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Brooke Lanier Fine Art feat. Brooke Lanier · philly has heART

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Hey, Lucinda. How are you today? By a thread.
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By a thread. Excellent. Okay, that's good to
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know. Good to know. It's been a whirlwind. It's
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been a whirlwind. And guys, we are recording
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this in advance. Oh, yeah. Last weekend, I think
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we are still recovering. So this weekend, what
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did we do? Nothing. Nothing. We didn't see the
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arts. We saw our... I might cut that out. We
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did nothing. I hope, as we're recording this
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in advance, I hope I managed to put in a nap.
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But there's probably going to be a lot of laundry.
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Family time. Family time. Checking back in. Making
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sure we're okay. Rehydrating. Right. Oh, definitely
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rehydrating. To the conversation. You're listening
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to Philly Has Heart podcast. In this podcast,
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we sit down with artists, gallerists, educators,
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curators and other creatives who comprise the
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Philadelphia art world to discuss upcoming performances,
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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 that it can seem daunting. Consider
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this your weekend cultural recommendation. With
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me always is my producer, Lucinda Delgerland.
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And today we have Brooke Lanier of Brooke Lanier
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Fine Art. We're so happy to have you today. Thanks
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for having me. Excellent. Excellent. So, Brooke,
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let us know a little bit about your artist's
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origin story. Okay. I grew up in southeast Minnesota,
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and I was always making things. I've been visually
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impaired my entire life, and so I've always been
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bad at sports and really uncoordinated. And so
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I was always very much into making things and
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being very tactile and reading all of the time.
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And my mom really fostered that a lot and signed
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me up for total art. state camp and like early
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college programs and stuff like that. And I just
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loved it. And I considered doing other things
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for a living. But I realized that if I go too
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long without making something, I become really
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miserable. And I'm such an all out person that
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anything that I do, I am really committed to.
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And so if I was an academic, I would just like
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throw my entire self into that and that would
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leave no room for making anything so I considered
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being a biologist but I really disliked chemistry.
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I think that I would have been a really good
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naturalist in a different era because I really
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like knowing how things are related and the story
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of the world and how things work. There's some
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art to that as well. Absolutely. And there's
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all of the illustrations that go behind it. I
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could totally see myself going someplace and
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just studying some insect and what it does forever.
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But, you know, people don't do that anymore.
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And it's all about the chemistry. And I just
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didn't want to do that. So I was like, OK, this
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art, this is what you like to do. Go do art.
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And so I did not go to a normal person university.
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I went to. The School of the Art Institute of
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Chicago. Nice. And I studied painting and art
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history, but also animation. Oh, wow, incredible.
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Yeah, but I studied, like, traditional hand -drawn
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and under -the -camera animation, which has,
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like, you know, the... more experimental things
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that have no practical application. Um, so yeah.
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Why? Because like everything's more digital now.
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Yes. Okay. Yeah. Everything is digital now. Um,
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the days of Walt Disney hand by hand is gone.
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Yes. There's a lot less market for that now.
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And, uh, yeah. And also I was making things that
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just. Yeah, it wasn't very commercial. Gotcha.
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I made a 10 -minute long documentary about the
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pygmy slow loris. So that ties in. You're bringing
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the naturalist back to your art. Yeah, but two
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weeks into my last semester at SAIC, I had...
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I got diagnosed with a massive retinal detachment
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in my right eye. And so I had to take a leave
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of absence for that semester and go have three
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surgeries and be completely out of commission
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for a couple months. And I couldn't really see
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at all or do anything except for think. And I
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didn't really have any urge to finish my film,
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but I really missed painting. And so I was like,
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oh, this is what you need to do. You need to
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go paint. You need to, like, forget about, like,
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you don't care about finishing your feature -length
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screenplay. You don't care about finishing this
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animation, but you miss your paint. Like, go
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paint. It got to bring you back to what your
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core, what you wanted to do. Yeah, yeah. So it
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was a real renewal of purpose. Excellent. Yeah.
