1 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:01,633 (uplifting music) 2 00:00:03,292 --> 00:00:04,475 - [Announcer] This special presentation 3 00:00:04,499 --> 00:00:07,232 was produced in high definition by WEDU, 4 00:00:07,499 --> 00:00:09,632 Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota. 5 00:00:10,499 --> 00:00:12,768 - [Dalia] Major funding for WEDU Arts Plus 6 00:00:12,792 --> 00:00:15,768 is provided through The Greater Cincinnati Foundation 7 00:00:15,792 --> 00:00:18,435 by an arts-loving donor who encourages others 8 00:00:18,459 --> 00:00:20,792 to support your PBS station, WEDU. 9 00:00:22,709 --> 00:00:25,042 In this edition of WEDU Arts Plus, 10 00:00:25,875 --> 00:00:28,542 a Tampa musician builds custom guitars. 11 00:00:29,001 --> 00:00:30,435 - [Woody] But they're made of different woods 12 00:00:30,459 --> 00:00:34,259 and so the tones that come from them are very different. 13 00:00:34,875 --> 00:00:35,768 - [Dalia] A work of art. 14 00:00:35,792 --> 00:00:38,475 - [James] Dr. Grohmann's intention in giving the collection 15 00:00:38,499 --> 00:00:40,475 to the School of Engineering was 16 00:00:40,499 --> 00:00:42,102 he thought that students of engineering 17 00:00:42,126 --> 00:00:43,394 and these very technical students 18 00:00:43,418 --> 00:00:46,475 should be confronted with art on a daily basis. 19 00:00:46,499 --> 00:00:48,475 - [Dalia] Welding against the odds. 20 00:00:48,499 --> 00:00:50,893 - I can either just lay down and give up 21 00:00:50,917 --> 00:00:51,851 or I can just keep moving, 22 00:00:51,875 --> 00:00:54,559 and I've decided that I wanna keep moving. 23 00:00:54,583 --> 00:00:56,559 - [Dalia] And designing the runway. 24 00:00:56,583 --> 00:00:58,018 - [Voszi] I do hats, jewelry, jackets. 25 00:00:58,042 --> 00:01:00,475 One of my favorite things to do are jackets. 26 00:01:00,499 --> 00:01:03,499 - It's all coming up next on WEDU Arts Plus. 27 00:01:05,376 --> 00:01:06,376 (upbeat music) 28 00:01:21,667 --> 00:01:25,134 Hello, I'm Dalia Colon, and this is WEDU Arts Plus. 29 00:01:27,084 --> 00:01:28,060 Every musician is unique. 30 00:01:28,084 --> 00:01:31,084 So why shouldn't every instrument be unique? 31 00:01:31,292 --> 00:01:33,768 In this first segment, let's meet a Tampa man 32 00:01:33,792 --> 00:01:36,659 who goes by the nickname Wood Woodcasters. 33 00:01:36,834 --> 00:01:38,685 With the help of some craftsmen and skills 34 00:01:38,709 --> 00:01:42,435 he still remembers from his high school wood shop class, 35 00:01:42,459 --> 00:01:45,126 his custom guitars are striking a chord 36 00:01:45,251 --> 00:01:48,518 with musicians in search of something different. 37 00:01:50,042 --> 00:01:51,042 (blues music) 38 00:01:56,292 --> 00:01:58,475 - I'm Woody Woodcasters and I build 39 00:01:58,499 --> 00:02:02,299 custom exotic wood guitars and basses for fun and profit 40 00:02:02,959 --> 00:02:03,851 and probably for some people 41 00:02:03,875 --> 00:02:07,742 that have a whole lot more money than they ought to have. 42 00:02:11,875 --> 00:02:13,608 They are electric guitars. 43 00:02:13,709 --> 00:02:16,102 We can build acoustic guitars as well. 44 00:02:16,126 --> 00:02:19,143 We've built a couple of solid body acoustics, 45 00:02:19,167 --> 00:02:20,435 but they're made of different woods 46 00:02:20,459 --> 00:02:24,102 and so the tones that come from them are very different 47 00:02:24,126 --> 00:02:27,659 because the woods resonate at different frequencies. 48 00:02:30,875 --> 00:02:35,675 Alright, so you have things like this guitar right here, 49 00:02:35,742 --> 00:02:36,768 number 13. 50 00:02:36,792 --> 00:02:40,125 You have bloodwood, bleached beech, flamed maple, 51 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:42,475 and wenge going on. 52 00:02:42,499 --> 00:02:46,632 The pickups are made of bloodwood and California olive wood. 53 00:02:47,917 --> 00:02:50,250 Ambrosia maple for the fret board. 54 00:02:50,499 --> 00:02:51,977 The neck is purple, oh wait, 55 00:02:52,001 --> 00:02:54,685 the whole back of this guitar is completely different. 56 00:02:54,709 --> 00:02:57,976 Purple heart and mahogany where we had bloodwood 57 00:02:58,875 --> 00:03:00,060 and bleached beech. 58 00:03:00,084 --> 00:03:02,484 How do you do that? Stack the wood. 59 00:03:09,917 --> 00:03:13,650 I started taking piano lessons back in the early 1960s. 60 00:03:14,875 --> 00:03:17,394 My parents thought I needed to be well-rounded, 61 00:03:17,418 --> 00:03:20,818 but no, I play about 14 different instruments now. 62 00:03:22,499 --> 00:03:25,499 I decided to start building guitars in 2005. 