I take scraps and I cut out 12:56:40:21 circles, and I hem it all the
12:56:40:21 way around and join it together 12:56:40:21 and that makes a rosebud.
12:56:54:00 They call it rosebuds now. 12:56:59:27 >> It's amazing.
12:57:01:18 People give you scraps, and in 12:57:01:18 those scraps, you'll find many
12:57:01:18 things. 12:57:06:09 >> I love to do it, but I can't
12:57:06:09 do as much as I used to do 12:57:06:09 because I have cramps in my
12:57:06:09 hands. 12:57:17:00 I can do so much and get
12:57:17:00 cramps, I have to stop, if I 12:57:17:00 did it all the time,
12:57:17:00 constantly, it would take me a 12:57:17:00 year to make a nice big one.
12:57:24:03 >> Everything is by hand. 12:57:27:15 Putting the pieces together and
12:57:27:15 doing the quilting is all 12:57:27:15 handwork.
12:57:33:15 Years ago we had a rack that we 12:57:33:15 put the quilts on and roll it
12:57:33:15 and do it like that, but I put 12:57:33:15 mine across my lap and I quilt
12:57:33:15 like that. 12:57:46:03 People don't understand the
12:57:46:03 time that you have to put in to 12:57:46:03 make the quilt.
12:57:51:00 And when you give them the 12:57:51:00 price, they say, wow, that's
12:57:51:00 too much. 12:57:55:06 But they don't realize they are
12:57:55:06 getting something. 12:57:58:15 They go to the store and pay
12:57:58:15 twice as much for something 12:57:58:15 that's not nearly as authentic
12:57:58:15 as what you're getting from me. 12:58:10:15 >> They don't understand how
12:58:10:15 much patience and time it takes 12:58:10:15 to do these things.
12:58:15:00 It really takes time to do 12:58:15:00 that.
12:58:18:15 After you make the circle, 12:58:18:15 you've got to sit down and sew
12:58:18:15 them together. 12:55:11:12 I can do it a few hours and
12:55:11:12 then the cramps catch me and I 12:55:11:12 have to stop.
12:58:31:27 [ Laughter ] 12:58:32:12
12:58:35:15 >> My grandmother first taught 12:58:35:15 me when I was a child about
12:58:35:15 quilting and embroidering. 12:58:41:21 And then later on in years
12:58:41:21 after I went to school and 12:58:41:21 whatnot, then I started
12:58:41:21 quilting small pieces, but in 12:58:41:21 these recent years, I've made
12:58:41:21 many quilts. 12:58:59:21 >> My mother quilted, too, and
12:58:59:21 she handmade some beautiful 12:58:59:21 quilts, and when she died, she
12:58:59:21 had a trunkful of scraps and 12:58:59:21 quilt tops and stuff she
12:58:59:21 started making and hadn't 12:58:59:21 finished.
12:59:12:12 It was four of us girls, four 12:59:12:12 girls, and none of them wanted
12:59:12:12 scraps. 12:59:18:06 I thought, you know what, I'll
12:59:18:06 take these scraps. 12:59:25:24 I'm going to take them and I'll
12:59:25:24 make something out of them. 12:59:27:09 I love it.
12:59:31:03 If people would do it, they'd 12:59:31:03 love to do it, too, but you've
12:59:31:03 got to have patience, plenty of 12:59:31:03 patience.
12:59:39:12 To do that work because one 12:59:39:12 girl was wanting to know how to
12:59:39:12 do it. 12:59:43:18 I showed her how to do it and
12:59:43:18 she called me and told me -- 12:59:46:06 [ laughter ]
12:59:48:03 -- it took her four minutes to 12:59:48:03 make one.
12:59:54:09 >> Oh, I think Eatonville is 12:59:54:09 the most precious place,
12:59:54:09 really, in this world. 13:00:00:12 When I listen to things
13:00:00:12 happening all over the world, 13:00:00:12 we have some difficulties, but
13:00:00:12 the difficulties people having 13:00:00:12 now, we don't have that.