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That's great. Wow. So that's where you were able
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to find that passion, to find that drive. At
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Brook Lanier Fine Art, you have lessons that
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you offer to then share that passion with people
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that might just be starting. Yes. I say that
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I teach anybody who wants to learn and nobody
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who doesn't. And so I teach people of all ages
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and abilities. So I teach kids as young as first.
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grade and then I teach adults that are retired
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and I teach people who have never done any sort
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of art class before but are curious or just want
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something relaxing to do but I also have people
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who come to me who are very experienced and skilled
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and just want to know, like, there's something
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wrong with this painting and I don't know what
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it is. Please help me finish this painting. How
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can I level up? Yeah, help them level up. You
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know, give them some critique. Teach them some
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more technical skills. Because I find that a
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lot of times... people aren't taught the like
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really old school nuts and bolts technical way
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of doing things anymore. And, um, when that education
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is missing, the teachers can't teach the next
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generation. So, so then, uh, Like, I learned
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a lot of that from the Facebook group Painting
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Best Practices. Oh, that's great. Which is, like,
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a bunch of cranky old people arguing about varnish.
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Which I'm like, yes, tell me more. Let's lean
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into that. Yes. Because, like, I was practicing
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what I thought was, like, the best way to do
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things. But, like, for example, somebody told
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me to use, like, all poppy seed oil in... these
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like really thin translucent oil glazes that
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I was using because it was supposed to be non
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-yellowing. Well, nobody told me that you need
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to use a certain proportion. Otherwise, like
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your paint is unstable. And also that poppy seed
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oil is semi -drying. And so you know how if you
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splatter oil on your stove. And it is sticky
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forever. Yes. It's like that if you use too much
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of it. Wow. And so I made these incredibly detailed,
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impeccably layered, like the tiniest, stupidest
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brushes that you can imagine, but enormous paintings
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with this like very painstaking technique. And
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then once I. wrapped them up in even the most
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specialized non -stick packing materials the
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paint stuck to the packing materials and it pulled
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off my paint off the painting and so like all
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of these paintings that were like the best paintings
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i'd ever made just got destroyed and so i was
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like oh no i have to learn how to do this better
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right and so i became such a nerd about learning
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like All of the materials and like the code names
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of all the pigments and what was lightfast and
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what would delaminate and like crack. I'm going
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to interject something. Yeah. That sounds like
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chemistry. Yeah. Right. Oh, that's so right.
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So true. It comes full circle. I know. It is,
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but not with the like. molecular math side of
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it like it totally is it totally is but it's
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also like on the level of well if you're making
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a brick wall and you put too much mortar in between
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the bricks it's going to turn to mush which is
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putting too much oil in your paint yeah um and
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that is the level of chemistry As opposed to
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like, these are covalent bonds and we need these
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many electrons to make our paint nice. And it's
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like, no, I don't want to know about that. But
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I do know that if you use zinc in your paint
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for your white paint, that it will crack. And
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it will delaminate. So if you see these paintings
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in museums that have a lot of white in them and
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they are just like totally spider webbed with
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cracks, it's because there's a zinc white in
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them. Interesting. Yeah. And Brooke, you didn't
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want to become an academic, but you're teaching
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everyone, it seems. I love teaching. Which is
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great. No, I didn't want to become a publisher
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parish. academic nice i love teaching it is like
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one of my favorite things and i think one of
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the best things about art is that it's all about
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sharing and it's a visual communication and i
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love that any time that you experience an artwork
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even if the person who made it has been dead
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for hundreds of years, you're having a conversation
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with them. Right. It's one -sided, but, you know,
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they're telling you, hey, this was important
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to me, or I thought this was really interesting,
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or at least somebody paid me to think this was
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interesting. Right. Yeah, and, like, so even...
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something that's incredibly prosaic if it's well
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made to me it makes me look at it closer because
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i'm like okay well somebody spent a significant
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amount of time out of their life to make this
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therefore they thought it was interesting what
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about it did they think was interesting i should
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look at this more closely love to kind of dive
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more into that because a lot of our audience
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might be trying to develop a collection or are
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budget conscious and what can what advice can
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you help give that audience member oh that the
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best art to collect is the art that you will
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enjoy and that That way, if it appreciates in
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value and becomes worth a ton of money, great.