63 00:03:27,126 --> 00:03:29,810 Well, I had a room full of them to begin with, 64 00:03:29,834 --> 00:03:33,367 and so, I'm sitting up in the guitar room, I'm like, 65 00:03:34,376 --> 00:03:37,185 "There's all this plastic on these guitars. 66 00:03:37,209 --> 00:03:39,209 "What if all the plastic parts 67 00:03:40,126 --> 00:03:42,259 "were exotic hardwoods instead." 68 00:03:42,418 --> 00:03:45,818 So we built a couple and the tones were very rich, 69 00:03:47,499 --> 00:03:50,232 and we just didn't look back after that. 70 00:03:50,499 --> 00:03:51,966 One, two, three, four. 71 00:03:53,750 --> 00:03:54,750 (blues music) 72 00:04:02,334 --> 00:04:06,134 We actually formed a band called Woody and the Woodtones 73 00:04:06,376 --> 00:04:08,176 as a blatant marketing tool 74 00:04:09,499 --> 00:04:13,432 to go out and play blues cover songs and play the guitars, 75 00:04:16,499 --> 00:04:19,966 so people could see them and hear them being played 76 00:04:20,001 --> 00:04:21,201 in a live setting. 77 00:04:22,167 --> 00:04:25,300 And didn't take very long, members of the band 78 00:04:25,875 --> 00:04:28,185 started actually writing originals 79 00:04:28,209 --> 00:04:29,352 and so they were really good, 80 00:04:29,376 --> 00:04:32,643 so we put together a CD and we recorded it live. 81 00:04:33,542 --> 00:04:36,942 People started coming up and asking who was Woody. 82 00:04:37,209 --> 00:04:40,609 Since I was the one that was sort of the spokesman 83 00:04:40,959 --> 00:04:42,977 and the one building the instruments, 84 00:04:43,001 --> 00:04:45,601 I wound up becoming Woody Woodcasters. 85 00:04:46,667 --> 00:04:47,667 (upbeat music) 86 00:05:01,499 --> 00:05:02,559 Well, a couple of friends of mine 87 00:05:02,583 --> 00:05:05,850 were involved in the beginning, Craig and Randy. 88 00:05:06,667 --> 00:05:10,000 They had other jobs and I was pretty much retired 89 00:05:11,499 --> 00:05:14,299 from the insurance company at that point. 90 00:05:15,292 --> 00:05:16,359 So I kept going. 91 00:05:17,792 --> 00:05:20,792 I started going online and I started finding 92 00:05:22,959 --> 00:05:24,826 some fine American craftsmen 93 00:05:26,499 --> 00:05:29,032 that actually did some of this stuff. 94 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:31,833 I like to design it. 95 00:05:32,834 --> 00:05:35,101 I'll get an instrument in my head 96 00:05:36,499 --> 00:05:39,475 and I can actually visualize what it's gonna look like 97 00:05:39,499 --> 00:05:43,232 when it's finished, before even the first piece of wood 98 00:05:44,792 --> 00:05:45,792 is ordered. 99 00:05:46,251 --> 00:05:49,851 So I'll call up, for example, someone building a body 100 00:05:50,418 --> 00:05:52,018 like the one over there, 101 00:05:52,499 --> 00:05:55,499 "I'd like a checker board body, Strat style, 102 00:05:58,834 --> 00:05:59,967 "ash and walnut." 103 00:06:00,709 --> 00:06:03,310 And they'll build the rectangular piece. 104 00:06:03,334 --> 00:06:06,734 They'll cut the body out of that, they'll form it, 105 00:06:06,792 --> 00:06:09,325 and send me that body part, raw wood. 106 00:06:12,875 --> 00:06:14,394 We then have to do the final sanding, 107 00:06:14,418 --> 00:06:16,394 put the nitrocellulose finish on it, 108 00:06:16,418 --> 00:06:20,351 decide on what wood the pickups are gonna be wound out of, 109 00:06:20,499 --> 00:06:22,893 what wire it's gonna be wound out of. 110 00:06:22,917 --> 00:06:25,184 Pickups are the electronic things 111 00:06:26,209 --> 00:06:28,342 that pickup the string vibration 112 00:06:29,499 --> 00:06:33,432 that make the electric signal that goes to your amplifier. 113 00:06:34,334 --> 00:06:35,768 If it's gonna have cavity covers 114 00:06:35,792 --> 00:06:37,435 or pick guards or anything like that, 115 00:06:37,459 --> 00:06:41,059 I have to then go get the wood and build those parts. 116 00:06:41,418 --> 00:06:44,018 Our finish guy is up in Wesley Chapel. 117 00:06:44,418 --> 00:06:46,018 He's a blueberry farmer. 118 00:06:46,499 --> 00:06:47,102 (laughs) 119 00:06:47,126 --> 00:06:50,726 But the rest of the year, he does finish work for us. 120 00:06:52,499 --> 00:06:53,499 (blues music) 121 00:06:56,334 --> 00:06:57,601 You can walk into any Sam Ash, 122 00:06:57,625 --> 00:07:01,492 you can walk into any Guitar Center, any place like that, 123 00:07:01,625 --> 00:07:04,625 all these places have the same exact guitars 124 00:07:05,499 --> 00:07:07,366 from the same manufacturers. 125 00:07:07,583 --> 00:07:11,516 A guitar that you can buy for $200 that was built in China 126 00:07:12,625 --> 00:07:15,292 is built out of basswood and pot metal, 127 00:07:16,499 --> 00:07:19,366 and it's fine for your child starting out. 128 00:07:22,583 --> 00:07:23,768 It's a good beginning instrument. 