13:00:09:09 >> I remember when I was 13:00:09:09 younger, I used to come to
13:00:09:09 Eatonville from Oveida. 13:00:15:09 They had a chorus.
13:00:17:21 Every Sunday afternoon, they 13:00:17:21 have a concert and my mother
13:00:17:21 would bring us to the concert. 13:00:25:27 >> You have two women, one in
13:00:25:27 her mid-90s, the other I 13:00:25:27 think maybe early 80s, and
13:00:25:27 they do represent, if I may 13:00:25:27 say, a tactile representation
13:00:25:27 of the traditions of Eatonville 13:00:25:27 and any of these communities
13:00:25:27 that are steeped in heritage. 13:00:44:09 In this instance, the heritage
13:00:44:09 is of African ancestry. 13:00:47:00 You'll find in any traditional
13:00:47:00 community. 13:00:53:15 >> Jim Crow laws, that was the
13:00:53:15 legalization of separation of 13:00:53:15 the races in all things and
13:00:53:15 really was a disenfranchisement 13:01:01:03 Of the African-American
13:01:01:03 population. 13:01:03:00 Because of the physical danger
13:01:03:00 of the black population, there 13:01:03:00 were some people in that
13:01:03:00 community that said if we 13:01:03:00 cannot live in peace with
13:01:03:00 Whites, we need to separate. 13:01:15:00 So the difference with the
13:01:15:00 establishment of Eatonville, 13:01:15:00 which really was established as
13:01:15:00 a part of what was called -- 12:58:32:12 The race colony movement.
13:01:27:03 that there were black people 13:01:27:03 who had money and there were
13:01:27:03 white people who were willing 13:01:27:03 to sell the land.
13:01:31:12 So the historical significance 13:01:31:12 of Eatonville is since 1887.
13:01:36:24 13:01:23:24
13:01:38:24 without any lapse has been a 13:01:38:24 self-governing community.
13:01:42:18 The oldest incorporated 13:01:42:18 African-American municipality
13:01:42:18 in the country. 13:01:47:21 >> For more information about
13:01:47:21 the exhibit, visit hccfl.edu. 13:01:54:06 >>> The Fitchburg art museum in
13:01:54:06 Massachusetts aspires to create 13:01:54:06 a more sophisticated art
13:01:54:06 culture in an industrial city 13:01:54:06 that has fallen on hard times.
13:02:01:21 The museum recently welcomed 13:02:01:21 its first retrospective
13:02:01:21 contemporary art exhibit no 13:02:01:21 more funny stuff by Jeffu
13:02:01:21 Warmouth, a man who has spent 13:02:01:21 his lifetime dabbling with art,
13:02:01:21 video, and humor. 13:02:14:24 Let's take a look.
13:02:16:21 >> There is now more muscle in 13:02:16:21 the mission at the Fitchburg
13:02:16:21 Art Museum. 13:02:20:15 >> I want everybody who comes
13:02:20:15 to this museum to leave with 13:02:20:15 these words on their lips, oh
13:02:20:15 my god, you can't believe what 13:02:20:15 I just saw at the Fitchburg art
13:02:20:15 museum. 13:02:32:15 >> Nick Capasso is the new
13:02:32:15 director of the museum. 13:02:38:15 He is energetic and undaunted,
13:02:38:15 inheriting a sizable, 13:02:38:15 well-funded museum boasting
13:02:38:15 impressive collections in both 13:02:38:15 African art and photography.
13:02:44:09 >> We're a little out of scale 13:02:44:09 for the city.
13:02:51:03 Fitchburg is 40,000 people and 13:02:51:03 this is a big museum, I was
13:02:51:03 surprised at how large it is. 13:02:53:24 >> Fitchburg art is a boon in
a 13:02:53:24 city that doesn't have many of
13:02:53:24 them. 13:02:59:27 The economic downturn has hit
13:02:59:27 here like a slalom. 13:03:01:09 Fitchburg's main street, lined
13:03:01:09 with empty storefronts, runs 13:03:01:09 like a scar through downtown.
