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Ministry of Awe feat. Meg Saligman · philly has heART

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Hey Lucinda! Oh my gosh, how was your weekend?
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I think you had a packed one. It was busy. Did
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you tell from the stories? Oh my gosh, yes. We
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were all over Instagram. Yes, you were. It was
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art filled. It was. It was art filled and Petit
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Garçon filled as well. And for those who don't
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know, Petit Garçon is my four -year -old son.
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Loves the art though. Loves the art. Loves immersive
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art even more. his foreign language class was
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actually canceled. Mom failed because we ended
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up showing up at an empty closed office. So we
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ended up going down the street to the Works on
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Paper gallery where he met Mr. Evan and got some
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Stickman sticker art. Very nice. Yeah, he loves
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a sticker. Don't y 'all. His stroller looks like
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the back of a Subaru. And then I took him to
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the Da Vinci Art Alliance for the opening of
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the March exhibitions. First floor, you might
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remember, Sam was here a few weeks ago. Yes,
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female gaze. The female gaze. A few notes on
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the female gaze. Group show, and it was self
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-portraiture. Bloodier than I was expecting,
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but I would go again without Petit Garçon. Yeah.
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However, he loved he loved the pop -up in the
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third story called Soft Palette and this is what
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we were posting stories of on Instagram. It was
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a room with three Velcro canvases quote -unquote
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and there were swaths of fabric. Each swath had
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another the other side of the Velcro on it. So
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anyone who was there could quote unquote paint
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their own piece of art. Wow. Be your own artist
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for the day. Well, listen, Petit Garçon does
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not need soft palette to be his own artist. But
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it certainly made it a little bit more. It was
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not as messy. Something I liked about the soft
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palette exhibition was that each of the three
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canvases were different scales. So you had a
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teeny tiny one which is what he was working with
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and you know a medium one and a larger one and
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along with that came different scales of fabric.
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Very nice. On the second floor of the Da Vinci
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Art Alliance was Natural Emotions. It was a series
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of collages from Carlos A. Gill. He was there
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and we both got to meet him. and the images were
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based on photos of nature which were modified
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they were modified by way of collage and also
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drawing photography software very nice yeah very
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cool sounds like a packed weekend it was a packed
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saturday man i slept hard that night nice okay
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guys on to the conversation Greetings. This is
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Robert Marsh and you're listening to Philly Has
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Heart podcast. In this podcast, we sit down with
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artists, gallerists, educators, curators, and
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other creatives who comprise the Philadelphia
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art world to discuss upcoming performances, exhibitions,
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exhibits, and other events and initiatives that
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are not to be missed. The art scene in Philadelphia
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is so rich, it can seem daunting. Consider this
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your weekend cultural recommendation. With me
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always is my producer Lucinda Deggerlin. Hello,
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hello. And today we have Meg. How do you spell
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your last name? How would you say your last name?
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Saligman. Meg, Saligman. No, Sligman. No, what
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else is it? Saligman. Beautiful artist, muralist.
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current project, Ministry of All. Yes. Currently
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going on. We're so happy to have you today. Thank
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you, I'm happy to be here. Thank you, thank you.
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So Meg, tell us a little bit about yourself.
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Share your true Hollywood story. Oh. Your E true
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Hollywood story. My E true Hollywood story? Okay,
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well I was born in Olean, New York, which was
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a little small town. And I did lots of Play -Doh,
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found object. I had a collection of old chewing
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gum that people thought I was weird, but I love
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to stuff it under my pillow. I would pick it
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up off of streets. So at a very young age, I
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started with the art materials and then got to
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be a teenager and started going bonkers and everybody
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was like, what's wrong with her? I think I was
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bored. And then I went to art school and then
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I got a degree in painting. which was hard, and
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then I started getting full -time jobs, worked
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for a gallery, worked for art center programming
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classes, hated each one, lasted about six months.
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at three different, QVC worked on the set, so
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QVC hated it, hated it. Out in Westchester? Yeah.