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You have something that you love to look at and
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it's super enjoyable to you and it's worth a
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bunch of money. Right. But you're enjoying it.
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And if not, it's something that makes you happy
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or that you find intriguing. And I think that
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it's really valuable to support up and coming
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artists and to. Like, for instance, go to Philadelphia
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Open Studio Tours and get to know the artists
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in person and see how they make things. Or there's
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a lot of really awesome co -op galleries that
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are artist -run spaces. And there are several
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local organizations that help emerging artists,
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like InLiquid and the Center for Emerging Visual
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Artists and the Da Vinci Art Alliance. They provide
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these exhibition opportunities, but also they
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often have online databases where you can see
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art from people who are making. Things with all
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different media and in the Philadelphia area.
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And you can look up their websites or their social
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media. And, you know, you can always reach out
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to them individually as well and be like, hey,
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I like what you make. Do you sell what you make?
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Can I go to your studio or, you know? Yeah, start
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a conversation. Yeah, there's always an opportunity
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to meet an artist. Yeah, and it's always great
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to support galleries, whether they're members
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-run places or commercial spaces. And small works
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are a good way to get started, but also works
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on paper and prints are often quite affordable.
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And sometimes artists make... you know, studies
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of things. Like I know that sometimes I'll test
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out ideas by making a bunch of watercolors or
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plein air paintings, or I like to have things
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that are affordable for people. So I make a bunch
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of little four by four inch oil paintings on
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panel that, you know, they're two inches deep,
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so they're freestanding. You can put them on
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a bookshelf or on your desk. And so people are
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like, oh. I ran out of wall space and I'm like,
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well, I got you. Here's a little guy. Yeah. Here's
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a little guy. And it only costs $120. And so
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that's also a good gift giving, uh, thing. Yeah.
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So like. A lot of artists work in multiple sizes
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or like, you know, even more established artists,
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sometimes they'll have something that's in the
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back of their studio that's 15 years old and
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it has nothing to do with what they're making
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now. And so as a result, they're not showing
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it anywhere, but it's a perfectly nice painting.
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And so, you know, sometimes you might find that.
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But a lot of times people are willing to work
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with you, and a lot of people will offer payments
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and installments, which is something that doesn't
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always occur to collectors or occur to ask. you
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know, artists and galleries, we want to sell
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the work. And we want to have it in people's
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homes and businesses. And I would so much rather
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have something being enjoyed out in the world
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than in my storage. And that it's kind of more
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meaningful to me in a way if people buy things
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in... uh installments because that tells me they
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really really want it yeah and they took the
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time yeah they took the time and also it is kind
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of a commitment you can allocate modest amounts
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of money and like you know rather than going
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out for lunch you know, put away that little
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bit of money towards buying a small piece of
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art or, um, like a G clay print, a limited edition
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reproduction, or like get a nice etching or a
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screen print or a lithograph. Um, yeah, there's,
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there's places like, um, second state press.
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Um, and, uh, what is the other one? Oh, there's
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another print place that I am. Oh, BYO print.
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Oh, excellent. OK. There are two print studios
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in Philly that are co -ops and you can you can
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like pay for a membership to make things there.
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But also you can collect the art that the artists
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make there and you can collect ceramics or fiber
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arts and often media that people think of as
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craft based, which is dumb. Like the direct the
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division between. art and craft is such a dumb
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thing but um because of that like stupid bias
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people often price things in quote -unquote craft
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media lower so um you can buy ceramics for a
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lot cheaper often than you can buy a painting
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right um and you can buy beautiful art for like
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very affordable and sometimes people have studio
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sales or there's art for the cash poor that in
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liquid puts on and you know there's there's all
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sorts of stuff there's so many ways in so many
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ways and I try to make my art affordable at a
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variety of different price points so I start
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at about a hundred dollars and go up to around
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ten thousand dollars and I don't like the idea
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that art is only something that you should be
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able to have if you have a bazillion dollars.
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Art should be for everybody. You should be able
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to have nice things if you don't have a ton of
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money. And, yeah, beauty is for everyone. That's
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great, Brooke. Love that. Love it. Brooke, so
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you have an anniversary party coming up. Can
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you tell us a little bit about that? I do. Nice.