13:03:05:06 Which is why Capasso believes 13:03:05:06 in leading Fitchburg art, he
13:03:05:06 has a role and a 13:03:05:06 responsibility.
13:03:10:27 >> We're involved in creating a
13:03:10:27 downtown cultural district 13:03:10:27 here.
13:03:16:21 We're involved in placing 13:03:16:21 public art of main street.
13:03:19:15 We're involved in creating 13:03:19:15 affordable artist workspace in
13:03:19:15 the city. 13:03:26:03 It's a different way to think
13:03:26:03 about museums. 13:03:29:24 When you think about having a
13:03:29:24 museum serve a community as 13:03:29:24 opposed to the museum audience,
13:03:29:24 see the difference? 13:03:39:09 >> Same goes for inside the
13:03:39:09 museum, where Fitchburg art has 13:03:39:09 just opened No More Funny
13:03:39:09 Stuff, the first-ever 13:03:39:09 retrospective of contemporary
13:03:39:09 artist Jeffu Warmouth. 13:03:51:18 >> The Jeffu Warmouth No More
13:03:51:18 Funny Stuff literally 13:03:51:18 invigorates the museum.
13:03:56:03 It brings us into the 21st 13:03:56:03 century.
13:03:58:12 There is a video projection, an 13:03:58:12 interactive artwork, and
13:03:58:12 performance stage artwork. 13:04:04:18 >> And loads of humor in the
13:04:04:18 show which is a romp through 13:04:04:18 more than 20 years of the
13:04:04:18 artist's work. 13:04:09:00 >> Transplant was really the
13:04:09:00 breakthrough work in the funny 13:04:09:00 stuff as it were.
13:04:14:15 I was rifling through the 13:04:14:15 yellow pages and saw one of
13:04:14:15 those ads for hair transplant 13:04:14:15 service and I just wanted to do
13:04:14:15 some kind of parody of it. 13:04:23:00 >> Warmouth revels in the
13:04:23:00 absurd. 13:04:25:12 And the longtime Fitchburg
13:04:25:12 State University professor 13:04:25:12 often casts himself in the
13:04:25:12 heart of it. 13:04:31:03 >> I was kind of interested
13:04:31:03 this formative idea of everyman 13:04:31:03 character, sort of a stand-in
13:04:31:03 for humanity. 13:04:43:06 I'm a fairly convenient
13:04:43:06 stand-in so I'm always at hand 13:04:43:06 to photograph.
13:04:52:21 >> His piece Crawl in which 13:04:52:21 he's incessantly moving along
13:04:52:21 confined tracks, is funny until 13:04:52:21 it's not.
13:04:56:00 It could be whimsy. 13:04:57:27 It could also be an indictment
13:04:57:27 of a life of labor. 13:05:00:03 >> I love that this work can
13:05:00:03 have a fairly open set of 13:05:00:03 reactions that people will
13:05:00:03 project themselves into the 13:05:00:03 work and whatever they bring to
13:05:00:03 the table and whatever they are 13:05:00:03 feeling about themselves or the
13:05:00:03 situation will often color the 13:05:00:03 way that they read the work.
13:05:25:27 >> With the tool of humor, Jeff 13:05:25:27 can sort of deliver you very
13:05:25:27 quickly to deeper emotional 13:05:25:27 places.
13:05:30:15 Whether those places are 13:05:30:15 something's simple like that
13:05:30:15 delight or more complicated 13:05:30:15 like anxiety or boredom, or
13:05:30:15 ennui or existential angst. 13:05:43:03 It's a direct, a main line to
13:05:43:03 your gut. 13:05:48:09 >> A place he hits hard in
13:05:48:09 Super Jeffu Market: A 13:05:48:09 self-portrait.