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Oh my God. And that was like less than a week
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I lasted there. That sounds about right. That
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was a bit much. And so then I thought, okay,
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the full -time gig is not for me. I quit. This
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was about the time where my poor mother was like,
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well, Megha, you have to like something. You
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work for UPS. I worked for UPS, too. I tried
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that for a while. That was grueling, because
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I thought I could load the UPS trucks from 4
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to 10, be done, and then I could paint all day.
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But the getting up at... like three was a little
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bit much, because we typically didn't get home
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to about two in those days. So the waitress gig
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was much better. It fit my cycle a little bit
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more. So I worked at Serrano and Tin Angel on
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Second Street for about three years and finally
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hooked up with the Philadelphia Anti -Graffiti
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Network. which is, I was very, very lucky, because
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I always loved painting large. I also loved people,
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also loved being outside, and I had been bugging
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Jane Golden for about two years, and finally
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they needed somebody, and I was like, I'm in,
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and then I knew that's what I wanted to do. It
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was everything that I loved, and I happened to
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have a facility for painting large, at a large
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scale. So it was. I just knew right then that's
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what I wanted to do. I love your scale -o -meter
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on your website. I love scale. Oh, thank you.
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Good, good, good. It really puts everything into
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perspective. Maybe if you haven't seen the pieces
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in person, or maybe you don't know that you have,
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it gives you a really good idea of just how large
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everything is. As an example to say, the size
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of some things when you see the little scale
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-o -meter there and you see the size of Omaha,
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Nebraska mural, that is an eight -story building
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tall. by longer than a football field long. So
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that's how big that mural was. And if you just
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see a picture of it, it's the Midwest. Everything's
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huge out there. You don't get it, right? So scale
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is something that, like painting, you'll never
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truly discover it. You'll never figure it out.
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It's always, I love it. That's why I love painting.
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Or when you're painting a mural, how many people
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have the chance to paint? a six story hand, right?
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That's a very lucky thing. And for everybody's
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listening, you have most definitely seen Meg's
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murals out and about. I myself passed your Schuylkill
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mural. That is... passing through. Yes. I pass
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it every day. Yes. On the Schuylkill Expressway.
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And, you know, we we take your public art for,
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you know. It becomes a fabric of the city. It's
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just what. Yeah, exactly. And then if I travel
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to another city to paint a mural, it could be
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the only. And then I'm like, what the heck's
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wrong with Philly, man? Nobody, you know, it's
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just like, oh, another one of those. And you
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go there and they're like, oh my God. So it's
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not a typical thing. We get spoiled here with
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the amount. If you like them, if you don't like
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them, then I guess it's a hindrance, but yeah.
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I believe in them and what they add to our city
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and its fabric. And it distinguishes us. Was
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that my E? I didn't say anything juicy. Mary,
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can you think of anything juicy that we could
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add to that? I met my husband. This is scandalous.
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I met my husband who hired me to paint a mural.
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Workplace romance. And he came in and he had
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hired me to paint a commission on Walnut Street
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in one of the windows. Yes. And he came in and
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he was bed shopping that day. And he was smoking
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a cigarette, wearing a leather jacket. I thought
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he was like this geeky real estate developer.
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and he was talking about bed shopping and I thought
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he was making a pass at me and I thought this
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guy's kind of cool but now that I know him that's
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just what he does like every decision is should
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I buy the bed should I buy the big bed or the
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small bed or the soft bed or the hard bed and
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it's so that's that's how I met my and I'm like
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how and that was through a cold call letter no
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way I sent a letter and I got my first private
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commission You've got to shoot your shot. You've
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got to shoot your shot. That's what I always
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say. You take zero percent of the shots and a
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wonderful husband, lifelong partner for children
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through a cold call letter. A double hitter.
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That's a good E Hollywood story. Oh yes, definitely.
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On your website, you have the four act artist
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statement. For those who are unfamiliar, can
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you share a little bit about that? Yes. If he
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wants to. Yeah, no, I can. I just, I am not...
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I love, different artists have different ways,
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I think, different processes, different ways
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of approaching things. And I tend to be an artist
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who doesn't begin in my own head in my studio.