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How old are you? Brooke Lanier Fine Art. is celebrating
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its sixth anniversary. And it's not really its
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sixth anniversary. It's its sixth anniversary
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in its current location at 820 South 4th Street.
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But I actually started the business in 2012.
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in the building that used to house the 12th street
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gym oh my gosh yeah yeah yeah so i was there
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for six years and um then that whole fiasco happened
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yes so yeah what a complete nightmare oh yeah
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and but i am in my current location and i love
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the neighborhood and i love being part of a community
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there and I have the doors open to the public
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from 11 to 5 Fridays and Saturdays so anybody
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can come visit and I yeah so I really like welcoming
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the community in and I'm trying to foster more
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connections among my neighbors especially. Hey,
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hey. Hey, hey. I'm her neighbor. Yeah. So I have
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a low -stakes book club that I run first and
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third Fridays of the month at 5 o 'clock, and
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we only read short things. And, you know, I'm
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doing all these things to try to bring people
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together. It was really cool when I hosted the
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fifth anniversary last year because it brought
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together all these people from different aspects
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of my life. Oh, wow. And it was so great. It
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was like people I knew from grad school and from
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teaching at Tyler. And people who I knew from,
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like, being a nanny when I was first out of grad
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school and who became my collectors and, like,
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all of their friends became my collectors. And
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they came and, like. The doctor who did my retinal
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detachment surgery. Oh my gosh, you're bringing
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them all together. This is your life. Yes. Yeah,
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he relocated to Philly and he was like, you're
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still here and I'm going to come to your party.
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So he came and people who have collected my art
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for years and just... People who I've met through
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the tall ship community and the historic ship
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community because I've done a lot of volunteering
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and like. work getting to know about the gazella
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and the historic ships of pins landing and also
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the ss united states and so like all of my historic
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ship nerds came and it's like oh all of these
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people and um i've met this wonderful community
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of um blind and visually impaired people through
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Vision Link, which is a community that provides
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services for people dealing with vision loss.
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And so I've made a series of tactile ceramics
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that are touchable companion pieces for my paintings.
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So they're the same subject matter. And I've
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had... Blind and low vision people come as studio
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visitors and I will tell them, okay, this is
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what you're touching. This is what it is. A place
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to actually be able to touch the art. Yes, and
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everybody secretly wants to touch the art. Always,
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always. Especially my art because a lot of the
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paintings are very textured and very physical.
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And that's also why you need to go see art in
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person is because it's so lumpy that it casts
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its own shadows. And you can't take good pictures
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of it. Even if, like, if you light it evenly,
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it flattens it. And if you light it with... Shadows,
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it catches shine funny, and it's just dumb. So
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you just need to see the art. But if you want
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to touch the art, you're allowed. You just need
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to wash your hands and be gentle. But a lot of
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the blind and low vision people who came, people
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don't realize that blindness is a spectrum. Most
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people who are blind are not blackout blind.
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They might have a limited field of vision or
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they have some perception of light or can see
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large, high -contrast shapes. So I hung up art
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that had high -contrast, large shapes and corresponded
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to the sculptures that we're touching that were
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mostly... Made in the studios at the Clay Studio
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and the Fleischer Art Memorial, which are also
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two great community art resources that teach
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classes but also have galleries, which are super
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awesome. You should check those out too, beginning
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collectors. I've hosted studio visits for visually
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impaired people where I specifically set things
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up. so that they're around a table and they have
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something that they can touch while I tell them
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what they're looking at or what they're touching.
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and I'll tell them about the history of the ship
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and why I'm painting it, and that those bumpy
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things are rivets, and that is how you hold two
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pieces of metal together if they're overlapping.
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But if they're just butted up next to each other,
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you have that... raised linear part which is
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a weld and that those little circles are portholes
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and that is the window of the ship and that the
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windows on the upper decks are bigger than the
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windows on the lower decks and that because this
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ship is so enormous that that looks visually
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balanced But also it's possibly a classist thing
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that the people in the crappier places have the
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littler windows. Yes. You're really bringing
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the art alive for everyone. Yeah. Going back
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to your anniversary party. Yes. It's at your
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studio, correct? Yes. And what day? It is Saturday,
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April 19th. Great. Great. Saturday, April 19th.