13:05:53:21 >> That definitely arose from 13:05:53:21 social commentary in this
13:05:53:21 notion that in consumer world, 13:05:53:21 our identities are fragmented.
13:06:04:03 We get served up different 13:06:04:03 ideas on what we are suppose to
13:06:04:03 be by the media, by advertisers 13:06:04:03 and by makers of products of
13:06:04:03 various kinds. 13:06:15:24 So this idea that I'm not a
13:06:15:24 complete person, but I'm a 13:06:15:24 montage of fragments of
13:06:15:24 different identities. 13:06:26:15 >> Does this start with the
13:06:26:15 humorous side? 13:01:36:24 You know what the subtext is?
13:06:34:03 How does that work? 13:06:34:24 >> Often, humor comes up
13:06:34:24 because I find something funny. 13:06:36:12 Wordplay just comes naturally
13:06:36:12 to me so I'll do work that's 13:06:36:12 funny.
13:06:42:09 Sometimes there is a subtext, 13:06:42:09 sometimes there is a deep
13:06:42:09 subtext that's political or 13:06:42:09 social and sometimes it's just
13:06:42:09 hilarious. 13:06:49:03 >> In his dueling fast food
13:06:49:03 kiosks JFC and Jeffu Burger, 13:06:49:03 patrons place an order and
13:06:49:03 Warmouth serves up some dish, 13:06:49:03 or rather, he slings it.
13:07:02:15 >> Very much thinking about 13:07:02:15 fast-food as a cybernetic
13:07:02:15 experience. 13:07:09:12 The relationship between food
13:07:09:12 and technology, fast food and 13:07:09:12 technology both consumer
13:07:09:12 culture technology in the 13:07:09:12 literal sense and way that we
13:07:09:12 even order food from a Dunkin 13:07:09:12 Donuts or McDonald's.
13:07:25:24 Are you really talking to a 13:07:25:24 person or are you talking to a
13:07:25:24 machine on the other side of 13:07:25:24 the window?
13:07:30:03 >> Funny, the questions posed 13:07:30:03 here.
13:07:32:06 Because it's the answers that 13:07:32:06 will nail you.
13:06:33:00 >> For more, check out 13:06:33:00 jeffu.tv.
13:07:43:03 �� 13:07:43:12 ��
13:07:43:21 13:07:53:00 >>> Ingvar Estrada's
13:07:53:00 mesmerizing voice has captured 13:07:53:00 audiences around the world.
13:07:57:06 By drawing on his Italian 13:07:57:06 heritage, this Las Vegas opera
13:07:57:06 singer has both revived the 13:07:57:06 classics and given them a
13:07:57:06 modern twist. 13:07:43:18 Let's listen in as Estrada
13:07:43:18 describes his practice regimen 13:07:43:18 and how he is able to produce
13:07:43:18 such a rich tenor tone. 13:08:11:21 ��
13:08:11:27 �� 13:08:12:09
13:08:22:09 >> My name is Ingvar Estrada 13:08:22:09 and I am a singer.
13:08:23:06 I am originally from Rome, 13:08:23:06 Italy.
13:08:27:03 I speak a little Italian and I 13:08:27:03 sing in three languages:
13:08:27:03 Italian, Spanish and French. 13:08:35:27 My favorite language is
13:08:35:27 Italian. 13:08:12:03 It's a romantic language and
13:08:12:03 the music is just glorious. 13:08:44:24 ��
13:08:45:03 �� 13:08:45:15
13:08:49:06 >> I would characterize my 13:08:49:06 music as opera, operatic pop,
13:08:49:06 and easy listening. 13:09:01:00 I've performed for the Las
13:09:01:00 Vegas philharmonic, MGM grand 13:09:01:00 the Las Vegas Hilton.
13:09:06:12 I've performed with Siegfried 13:09:06:12 and Roy, Rich Little, and
13:09:06:12 numerous others. 13:08:45:09 I practice once to twice a day,
13:08:45:09 three days a week. 13:09:19:15 ��
13:09:19:24 �� 13:09:20:03
13:09:22:03 Very important to rest the 13:09:22:03 vocal chords.