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And I kind of think, has anybody seen any of
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the David Lynch since he recently passed this
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year? There's been a lot. He has this notion
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of catching ideas. He's like, we don't think
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of ideas. He catches them. And I tend to begin
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that way. So when I was saying an art in four
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acts, the art being the first act being the seeking
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or the catching of the ideas in the world, I
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don't necessarily want to be alone in the creation
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of the work. So for me, that first act is very
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essential. discovery and then the second part
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I would say is the absorbing. So it's the collaboration,
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the calling from the community in a lot of my
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work. The calling from what this discovery reveals
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and that absorption is very much about exchange.
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That's act two and then act three. would be more
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of a transformation or the act of creation, right?
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I tend to be highly collaborative and at the
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same time, I hold my own vision in the work.
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Because if I don't have a distinct voice, then
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what do I have to offer the world, right? And
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then the fourth. is share your story, and I think
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the fourth is what we're really, I was gonna
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say doubling down, tripling down, or let's say
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quadrupling down for act four in my latest project,
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The Ministry of Awe, which is, you know, after
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you've done all this, let's share with one another
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what we've done, that act of sharing the story.
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And perhaps this is where one finds, shared inspiration.
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Oh wow, that's great. Blah, blah, blah, blah,
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blah. Was that a little too artful? No, no, I
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love that. Can we keep talking about the Ministry
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of Awe? Yes. Bring us through the Ministry of
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All. You founded and took over the manufacturer's
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national bank in Old City and created it. We
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bought that damn thing. Oh, I love it. Yes. I
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love it. No small effort. Yes. I'm sure. We have
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purchased that building. We have occupied the
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bank. And as the story goes, I... I received
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in the mail keys from my deceased uncle Billy
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and to the bank, explaining that I was in the
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right place, that he had been caretaker of this
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bank for a long while and that he thought I was
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the right person to... develop this bank. So
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I went in and I thought, oh well we'll make a
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community art studio there, but little did I
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know that the bank was already occupied. That
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the Ministry of Awe is a bank that has been around
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since the beginning of time. Some people say
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it started in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
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It's been around since the beginning of time,
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and it really wanted to open a Philadelphia branch.
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Once I came into the building and realized this,
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the art started happening. That's sort of our
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origin story with the bank. And it is a project,
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we're calling it a living, breathing work of
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art, where we'd like to challenge... our ideas
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and notions of value and exchange. So the Ministry
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of Law is opening a bank branch, but there will
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be no traditional currency inside the building.
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But you will be able to come inside, you will
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be able to make a deposit and a withdrawal. and
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explore the work within. Oh, that's beautiful.
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What stage are you currently at now? Where we
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are is construction is happening. OK. And we
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are creating the artwork with a team of artists.
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Come on, come on. If anybody's listening to this
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and wants to make something, contact us. MoaPhilly
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.org. I'll be sure to put that in the show notes.
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Yeah, yeah, because it should be a group effort,
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the making of this work. So we're in the middle
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of construction, I'd say beginning to middle.
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We are making the art for the building and we
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will be opening in February of 2026. Countdown.
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Yes. Countdown. And when we open, you will be
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able to come explore this traversable living,
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breathing work of art on a timed ticket basis.
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Oh, excellent. Yes. Will the art... It'll be
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open six days a week. Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. Will
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the art be rotating at all? Will it stay permanent?
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It is designed to be evolving. Okay. So this
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is what I'm thinking. And it's all the... it's
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dependent on the more people that come through,
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it's dependent on the tourism economy being put
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into the arts and culture economy through these
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time tickets. Then we can commission more work
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and rotate, whereas at the same time, if I go
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to... Disney World, that haunted house better
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be there, right? So we will do it, we will grow
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organically. And if everything is so perfect
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and so fabulous and nobody, oh my God, nobody
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wants anything to change, then we'll buy the
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building next door and keep going. Right? Yes.
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But it is designed to be evolving and generative.
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Beautiful. Yeah. And it's a very large space,
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right? Yes, yes, it's six stories, six floors.
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It's 8 ,500 square feet. It's not huge as far
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as a cultural attraction venue, but it's perfect
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for us because we want intimacy in your experience
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when you come in. And it fits the neighborhood.