129 00:07:23,792 --> 00:07:25,792 But then, when you get better, 130 00:07:27,499 --> 00:07:29,832 you decide that you want something 131 00:07:31,792 --> 00:07:34,192 that is going to be your signature. 132 00:07:37,499 --> 00:07:41,432 You want a guitar that nobody else has, down to the cases. 133 00:07:42,875 --> 00:07:44,675 Our cases are custom built. 134 00:07:47,376 --> 00:07:49,909 If you can dream it, we can build it. 135 00:07:57,834 --> 00:08:00,301 I forgot how nice this guitar plays. 136 00:08:03,592 --> 00:08:08,659 - To see more, follow realwoodywoodcasters on Instagram. 137 00:08:10,967 --> 00:08:13,400 On the Milwaukee School of Engineering campus, 138 00:08:13,459 --> 00:08:15,268 there's the Grohmann Museum. 139 00:08:15,292 --> 00:08:19,092 Its entire theme is inspired by the idea of man at work. 140 00:08:20,499 --> 00:08:22,227 Let's take a look at an exhibition 141 00:08:22,251 --> 00:08:26,051 where artists collaborated to depict human productivity. 142 00:08:28,459 --> 00:08:29,592 (uplifting music) 143 00:08:31,834 --> 00:08:35,101 - We like to say science without art is nothing. 144 00:08:35,251 --> 00:08:36,726 Not so much to provide culture, 145 00:08:36,750 --> 00:08:39,617 but just to provide a broader view of art. 146 00:08:42,126 --> 00:08:45,102 The Grohmann Museum, it was the product of a gift 147 00:08:45,126 --> 00:08:46,475 to the Milwaukee School of Engineering 148 00:08:46,499 --> 00:08:49,566 of an art collection by Dr. Eckhart Grohmann. 149 00:08:51,209 --> 00:08:53,935 The collection all dealt with the art of industry. 150 00:08:53,959 --> 00:08:55,518 Dr. Grohmann was an aluminum founder. 151 00:08:55,542 --> 00:08:57,518 He ran a foundry on the south side of Milwaukee. 152 00:08:57,542 --> 00:09:00,475 That's why he had an affinity to collecting art 153 00:09:00,499 --> 00:09:02,810 and depictions of labor and depictions of industry. 154 00:09:02,834 --> 00:09:05,167 That's where the collection began. 155 00:09:06,499 --> 00:09:08,559 We're absolutely unique in that the collection 156 00:09:08,583 --> 00:09:10,352 all deals with human industry. 157 00:09:10,376 --> 00:09:12,475 It's the art of industry, the art of labor, 158 00:09:12,499 --> 00:09:13,559 the art of human achievement. 159 00:09:13,583 --> 00:09:15,726 The way the collection's organized in the museum 160 00:09:15,750 --> 00:09:16,768 is it's broken out thematically. 161 00:09:16,792 --> 00:09:19,475 On the first floor, we have iron and steel production 162 00:09:19,499 --> 00:09:21,559 and all things related to heavy industry. 163 00:09:21,583 --> 00:09:23,935 On the second floor, we have construction and agriculture, 164 00:09:23,959 --> 00:09:27,426 so the more rural motifs and those sorts of themes. 165 00:09:27,499 --> 00:09:28,810 And on the third floor, it's craftsmen 166 00:09:28,834 --> 00:09:30,352 and intellectual trades, so that's a little more 167 00:09:30,376 --> 00:09:33,810 of a catch-all and includes some of the oldest pieces 168 00:09:33,834 --> 00:09:35,034 in the collection. 169 00:09:36,792 --> 00:09:39,310 There's a number of site specific art works 170 00:09:39,334 --> 00:09:40,893 included in the building design. 171 00:09:40,917 --> 00:09:44,250 They include the mosaic floor on which you enter. 172 00:09:44,667 --> 00:09:48,134 You look directly up and you see our ceiling mural. 173 00:09:49,251 --> 00:09:50,143 The rooftop sculpture garden, 174 00:09:50,167 --> 00:09:53,227 it's a green roof that includes 18 sculptures 175 00:09:53,251 --> 00:09:54,143 that were all reproduced. 176 00:09:54,167 --> 00:09:55,559 They're site specific pieces 177 00:09:55,583 --> 00:09:57,475 based on pieces in the permanent collection, 178 00:09:57,499 --> 00:09:58,475 so they were reproduced in life size 179 00:09:58,499 --> 00:10:01,832 and larger than life size for our rooftop garden. 180 00:10:03,917 --> 00:10:06,475 Dr. Grohmann's intention in giving the collection 181 00:10:06,499 --> 00:10:07,935 to the School of Engineering 182 00:10:07,959 --> 00:10:09,977 was he thought that students of engineering 183 00:10:10,001 --> 00:10:11,227 and these very technical students 184 00:10:11,251 --> 00:10:14,451 should be confronted with art on a daily basis. 185 00:10:16,251 --> 00:10:18,810 We host a number of feature exhibitions every year. 186 00:10:18,834 --> 00:10:20,268 The current exhibition, Artists at Work, 187 00:10:20,292 --> 00:10:22,475 is a wonderful collaboration that we put together 188 00:10:22,499 --> 00:10:24,632 with The Cedarburg Artists Guild 189 00:10:24,917 --> 00:10:28,250 and a great opportunity to showcase local talent. 190 00:10:28,583 --> 00:10:32,383 This exhibition came about as a result of a conversation 191 00:10:32,499 --> 00:10:33,475 I had with Susan Steinhafel. 