13:09:25:00 My special singing potion is 13:09:25:00 chamomile tea with lemon, honey
13:09:25:00 and olive oil, which helps to 13:09:25:00 lubricate the vocal chords.
13:09:34:06 I'm working on going back to 13:09:34:06 the opera and the classics,
13:09:34:06 those great standards of the 13:09:34:06 greatest tenors of the last
13:09:34:06 century: Pavarotti, Mario 13:09:34:06 Lanza, Placido Domingo.
13:09:48:18 I absolutely love the classics. 13:09:50:15 There's so many songs that are
13:09:50:15 like jewels. 13:09:53:12 Just to find them to find the
13:09:53:12 right ones and put them 13:09:53:12 together accordingly I think
13:09:53:12 it's a wonderful thing to do. 13:10:05:18 Growing up, my parents
13:10:05:18 constantly played the opera 13:10:05:18 around the house.
13:10:09:00 My mother was an opera singer 13:10:09:00 and my father was formerly a
13:10:09:00 music conductor in Bogot�, 13:10:09:00 Colombia, and he relocated to
13:10:09:00 Rome, Italy, and he composed 13:10:09:00 musical scores for films.
13:10:26:18 My mother would constantly be 13:10:26:18 singing opera and playing opera
13:10:26:18 around the house and my father 13:10:26:18 as well was a concert pianist
13:10:26:18 and a music professor in 13:10:26:18 addition to a conductor and
13:10:26:18 music was just constantly 13:10:26:18 around me all my life, so its
13:10:26:18 influenced me ever since. 13:10:48:06 It was wonderful growing up
13:10:48:06 with culture and classical 13:10:48:06 music.
13:10:54:15 I lost my father a few years 13:10:54:15 ago.
13:11:00:03 Losing my father was one of the 13:11:00:03 worst things that could ever
13:11:00:03 happen to me because he was my 13:11:00:03 mentor, he was my best friend.
13:09:20:00 When your parents pass, you 13:11:11:24 regret not sharing more time
13:11:13:27 with them. 13:11:16:06 If I had my way I'd go back and
13:11:16:06 lock myself up in the house 13:11:16:06 growing up and I'd just work on
13:11:16:06 music with my father but I'm 13:11:16:06 thankful for every moment that
13:11:16:06 I learned and enjoyed with him. 13:11:25:24 I think the greatest thing my
13:11:25:24 father taught me was to never 13:11:25:24 quit.
13:11:36:06 The most challenging thing 13:11:36:06 about what I do is the
13:11:36:06 marketing aspect. 13:11:41:12 It would be great to
13:11:41:12 concentrate more on the art of 13:11:41:12 singing.
13:11:45:27 �� 13:11:46:03 ��
13:11:46:18 13:11:50:21 My audience here in Vegas has
13:11:50:21 responded enthusiastically. 13:11:50:21 They've compared me with their
13:11:50:21 favorite singers and some even 13:11:50:21 like me better which I feel
13:11:50:21 thankful, grateful, and blessed 13:11:50:21 for.
13:12:03:12 I love what I do and I love 13:12:03:12 sharing the classics, and
13:12:03:12 ultimately to make others 13:12:03:12 happy.
13:12:14:09 And the art of music, it just 13:12:14:09 gratifies life.
13:11:46:12 It's just the ultimate 13:11:46:12 happiness for me.
13:12:20:21 �� 13:12:21:00 ��
13:12:21:09 13:12:25:06 >> To learn more, visit
13:12:25:06 ingvarestrada.com. 13:12:31:06 >>> The Coors Western Art
13:12:31:06 Exhibit is a celebration of 13:12:31:06 today's evolving arts culture
13:12:31:06 in the West. 13:12:36:21 The show is held in a
13:12:36:21 traditional Colorado stockyard 13:12:36:21 where viewers are able to
13:12:36:21 experience the show rather than 13:12:36:21 merely view it.