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You know, a lot of the colonial banks weren't
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necessarily super huge. Yeah, yeah the scale
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right and what is huge, right? So you'll open
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next year, but boy that was a lot some You have
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some things that are going on in between then.
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Oh, yeah because the the ministry of all ism
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and they don't It's not like it's quiet. They
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want their branch open We're helping them, they
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understand we're artists and we're, but there's
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also programming and we like to do things with
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the community on first Fridays. This first Friday,
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especially in Sugar Moms, along with a bank that
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has no money inside, we have a bar that can't
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sell alcohol. behind it at 225 Church Street.
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We can give it away though, so just so you know.
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Hey Robert, we have plans now. Yeah, do you have
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plans for Friday night? We are asking for help
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making our Damascus wallpaper, so we have the
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wallpaper all laid out and we actually need a
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lot of hands, because the ministers do not...
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allow anything printed in the bank. It all has
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to be made by hand. That's one of the branch
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rules, which is, you can imagine, very time consuming.
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Anybody is welcome to come and help us paint,
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so we'll have it all laid out. We paint together,
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we talk. If you want something from the bar,
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you can have a drink, you can play music. Last
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time we invited people to come paint with us,
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we got 30 people, and then everybody wanted to
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share their artwork, and there was a guy who
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was the poi balls with the flames. So there was
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a guy with freaking poi balls who came and lit
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them on fire with kerosene. And we're like, no,
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no, no, you gotta take it out. You gotta take
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it out. So we all went upstairs into the courtyard
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and he was sitting there literally like throwing
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the flames and going, this is what I love about
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the Ministry of Aw. And we're like, oh my God,
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please don't let him catch any of us on fire.
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So sometimes it turns into a show and tell and
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sometimes, but we really do try to encourage,
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because we get work and we can make this cultural
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attraction together, which is a hoot. It builds
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upon itself each time. That's right. Oh, that's
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so great. That's what we're trying. The building
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upon itself is very much in our ethos. And let
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it come from us being together. Just catching
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it. Yes, catching. Continuing to catch it. Yes.
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Oh, I love that. I'd love to go through your
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steps with one of your pieces of art and kind
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of marry them together. You're talking through
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your acts and maybe one of your pieces that you
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did. Yeah. Okay. So let's say... If we did, the
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one that everybody knows, 13th and Locust or
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Broad and Spring Garden. I like 13th and Locust.
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Yeah? Okay, that's good, that's good. So 13th
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and Locust is Philadelphia Muses. So starting
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that, I knew that it was a mural about, I was
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given it's supposed to be about the arts. Because
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it was when the universe, not university of the
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arts, the avenue of the arts and university of
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the arts was just going, it was at the beginning
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of all of that when we were starting, which we
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hope is continuing to this day and into the future.
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So the first step being seeking. I went out to
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the Philadelphia artistic community. So that
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was artistic, not autistic. Although sometimes
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it's a little bit of both. You can tell by your
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desk today. And what you might not know right
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off the bat at that mural, that everything in
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that mural is from Philadelphia. and it's art
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community. The figures in there are artists who
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are even the old guy with the flute and the hat
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was from an old ballet in the 1850s or 1920s.
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Check, don't check me on a date. But when you're
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first commissioned for this, they're just, they
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just say... Arts, that's what I had on that one.
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Arts. Arts. Stop. Yeah. That's it. So then I
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thought, so then I went and interviewed artists,
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I took pictures of artists, and then I ended
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up getting... costumes from the Opera House,
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from Philadelphia's costume makers. The stuff
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that you see in there were from sculptures from
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Philadelphia. Everything is from the Philadelphia
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area. Even the Gaudi -inspired building and thing
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was from a sculpture that was in a, I think it
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was in a set somewhere, but found it all in Philly
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and then... talk to people and what was it about
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the arts? What are we gonna say about it? You
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know what I mean? Am I gonna put a palette up
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there or do something corny? And the thing that
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seemed to be resonating was arts are very, today,
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they're very, very hard to define. What is art,
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right? They're very open. But if you look back
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into art history, there were... four muses, art
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muses, just for poetry. It was much more confined,
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the boundaries of what art was considered. So
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I designed the contemporary muses, so instead
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of having four for poetry, we couldn't even have
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one for literature. There was a muse for word,
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so they were all very open. The sphere, it's
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made almost like a gumball machine, and there
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are buttons on the side that you can press, so
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it's like, choose your form of expression. And
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the spheres represent the perfect art form, and
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everything in that mural is designed as a circle.