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So Brooke, we're going to move into our rapid
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fire question segment. Oh boy. Yeah. So if you
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could describe the Philly art scene in one word,
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what would it be? Vibrant. Excellent. And if
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you could have any piece of art in your home,
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what would it be? If I had a gigantic home, I
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would steal Monet's Water Lilies 1914 to 1926
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from the MoMA. Wow, that's a beautiful one. Yes.
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Beautiful. I've sat in front of it for an entire
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hour straight and kept finding new things and
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looking up at different angles and peeping up
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close and from afar. just learning so many things
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about the way that it's made just from looking
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at it and just seeing the pile of decisions and
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changes that you make over the course of 12 years.
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And also, like, I really relate to that because
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sometimes I will. put a painting in a naughty
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corner. I'm like, I don't know what to do with
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you. You sit in the corner and think about what
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you did, not like bring it out after like a year
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or two and work on it and then be like, oh, you're
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not ready for the world. You make me sick. So
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I kind of suspect that maybe he had that relationship
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with that painting, but maybe not. Also, I kind
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of wonder about like if... In that 12 years,
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his vision changed a lot because Monet had cataracts,
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and I think he had other degenerative vision
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issues. And so I wonder if that is part of the
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movement into abstraction that you see into that
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piece that becomes much more pronounced in his
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later work. Wow. But it's so beautiful and poetic
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and I could just look at it forever. Oh my gosh,
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love it. Yeah, and that's the type of art that
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you want in your house. Oh, definitely. Yeah.
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Definitely. But if I had the size of house that
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I have now, which is just a normal person apartment,
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I would have Jamie Wyeth's The Dog and the Great
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White Shark Jaw. Ooh. It always makes me laugh
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because it is this like... little bug -eyed,
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chunky chihuahua that is just... looking slightly
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bewildered on a piece of wicker furniture underneath
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a great white shark jaw mounted on the wall behind
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it. And it's just hilarious, but it's also really
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beautifully painted and has just a wonderful
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sense of life. So it's like a very pretty painting,
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but it's also ridiculous. Nice conversation piece.
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Yeah. And who doesn't love a painting with a
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dog in it? Yes. Yeah. And who doesn't love a
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nice landscape? So either. Yeah. So either case,
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I guess that is like a combination of highbrow
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and basic. We'll link to those in the show notes.
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And so what current artists are people sleeping
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on? Oh, everybody should know about Scott Vredelis.
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His paintings are really subtle and meditative
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and impeccably crafted. but they kind of die
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in documentation on the internet because they
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are very subtle, and they rely on a sense of
29:49
scale. They're more body -sized, and they're
29:53
very slow -read art, and they're color -field
29:59
paintings that are very much about the careful
30:05
mark -making and applying of paint. the very
30:10
minute changes in color. And yeah, they're quite
30:16
beautiful and poetic, and I hope that he gets
30:20
his work out into the world more. Awesome. Yeah.
30:24
Awesome. What is your favorite beverage? I don't
30:28
know that it's my favorite beverage by taste,
30:31
but I love that my husband makes me coffee every
30:36
single morning. And it is just so sweet. And
30:41
he gets up before I do and makes the coffee.
30:45
And then he gets me up when the coffee is ready.
30:48
And that is just such a wonderful way to start
30:52
the day and such a sweet man. Oh, kindness. Yeah.
30:55
So that is the best beverage. Brooke, where can
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our audience find you? You can find me in my
31:05
studio slash gallery. Or you can find me at brooklynearfineart
31:11
.com or on Instagram at brooklynearfineart and
31:18
also on Facebook. Excellent. Yeah. Well, thank
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you so much for joining us today. Yeah, thank
31:23
you for having me. This was really fun. Excellent.
31:39
What a beautiful conversation. She's great. She's
31:43
amazing. So full of amazing information. Also,
31:47
she advised us on how to best set up our microphones
31:50
in our podcast studio. Yes, she did. We needed
31:53
that. Yeah, and since then, it's been an upgrade.