13:12:21:06 The exhibit features 13:12:21:06 contemporary artist Quang Ho,
13:12:21:06 who adds a unique perspective 13:12:21:06 to this art form.
13:12:52:24 �� 13:12:55:03 ��
13:12:55:15 13:13:14:15 >> I know when people think of
13:13:14:15 Western art, immediately it's 13:13:14:15 cowboys, wagon trains, things
13:13:14:15 like that, but that doesn't 13:13:14:15 exist in that fashion today.
13:13:28:21 >> I think the show, how it 13:13:28:21 might differ from the
13:13:28:21 traditional Western art, you 13:13:28:21 think of it as cowboys, and
13:13:28:21 Indians, and horses, and 13:13:28:21 landscapes that have to do with
13:13:28:21 the West. 13:13:38:15 This show allows artists of
13:13:38:15 today to not reinterpret, but 13:13:38:15 to say it through their own
13:13:38:15 visual vocabulary. 13:13:48:06 >> The niche of the Coors
13:13:48:06 Western Art Exhibit and Sale, 13:13:48:06 and my vision as a curator for
13:13:48:06 this show, is to stick with 13:13:48:06 what is happening today,
13:13:48:06 contemporary art. 13:13:57:12 So what we're doing is saying
13:13:57:12 what is the West like today? 13:14:01:09 And in this show, you will see
13:14:01:09 art from so many different 13:14:01:09 artists that have different
13:14:01:09 take on what they see happening 13:14:01:09 in the West and then approach
13:14:01:09 it in their medium. 13:14:11:15 This year, our featured artist
13:14:11:15 is Quang Ho. 13:14:15:24 >> I came from Vietnam in 1975.
13:14:18:12 I came over a day after the 13:14:18:12 fall of Saigon.
13:14:22:09 I was 11 years old. 13:14:24:06 I started drawing when I was
13:14:24:06 about two or three years old 13:14:24:06 and I never stopped.
13:14:28:21 I have trouble going to sleep 13:14:28:21 at night because there is not
13:14:28:21 enough time in a day to do all 13:14:28:21 the concepts that I have in my
13:14:28:21 head. 13:14:34:06 I will never have writers
13:14:34:06 block, in a sense that, I can 13:14:34:06 start with any one thing, a
13:14:34:06 horse, or a still life, or a 13:14:34:06 landscape, and I immediately
13:14:34:06 see 10 different ways to talk 13:14:34:06 about that.
13:14:48:12 >> He absolutely doesn't look 13:14:48:12 like your typical Westerner,
13:14:48:12 but he's very much of the West. 13:14:54:12 He is looking at the West, and
13:14:54:12 horses, and everything else in 13:14:54:12 this countryside from a
13:14:54:12 different perspective. 13:15:03:12 He sees the horses as athletes,
13:15:03:12 he sees them as graceful as 13:15:03:12 ballerinas, but he also brings
13:15:03:12 this really wonderful 13:15:03:12 technique.
13:15:12:27 It's very much the joy of 13:15:12:27 paint, playing with paint,
13:15:12:27 pushing colors in and out, 13:15:12:27 playing with abstract forms.
13:15:20:06 How much can he lose of the 13:15:20:06 horse and still keep us as an
13:15:20:06 audience engaged? 13:15:25:15 >> Some of the paintings, I'll
13:15:25:15 paint a very complete realistic 13:15:25:15 horse and then I scrape it all
13:15:25:15 off and then go back on top of 13:15:25:15 it, so that's why you have
13:15:25:15 layers and layers on the 13:15:25:15 paintings.
13:15:34:06 So the horse is just a starting 13:15:34:06 point.
13:15:36:12 It allows me to explore with 13:15:36:12 paint and the horses can
13:15:36:12 change, too, I'll keep parts of 13:15:36:12 it and let other parts go.
13:15:41:21 So in the end, the composition 13:15:41:21 is what really matters.