192 00:10:33,499 --> 00:10:35,810 Susan is the director of the Cedarburg Artists Guild. 193 00:10:35,834 --> 00:10:38,685 So we discussed our theme, that is the theme of industry, 194 00:10:38,709 --> 00:10:42,642 the theme of work, and kind of presented it as a challenge 195 00:10:42,917 --> 00:10:44,893 to the guild to create new pieces 196 00:10:44,917 --> 00:10:46,475 surrounding this theme of industry, 197 00:10:46,499 --> 00:10:48,766 this theme of human productivity. 198 00:10:49,001 --> 00:10:51,801 And they readily accepted that challenge. 199 00:10:55,750 --> 00:10:58,617 There are 42 works by 14 featured artists. 200 00:10:59,001 --> 00:11:02,268 The collection is laid out by artists, actually. 201 00:11:02,499 --> 00:11:03,893 We have them arranged on the wall 202 00:11:03,917 --> 00:11:07,435 with their pieces as companion pieces to one another. 203 00:11:07,459 --> 00:11:09,310 But we also laid it out thematically, 204 00:11:09,334 --> 00:11:11,476 so we looked for natural connections 205 00:11:11,500 --> 00:11:13,233 between the artists' work. 206 00:11:17,499 --> 00:11:19,432 We have paintings, of course. 207 00:11:19,709 --> 00:11:22,935 We have works on paper, including prints and photographs, 208 00:11:22,959 --> 00:11:26,892 and a wide variety in interpreting the theme of industry. 209 00:11:28,625 --> 00:11:30,143 Some of the artists go at it straight 210 00:11:30,167 --> 00:11:32,559 and just document industry in a snapshot, 211 00:11:32,583 --> 00:11:35,183 in more of a straightforward approach. 212 00:11:35,459 --> 00:11:36,476 Others go at it a little differently, 213 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:39,018 think about the philosophy, the psychology behind work, 214 00:11:39,042 --> 00:11:42,442 what work means to us, what work means to culture. 215 00:11:46,750 --> 00:11:48,102 A little bit about Paul Yank's work, 216 00:11:48,126 --> 00:11:51,475 Paul is very revered by The Cedarburg Artists Guild. 217 00:11:51,499 --> 00:11:52,559 They all very much look up to him 218 00:11:52,583 --> 00:11:54,810 because he is a master printmaker, 219 00:11:54,834 --> 00:11:55,810 and so, a lot of the printmakers 220 00:11:55,834 --> 00:11:57,185 that are included in the exhibition 221 00:11:57,209 --> 00:12:00,643 have taken their learning and their tutelage from Paul. 222 00:12:00,667 --> 00:12:02,534 - And you've got it on here. 223 00:12:02,667 --> 00:12:04,475 We work with transparent inks. 224 00:12:04,499 --> 00:12:07,966 We leave the textures that are behind come through. 225 00:12:09,251 --> 00:12:12,051 We don't wanna lose all the things in it. 226 00:12:14,583 --> 00:12:17,716 It's monoprint slash pochoir, means stenciled, 227 00:12:20,959 --> 00:12:23,685 and that way we can lay color over color, 228 00:12:23,709 --> 00:12:25,352 and with the transparencies, 229 00:12:25,376 --> 00:12:28,043 you can get some really beautiful tones 230 00:12:29,126 --> 00:12:31,259 that you couldn't get otherwise. 231 00:12:32,709 --> 00:12:34,310 - [James] Paul deals in Native American 232 00:12:34,334 --> 00:12:38,067 and Pan-Indian motifs, very much a cultural perspective 233 00:12:39,875 --> 00:12:40,875 on his work. 234 00:12:42,792 --> 00:12:44,925 - It's a southwest pottery maker 235 00:12:45,625 --> 00:12:48,758 and a Mexican basket weaver and a silversmith, 236 00:12:55,084 --> 00:12:57,617 and the other one is all the workers, 237 00:12:58,126 --> 00:13:00,659 the real workers, which is the women. 238 00:13:01,209 --> 00:13:04,009 It's all Indian pieces, all tied together 239 00:13:04,499 --> 00:13:05,632 as Indian pieces. 240 00:13:06,709 --> 00:13:09,842 And I fell in love with cultural anthropology, 241 00:13:10,792 --> 00:13:12,475 why man does things, you know. 242 00:13:12,499 --> 00:13:16,099 What the Native American was doing as a manufacturer, 243 00:13:18,875 --> 00:13:21,185 I mean, they were doing these things themselves 244 00:13:21,209 --> 00:13:24,809 and identified their way of living, a way of working. 245 00:13:29,834 --> 00:13:31,476 - [James] Michael Santini styles himself 246 00:13:31,500 --> 00:13:33,967 a modern medievalist and also paints 247 00:13:34,875 --> 00:13:36,475 in more of a surrealist vein. 248 00:13:36,499 --> 00:13:38,601 And Michael's work is very, very detailed, 249 00:13:38,625 --> 00:13:42,158 very nuanced a lot, iconography, a lot of symbolism. 250 00:13:44,542 --> 00:13:47,275 - I love repetition and I love symmetry. 251 00:13:48,418 --> 00:13:49,935 So there's a lot of recurring things 252 00:13:49,959 --> 00:13:52,352 that happen in one painting that'll transfer 253 00:13:52,376 --> 00:13:54,352 and move over into another painting. 