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which you'll notice because there's a compass
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on the bottom left -hand corner. So if you'll
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see the TVs are circular, which was representing
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the water is circular, the spheres come and they
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change. So it was playing with this perfect art
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form and the openness of arts in our community
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was the content of the mural. And that's what
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I was, I guess that was more of my vision was
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thinking it's really interesting. how free and
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expansive our means of expression are. Do you
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love that? I do, so good. Do you want to talk
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about who's in the mural? Oh, who's in that mural?
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Well, there's Meredith Rainey, who is still,
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he's the ballet dancer in the foreground, as
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an example. He is still in the dance community
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in Philadelphia. Now what? He's probably in his
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50s by now, right? And we were all, there was
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a dancer from Philodanko, there was, I put an
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arts administrator in, because of course there
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are artists in their own right too. To pull the
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whole community together with the art. And that
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was the seek, the seeking. It's not like I'm
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making it up in the head, oh art is pretty, art
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is good. Like we're gonna, let's explore. Who's
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in this community? Who are these artists? Robert
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has chills right now. I know, I do, I love it.
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Yeah, Robert and I are buds. Yes. We're kindreds.
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Perfect. We have a couple rapid fire questions
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for you. Okay, shoot. Okay. The Philly art scene
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in one word. Rapid fire. Wow! I've gone through
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like 10 words already in my head. I would say
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spunky. Spunky, nice. I don't know why I said
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that, but honestly, that was the first word that
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came into my head. Yes, I agree. I agree, love
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it. If you could have any art piece in your home,
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what would it be? Girl with the pearl earring.
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Oh, beautiful. Yeah, that makes me cry every
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time I see it. I don't know it, yeah. Current
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artist people are sleeping on. I would like to
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give, I have a self -serving. That's okay. Do
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it. Henry Crane, who will not return my call,
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and I want him to make something for the bank.
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Okay. So I'm like... Henry? Henry, I am bowing
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to you. I am kissing your feet. This is an incredibly
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talented young man who is undersung. He made
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two books, people I have seen, and later in the
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years, there are two comic books, and... They're
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just brilliant, and he's just a brilliant...
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young man who deserves to be recognized, Henry
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Crane. And he can draw his ass off. Tomorrow
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night, actually, on Tuesday, I am a plethora
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of art activity in the city. You guys, perfect.
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On Tuesday night in March, he has paper mache
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at the Philadelphia Public Library, totally free,
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so you can come in and make whatever you want.
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Oh, that's great. That's where you gotta shake
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them down. Henry, this is what, Henry, we were
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making the knotted grotto for Pope Francis. That
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was beautiful. Okay. What an amazing piece of
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art to bring the whole community together. Right,
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and he's going up and he's tying the knots on
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the grotto structure. I'm like, Henry, do something
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with those knots. And he is not intending to,
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but he's mimicking the architecture of the basilica.
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And it's that Grotto is casting the shadows of
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the window up on the Basilica. It was the most
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bizarre thing I've ever... That's the type of
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stuff that comes out of this show. I do want...
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Everyone should take time to look at Meg's work
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because you have... been in such incredible parts
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of Philadelphia's history already. You're lucky
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for that. Yeah. It's been amazing, amazing pieces,
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especially as we celebrate 250 years in Philadelphia.
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I know, I know. And for your bank building to
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officially open in that year. Open in that. I
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would love to be a part of the 252. It's been
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my, I've been so lucky. in Philly to be at some
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of the wonderful moments the city's experienced.
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I'd love to roll it on into 2026. We'll work
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hard to make it. And I think the bank building
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is it. That is your way to express to be a part
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of it. So, favorite beverage? This was rapid
29:57
fire, guys. Coke or a margarita. Oh. Or a beer.