31:57
So this weekend, lots of openings. The Da Vinci
32:01
Art Alliance has an opening on tomorrow, Thursday.
32:06
The third, Bookends, a solo exhibition by Lucy
32:10
Shakin. American Dissonance, the spring member
32:14
invitational. And I love this title. I love myself
32:18
when I am laughing. Ellipses. And then again,
32:22
when I'm looking mean and impressive. A solo
32:25
exhibition by Tuff Gossamer. Oh, wow. And then
32:29
First Friday in Old City is going to be great.
32:32
I think it's going to be really crowded because
32:34
I anticipate it being warm, and that brings out
32:37
the people. People wanting it out, too. Specifically,
32:40
check out Friends of the Pod at Jane Gallery,
32:44
Muse Gallery, Ministry of Awe, and the Museum
32:47
for Art and Wood. Lastly, Saturday night, April
32:52
4th from 6 to 9, How Has Art Changed Your Life?
32:55
An open mic night at the People's Gallery Project
32:58
in Washington Square West. So we've planned your
33:02
weekend for you. 100%. I will also have a jam
33:06
-packed weekend. I'm starting Friday night in
33:10
New York City with Kylie Minogue. Amazing concert.
33:14
Okay, wait. Cannot wait. Question. Yes. What
33:17
single do you most hope she performs? Oh my gosh,
33:21
that is so hard. I mean, I need to hear Locomotion.
33:26
I just, it brings me so much joy. And I think
33:30
it'll happen. She is going to put on an amazing
33:34
show, and it's going to be an incredible evening.
33:38
We're training back to Philadelphia to go to
33:42
the Little Smiles Gala. This year it's being
33:46
held at the... Crystal T. Root, Little Smiles,
33:51
Big Impact is a volunteer 501c3 children's charity.
33:56
And they help heal hearts and create little smiles,
34:01
providing gifts and fun activities for children
34:04
impacted by serious illness and tragedy and trauma.
34:08
So if anyone has availability Sunday night and
34:11
wants to dress up and make a big impact on little
34:15
kids, we'd love to see you there. It's a really
34:18
great time. They create this red carpet runway
34:23
for all the kids. A step and repeat. Yes. And
34:28
they make it their own show. Incredible to see
34:34
how they're going through so much at once and
34:38
get to have kind of the night off and get treated
34:42
like a star. So it's a great event. And then
34:46
as we look to the future. The young friends of
34:50
the Philadelphia Ballet are going to be hosting,
34:54
once again, their brunch at the bar. This is
34:57
a bar class with two of the principal dancers
35:02
at the Philadelphia Ballet. This will be an 11
35:06
o 'clock class on that Sunday, followed by a
35:09
little boozy brunch afterwards. Okay, tell us
35:12
again which Sunday it is. This is going to be
35:14
Sunday, April 27th. Robert, I'm not doing a bar
35:17
class. It's so easy. I mean, I'll do berries,
35:21
but I'm not doing bar. Right, exactly. What is
35:23
this nonsense, okay? You're going to do less
35:26
work, and there's a sweet treat at the end. You're
35:31
going to do fine. It's going to be beautiful.
35:33
Did you do it? Yes. When was the last time you
35:36
did it? A bar class? In the fall. Oh. I want
35:40
to say. Okay. Yeah, it wasn't too bad. It wasn't
35:43
too bad. For our listeners, we have a promo code
35:46
PBYoungFriend. So if you go to the Philadelphia
35:52
Ballet website and sign up for the brunch at
35:56
the bar, you can use P as in Paul. Be as a boy.
36:01
Guys, I'm going to put this in the show notes.
36:03
Oh, perfect. Okay, even better. The promo code
36:05
gets you young friend ticket pricing. So for
36:09
a solo ticket, it's $50. If you bring a friend
36:12
and there's two of you, it's $90. And then if
36:14
you bring four guests total, it's $150. So you
36:18
get extra discounts the more people you bring
36:21
to the dance class. General admission starts
36:24
at $75 a person. Good savings. Thanks everyone.
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And as always, Philly has heart. And art.