254 00:13:54,376 --> 00:13:57,476 Because I want my pieces to be somewhat cerebral, 255 00:13:57,500 --> 00:13:59,633 I want them to make a statement, 256 00:14:00,959 --> 00:14:02,892 to challenge people to think, 257 00:14:03,499 --> 00:14:05,766 and maybe even to make decisions. 258 00:14:08,959 --> 00:14:10,227 I would pick the different symbols 259 00:14:10,251 --> 00:14:13,584 that I wanted to represent the different elements 260 00:14:13,625 --> 00:14:14,475 in that painting. 261 00:14:14,499 --> 00:14:16,559 And then try and bring all the elements 262 00:14:16,583 --> 00:14:19,643 out to the people that are looking at the piece, 263 00:14:19,667 --> 00:14:21,310 so they could kind of interact. 264 00:14:21,334 --> 00:14:23,768 And then, when I would design the border, 265 00:14:23,792 --> 00:14:25,185 I would lay out the border, 266 00:14:25,209 --> 00:14:28,142 then I would take these individual drawings 267 00:14:29,499 --> 00:14:31,643 of these elements, and I would start manipulating them 268 00:14:31,667 --> 00:14:35,267 around the paper to try and get the strongest design. 269 00:14:36,418 --> 00:14:40,351 As time moves on and paint gets a little more transparent, 270 00:14:42,499 --> 00:14:46,432 then the undertones come through and give a lot more form. 271 00:14:47,583 --> 00:14:49,102 - [James] The iconography, the subject matter, 272 00:14:49,126 --> 00:14:53,193 often quite wild and it's inspired by his own spirituality. 273 00:14:54,042 --> 00:14:55,810 And so we see a lot of Biblical motifs 274 00:14:55,834 --> 00:14:59,167 and messages in his work, as well as a great deal 275 00:14:59,667 --> 00:15:00,667 of symbolism. 276 00:15:03,126 --> 00:15:05,435 - [Michael] Through working in industry 277 00:15:05,459 --> 00:15:07,476 and working alongside somebody else 278 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:10,851 and getting to know them, getting to respect them, 279 00:15:10,875 --> 00:15:13,542 I thought this would be kind of apropos 280 00:15:14,042 --> 00:15:15,509 what's going on today. 281 00:15:17,667 --> 00:15:20,935 - [James] We included a number of Milwaukee artists 282 00:15:20,959 --> 00:15:22,159 in the exhibition. 283 00:15:24,001 --> 00:15:27,668 The Suite by Shelby Keefe of the Marquette interchange 284 00:15:28,126 --> 00:15:31,018 of the new Milwaukee Bucks Stadium project, 285 00:15:31,042 --> 00:15:32,175 or arena project. 286 00:15:34,126 --> 00:15:37,810 A couple great paintings by Hal Koenig of local industry, 287 00:15:37,834 --> 00:15:40,234 the swing bridge in the third ward, 288 00:15:40,499 --> 00:15:42,851 some of the other icons that we think of 289 00:15:42,875 --> 00:15:45,008 when we think of local industry. 290 00:15:47,499 --> 00:15:50,475 And they just added a new dimension and another dimension, 291 00:15:50,499 --> 00:15:51,601 a new element to the exhibition 292 00:15:51,625 --> 00:15:53,810 and complemented quite well that art 293 00:15:53,834 --> 00:15:56,434 that the Cedarburg group had produced. 294 00:15:59,499 --> 00:16:01,726 This particular collection of Artists at Work 295 00:16:01,750 --> 00:16:04,185 I think shows a great variety and a great diversity 296 00:16:04,209 --> 00:16:07,143 in interpreting that theme of the art of industry, 297 00:16:07,167 --> 00:16:10,300 but it also showcases some great local talent. 298 00:16:13,001 --> 00:16:16,310 - Learn more about the Grohmann Museum's collection 299 00:16:16,334 --> 00:16:20,001 at msoe.edu/museum. 300 00:16:22,751 --> 00:16:25,310 You can find forks, spoons, and knives 301 00:16:25,334 --> 00:16:29,201 welded together in Gary Hovey's unique animal sculptures. 302 00:16:30,167 --> 00:16:31,768 While Hovey enjoys his craft, 303 00:16:31,792 --> 00:16:35,659 maintaining his technique is becoming a greater challenge 304 00:16:36,083 --> 00:16:37,083 every day. 305 00:16:38,334 --> 00:16:39,226 - I have art in my background, 306 00:16:39,250 --> 00:16:42,183 but not like college or anything like that. 307 00:16:42,626 --> 00:16:45,826 When I was younger, I was into doing clay work, 308 00:16:46,292 --> 00:16:48,435 and then, when we moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, 309 00:16:48,459 --> 00:16:51,792 I went and saw a job that said Fine Arts Foundry. 310 00:16:51,876 --> 00:16:53,143 I did that for several years 311 00:16:53,167 --> 00:16:56,767 and I was in charge of the metal shop in the Foundry, 312 00:16:56,999 --> 00:16:59,066 so I learned how to weld there. 313 00:16:59,876 --> 00:17:01,018 First, I saw John Kearney's work 314 00:17:01,042 --> 00:17:03,810 where he took bumper ends, and welded them together, 315 00:17:03,834 --> 00:17:05,393 and made animals that were large. 