13:15:48:09 >> Our artists have a lot of 13:15:48:09 fun with the show.
13:15:54:00 We have oil, pastel, 13:15:54:00 watercolor, bronze, and stone
13:15:54:00 sculpture. 13:15:58:09 We also have clay work in the
13:15:58:09 show which are generally the 13:15:58:09 traditional forms that you find
13:15:58:09 in a show like this. 13:16:02:00 We're one of the few shows that
13:16:02:00 includes photography, there's a
13:16:02:00 photograph in the show that's 13:16:02:00 from Mesquite, Texas, that is
a 13:16:02:00 tree that has several hanging
13:16:02:00 dead coyotes from it, and 13:16:02:00 ranchers to this day, fight
13:16:02:00 with environmentalists and it's 13:16:02:00 a big issue in the West.
13:16:19:03 So instead of shying away from 13:16:19:03 having a confrontational
13:16:19:03 photograph like that in the 13:16:19:03 show, we put it out there and
13:16:19:03 it's going to be a great 13:16:19:03 conversation starter.
13:12:55:12 >> There's such a wonderful 13:12:55:12 variety of work in the show,
13:12:55:12 and Rose has done a great job 13:12:55:12 of bringing it to a higher
13:12:55:12 level than just Western art, in 13:12:55:12 a sense.
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13:16:40:00 13:16:42:09 >> This particular art exhibit,
13:16:42:09 being at the national Western 13:16:42:09 stock show, you don't just
13:16:42:09 experience it visually, you 13:16:42:09 hear it and you smell it.
13:16:51:27 This show, we are on the 13:16:51:27 grounds of the stockyards.
13:16:55:06 It's a lot of fun, it's loud, 13:16:55:06 it's enjoyable, it's an
13:16:55:06 experience, it's a Western 13:16:55:06 experience.
13:17:04:15 And all the net proceeds that 13:17:04:15 we raise from this show goes to
13:17:04:15 the national Western 13:17:04:15 scholarship trust.
13:17:12:24 So we are literally helping 13:17:12:24 keep the Western way of life
13:17:12:24 alive and well because we are 13:17:12:24 putting kids through college
13:17:12:24 who are studying agribusiness, 13:17:12:24 rural family health, medicine,
13:17:12:24 veterinary sciences, and on and 13:17:12:24 on.
13:17:24:09 So we have been able to do some 13:17:24:09 really wonderful things with
13:17:24:09 Western art in a space like 13:17:24:09 this.
13:17:31:06 >> I know what art does to me 13:17:31:06 as an artist.
13:17:32:27 It has taught me to dig deeper. 13:17:36:15 It transports you into a state
13:17:36:15 of esthetic arrest which is, in 13:17:36:15 a way, stepping out of the
13:17:36:15 world, and where time stops, 13:17:36:15 and wanting stops.
13:17:45:12 There is no desire, everything 13:17:45:12 stops, and there is just
13:17:45:12 beauty. 13:17:51:15 >> I think the best way that
13:17:51:15 art in general, and in 13:17:51:15 particular this show, the Coors
13:17:51:15 Western Art Exhibit, can help 13:17:51:15 people understand the West, is
13:17:51:15 when you look at the paintings, 13:17:51:15 and the sculpture, and
13:17:51:15 everything that's in the show, 13:17:51:15 it's very hard to walk out of
13:17:51:15 these doors and not look at the 13:17:51:15 landscape differently.
13:18:11:09 It's an experience and you walk 13:18:11:09 through life and you see the
13:18:11:09 world differently. 13:18:15:03 It's a wonderful thing art does
13:18:15:03 for us. 13:18:19:21 >> For further information
13:18:19:21 visit coorswesternart.com. 13:18:27:18 >>> For more arts and culture,
13:18:27:18 visit azpbs.org/artbeat where 13:18:27:18 you'll find feature videos and
13:18:27:18 information on the Arizona arts 13:18:27:18 scene.
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