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Salt on the red. Sugar. No, I am such a sugar
30:08
girl. Oh no, there is no, like there's no coolness
30:12
in my beverage. Just bring me the sugar. I started
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with Coke. So. Oh yeah. Can you tell us who you
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have with us today? I have Mary Chihuahua, who
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is producing our bank project. God bless her.
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She has worked with, we've worked together, what?
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She said 10 years today, in the past. And then...
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And then it was my first job after college. Wow.
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And then I left. And today's my first day back,
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actually. Oh, congratulations. So that's why
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I didn't want to let her go. That's why we're
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hanging together like little buddies. Yes. Yes.
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Like Velcro. But I did need her to pull this
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off. So we called Maui. Almost. Meg, what is
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going on at the bank building this weekend? Just
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our first Friday? Yes. Friday night, 530 to 830.
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Come on, come on. Paint and enjoy. Lovely. Where
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can the audience find you and the Ministry of
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All? MoaPhilly .org and Instagram at MoaPhilly,
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I think. I'll find it. I'll put it in the show
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notes. Perfect. But follow us on Instagram, because
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that's where we shout out all this stuff. That
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is what I'm supposed to say. Well Meg, thank
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you so much for your time today. Thank you. And
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sharing your art with the Philadelphia audience.
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Thank you. My pleasure. getting into this weekend,
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Robert. Lucinda. Do you hear that? Do you hear
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those? Are those flutters of bird feathers? It's
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swan lake weekend. Tweet tweet. Tchaikovsky composed
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music choreographed by Angel Correa. We are going
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to Swan Lake opening weekend. Performances through
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March 6th through the 16th. Grab your tickets.
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I was helping a friend get some extra tickets.
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and they are disappearing. The weekend shows
32:44
have only obstructed views left. It's, yeah,
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it's almost sold out, which is great. I mean,
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great for the ballet. It's going to be a packed
32:56
house, which is incredible for Philadelphia Ballet.
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And so there is going to be Thursday night, Friday
33:03
night. There's two shows on Saturdays. There's
33:06
two shows on Sundays. Is it one week or two weeks?
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two weeks. You sign up so early with like a subscription
33:14
and then... Also I need to tell you about what
33:17
happened last year with Giselle. I bought my
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tickets at the beginning of the season. I was
33:26
pregnant. I was very optimistic about how I would
33:30
be feeling post -baby. Not only did I not make
33:35
it... to the ballet, but nobody in my family
33:37
made it to the ballet because I forgot that there
33:40
was a ballet two weeks postpartum. You weren't
33:43
going to make it anyway. This weekend we will
33:48
be making it to Swan Lake. I just need to check
33:51
my ticket time. Yes. I'll also be making it to
33:56
the Museum for Art and Wood on March 7th. There's
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the opening of Katie Hudnall's The Longest Distance
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Between Two Lines, which we have talked about,
34:06
I think, week after week. Oh yes, yes. Really
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excited about that. Maybe I'll bring Petit Garçon.
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Yeah, this one's supposedly very mechanical,
34:16
as Katie was stating. So if he touches it, it's
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okay. I wouldn't go that far. Just kidding. Again,
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the Museum for Art and Wood has a quote -unquote
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petting zoo for the little ones. they're able
34:30
to pick out a block or two to occupy their hands
34:33
so that they can also experience the exhibition.
34:38
And then the print center is having an artist
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talk. This is going to be March 6 at 6 p .m.
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with Juana Estera Hernandez. So check that out.
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There is a music therapy group on Saturday the
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8th at 11 a .m. at the People's Gallery Project.
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Admission is $15. And I hope everyone enjoys
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some art this weekend and gets out and enjoys
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the city. As always, Philly has heart. And art!
35:12
I haven't seen Brutalist yet. I haven't either.
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I want to see it on the big screen. Well, no,
35:21
they just, oh. Who has three and a half hours?
35:24
Yeah, and who wants to just hang out? I know.
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I could do two popcorns in that. I could do that.
35:30
Oh, I have to. You could demolish. I would do
35:32
two popcorns and an egg. I need a bathroom break
35:34
for something like that. There is an intermission.
35:36
There is an intermission, right? Yeah, yeah.
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I need bathroom, I need refill popcorn, all of
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it.