316 00:17:05,417 --> 00:17:08,750 We saw his work in Wichita, Kansas, 35 years ago. 317 00:17:09,209 --> 00:17:13,059 I was a teenager at the time and I didn't know how to weld. 318 00:17:13,083 --> 00:17:14,894 I thought it was a great idea. 319 00:17:14,918 --> 00:17:17,101 But then I forgot about it and one day, 320 00:17:17,125 --> 00:17:17,975 I thought of it again. 321 00:17:17,999 --> 00:17:19,477 I told my wife, I said, "I wanna buy some flatware 322 00:17:19,501 --> 00:17:22,501 "and try that idea that I had 30 years ago." 323 00:17:23,042 --> 00:17:23,852 She said, "Yes." 324 00:17:23,876 --> 00:17:26,101 So I went and did it, and I made a dog. 325 00:17:26,125 --> 00:17:27,975 - The first one he did was quite good. 326 00:17:27,999 --> 00:17:29,018 It's a little running dog. 327 00:17:29,042 --> 00:17:31,509 We said he ran like a freight train. 328 00:17:31,542 --> 00:17:33,976 He really had a knack right from the beginning 329 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,800 for capturing the character of an animal. 330 00:17:37,999 --> 00:17:38,999 (playful music) 331 00:17:51,959 --> 00:17:53,185 You have a good day. 332 00:17:53,209 --> 00:17:54,209 See you later. 333 00:17:54,999 --> 00:17:57,799 - I have early onset Parkinson's disease, 334 00:17:58,999 --> 00:18:00,975 and I just had a little twitchy finger. 335 00:18:00,999 --> 00:18:03,143 I went in and tried to figure out what was going on, 336 00:18:03,167 --> 00:18:06,367 and they came out with, "You have Parkinson's." 337 00:18:06,999 --> 00:18:09,332 I've dealt with this for 21 years. 338 00:18:11,999 --> 00:18:15,666 It really is kind of a problem, cuz I can't move fast. 339 00:18:16,042 --> 00:18:18,709 I'm a freezer, I'm not a shaker really. 340 00:18:18,999 --> 00:18:20,799 I can't move once I freeze. 341 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,143 I either lay down or just quit doing 342 00:18:23,167 --> 00:18:24,351 whatever I'm trying for a while. 343 00:18:24,375 --> 00:18:27,768 And then I go back to it, so I get in like four hours 344 00:18:27,792 --> 00:18:30,192 to six hours on a good day of work. 345 00:18:30,626 --> 00:18:32,975 I can either just lay down and give up 346 00:18:32,999 --> 00:18:33,975 or I can just keep moving. 347 00:18:33,999 --> 00:18:36,866 And I've decided that I wanna keep moving. 348 00:18:37,417 --> 00:18:40,976 - For Gary physically, dealing with the Parkinson's disease 349 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:41,976 is a big deal. 350 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,185 There have been several times 351 00:18:43,209 --> 00:18:44,393 when it's just come to be like, 352 00:18:44,417 --> 00:18:47,143 maybe this is it, maybe you're gonna have to quit. 353 00:18:47,167 --> 00:18:49,310 He would just be at a really low point, 354 00:18:49,334 --> 00:18:52,201 and then, we'll manage to work through it. 355 00:18:53,792 --> 00:18:55,976 - I have to say that my wife is just the greatest. 356 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,733 She critiques my work, supports my work. 357 00:18:58,876 --> 00:19:00,727 She drives me everywhere I need to go, 358 00:19:00,751 --> 00:19:02,976 and she takes care of my internet stuff. 359 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,477 She communicates with people. 360 00:19:04,501 --> 00:19:06,834 She's my banker. She's everything. 361 00:19:06,876 --> 00:19:09,409 And so, I couldn't do it without her. 362 00:19:09,584 --> 00:19:10,784 I really couldn't. 363 00:19:11,667 --> 00:19:12,935 - It's just there are some things 364 00:19:12,959 --> 00:19:15,768 that Gary doesn't find easy to do anymore. 365 00:19:15,792 --> 00:19:18,518 I encourage him a lot, cuz there's times 366 00:19:18,542 --> 00:19:21,101 when he just feels like things aren't going as well 367 00:19:21,125 --> 00:19:24,525 as he'd like and he doesn't see the point anymore. 368 00:19:24,792 --> 00:19:27,925 Whatever he needs, I try to be in tune to that 369 00:19:27,999 --> 00:19:29,310 and help him with it. 370 00:19:29,334 --> 00:19:32,768 He says it's not done until I give it my final approval. 371 00:19:32,792 --> 00:19:35,975 - [Gary] Make sure they're all stiff on there, too. 372 00:19:35,999 --> 00:19:36,852 - [Tonnie] But maybe-- 373 00:19:36,876 --> 00:19:39,894 - The first place I'll start is like on a heron, 374 00:19:39,918 --> 00:19:41,518 for instance, he comes off a base. 375 00:19:41,542 --> 00:19:42,975 I'll make that first leg straight 376 00:19:42,999 --> 00:19:45,143 and then I'll work on making everything centered. 377 00:19:45,167 --> 00:19:47,975 I try to make the piece from the head down. 378 00:19:47,999 --> 00:19:49,975 If I make the head a head I like, 379 00:19:49,999 --> 00:19:51,799 then I'll finish the piece. 380 00:19:51,999 --> 00:19:52,999 (tapping) 381 00:19:55,334 --> 00:19:56,975 I put the forks and spoons on top 382 00:19:56,999 --> 00:20:00,132 of this cage I built in there, the body shape. 383 00:20:00,876 --> 00:20:02,894 I limit myself to forks, knives, and spoons. 384 00:20:02,918 --> 00:20:06,585 I could do it with other pieces of metal, but I don't. 385 00:20:07,375 --> 00:20:09,175 It adds a uniqueness to it. 386 00:20:09,626 --> 00:20:12,643 And so, I do have to use new flatware sometimes, 387 00:20:12,667 --> 00:20:14,727 but there's less than two percent of it. 388 00:20:14,751 --> 00:20:16,810 And everything else is used flatware. 389 00:20:16,834 --> 00:20:19,501 I try to keep it eco-friendly that way. 390 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,800 I'll see an animal on TV or in a magazine 391 00:20:25,083 --> 00:20:26,518 and I'll go, "Wow, that's a cool animal. 392 00:20:26,542 --> 00:20:27,852 "I think I'll try and build one of those." 393 00:20:27,876 --> 00:20:31,809 Or I'll see in my mind what flatware to use for an animal. 394 00:20:32,999 --> 00:20:34,602 I try to get the animal to look like 395 00:20:34,626 --> 00:20:36,143 what I think the animal would look like. 396 00:20:36,167 --> 00:20:39,834 I also try to put what I call attitude into my pieces. 397 00:20:39,999 --> 00:20:40,935 I did a family of gorillas. 398 00:20:40,959 --> 00:20:44,426 I tried to make the baby look like he's having fun, 399 00:20:44,626 --> 00:20:46,226 where you look at it, and you look at the heron, 400 00:20:46,250 --> 00:20:49,477 and he looks like he's gonna do something to you 401 00:20:49,501 --> 00:20:50,727 cuz you're bothering him. 402 00:20:50,751 --> 00:20:52,975 It's just a cock of the head a little bit. 403 00:20:52,999 --> 00:20:55,351 - I think people are drawn to Gary's work 404 00:20:55,375 --> 00:20:57,108 because it's not expected. 405 00:20:58,999 --> 00:21:01,932 They can't really figure out how he did it. 406 00:21:01,999 --> 00:21:05,732 How did he get a face out of forks, knives, and spoons. 407 00:21:06,042 --> 00:21:08,894 And they start looking at the individual pieces 408 00:21:08,918 --> 00:21:12,852 that are in it, and maybe they see grandma's pattern in it, 409 00:21:12,876 --> 00:21:13,976 or a pattern that they have, 410 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,533 and they start enjoying just looking at the textures 411 00:21:18,209 --> 00:21:20,276 and the way they work together. 412 00:21:22,792 --> 00:21:23,768 - I'm in kind of a condition 413 00:21:23,792 --> 00:21:26,325 that I'm still able to produce stuff. 414 00:21:26,417 --> 00:21:27,477 I enjoy that respect. 415 00:21:27,501 --> 00:21:29,727 Even though I've got Parkinson's disease, 416 00:21:29,751 --> 00:21:32,751 I haven't given up and I'm not gonna give up 417 00:21:34,626 --> 00:21:35,626 'til I have to. 418 00:21:35,999 --> 00:21:38,602 I'll keep doing this as long as it keeps selling, 419 00:21:38,626 --> 00:21:40,026 I'll keep making 'em. 420 00:21:40,292 --> 00:21:42,975 As long as people keep thinking that I have nice artwork, 421 00:21:42,999 --> 00:21:44,399 then I'll keep at it. 422 00:21:48,626 --> 00:21:52,559 - Check out more of Gary Hovey's artwork at hoveyware.com. 423 00:21:55,292 --> 00:21:56,975 Fashion designer Voszi Douglas 424 00:21:56,999 --> 00:22:00,732 is no stranger to rocking the runway in Columbus, Ohio. 425 00:22:00,999 --> 00:22:03,018 Whether it's casual or evening wear, 426 00:22:03,042 --> 00:22:06,975 she makes sure to spotlight the versatility of her designs. 427 00:22:06,999 --> 00:22:10,999 Here's a behind the scenes look at her annual fashion show. 428 00:22:12,959 --> 00:22:13,959 (pensive music) 429 00:22:26,709 --> 00:22:29,101 - Even when I was a child, before I went to school, 430 00:22:29,125 --> 00:22:29,975 I would draw fashion. 431 00:22:29,999 --> 00:22:31,852 I wanted to be a fashion designer. 432 00:22:31,876 --> 00:22:32,768 I didn't think I'd have to sew. 433 00:22:32,792 --> 00:22:33,975 I thought I would just create these outfits 434 00:22:33,999 --> 00:22:37,466 and somebody would sew them cuz I'd be so fabulous. 435 00:22:37,999 --> 00:22:41,932 I didn't start sewing until I was 25, so that's one thing. 436 00:22:42,542 --> 00:22:44,477 So when I first started sewing, 437 00:22:44,501 --> 00:22:45,975 the drawings that I was doing 438 00:22:45,999 --> 00:22:47,975 were looking like Vogue patterns. 439 00:22:47,999 --> 00:22:49,975 So, of course, I'm buying Vogue patterns 440 00:22:49,999 --> 00:22:51,975 and they're kind of hard to do, 441 00:22:51,999 --> 00:22:53,935 cuz you gotta buy the pattern, 442 00:22:53,959 --> 00:22:55,018 then you gotta cut out the pattern, 443 00:22:55,042 --> 00:22:56,393 then you gotta pin it to the fabric, 444 00:22:56,417 --> 00:22:58,393 then you gotta cut that out, then you gotta fall. 445 00:22:58,417 --> 00:23:00,150 Oh, it makes my head hurt. 446 00:23:01,999 --> 00:23:02,935 It evolved over years. 447 00:23:02,959 --> 00:23:06,026 I didn't do great right off, that's for sure. 448 00:23:06,999 --> 00:23:10,332 What inspires me is fabric and color and texture, 449 00:23:11,083 --> 00:23:13,727 and I just get all excited about all that. 450 00:23:13,751 --> 00:23:15,218 That's exciting to me. 451 00:23:15,792 --> 00:23:16,685 I do hats, jewelry, jackets. 452 00:23:16,709 --> 00:23:18,975 One of my favorite things to do are jackets. 453 00:23:18,999 --> 00:23:21,059 I do jackets out of upholstery fabric. 454 00:23:21,083 --> 00:23:23,685 I think that's what I'm best known for. 455 00:23:23,709 --> 00:23:26,477 When you think about it, it's really high quality, 456 00:23:26,501 --> 00:23:29,727 it's a good textures, sometimes you can use front and back. 457 00:23:29,751 --> 00:23:30,951 I love upholstery. 458 00:23:31,667 --> 00:23:32,667 (playful music) 459 00:23:38,542 --> 00:23:40,975 Now, the show that I'm doing next month is, 460 00:23:40,999 --> 00:23:43,852 once a year since 1982, I do a fashion show 461 00:23:43,876 --> 00:23:45,727 where I preview my new collection. 462 00:23:45,751 --> 00:23:48,684 And so this is the 34th year of doing that. 463 00:23:49,667 --> 00:23:52,334 And I will be sewing and making jewelry 464 00:23:52,542 --> 00:23:55,560 and purses and hats up until they take the sewing machine 465 00:23:55,584 --> 00:23:57,435 and say, "Okay, the models are here 466 00:23:57,459 --> 00:23:59,192 "to try their clothes on." 467 00:23:59,334 --> 00:24:00,101 I have two lines. 468 00:24:00,125 --> 00:24:03,143 I have Voszi Designs, which is maybe like what I have on, 469 00:24:03,167 --> 00:24:05,268 maybe everyday where type of things more. 470 00:24:05,292 --> 00:24:06,768 Then I have the Alvoyce Collection, 471 00:24:06,792 --> 00:24:08,852 which is my higher end collection. 472 00:24:08,876 --> 00:24:10,643 This show is gonna be a whole show 473 00:24:10,667 --> 00:24:11,560 of the Alvoyce Collection. 474 00:24:11,584 --> 00:24:12,810 That's something I've never done before, 475 00:24:12,834 --> 00:24:14,634 so it's exciting and scary. 476 00:24:16,459 --> 00:24:19,659 But it'll be probably 100 and something pieces. 477 00:24:20,209 --> 00:24:21,676 I have like 18 models. 478 00:24:22,999 --> 00:24:23,999 (upbeat music) 479 00:24:51,751 --> 00:24:55,018 I like colors and I like putting things together 480 00:24:55,125 --> 00:24:56,258 that are unusual. 481 00:24:58,999 --> 00:25:00,975 I think a lot of people, if they lose a little weight 482 00:25:00,999 --> 00:25:02,935 or gain a little weight, they can still fit 483 00:25:02,959 --> 00:25:03,518 in my outfits. 484 00:25:03,542 --> 00:25:04,852 And they're changeable cuz you can wear them 485 00:25:04,876 --> 00:25:07,101 frontwards, backwards, sometimes upside down, 486 00:25:07,125 --> 00:25:08,925 cuz they're not structured. 487 00:25:10,626 --> 00:25:12,685 I like outfits that when you walk in a room, 488 00:25:12,709 --> 00:25:13,975 you might love 'em, you might not love 'em, 489 00:25:13,999 --> 00:25:17,999 but you're gonna notice 'em cuz they're gonna be different. 490 00:25:18,167 --> 00:25:19,894 I love people. I love fashion. 491 00:25:19,918 --> 00:25:23,051 I like color and I just wanna leave something, 492 00:25:23,584 --> 00:25:26,852 a legacy when I leave that people loved my clothes. 493 00:25:26,876 --> 00:25:27,727 They're easy to wear. 494 00:25:27,751 --> 00:25:30,884 I wanna also be a nice and a spiritual person. 495 00:25:32,959 --> 00:25:34,518 - For more of Voszi's designs, 496 00:25:34,542 --> 00:25:36,809 go to Facebook.com/voszi.douglas. 497 00:25:40,999 --> 00:25:44,199 And that wraps it up for this edition of WEDU Arts Plus. 498 00:25:44,209 --> 00:25:47,676 For more arts and culture, visit wedu.org/artsplus, 499 00:25:48,999 --> 00:25:52,185 where you'll find feature videos, local events, 500 00:25:52,209 --> 00:25:53,602 and arts and culture partners. 501 00:25:53,626 --> 00:25:57,293 Until next time, I'm Dalia Colon, thanks for watching. 502 00:25:58,417 --> 00:25:59,417 (upbeat music) 503 00:26:27,999 --> 00:26:30,132 Major funding for WEDU Arts Plus 504 00:26:30,709 --> 00:26:33,685 is provided through The Greater Cincinnati Foundation 505 00:26:33,709 --> 00:26:36,101 by an arts-loving donor who encourages others 506 00:26:36,125 --> 00:26:38,458 to support your PBS station, WEDU.