WEBVTT 00:00.500 --> 00:01.633 (uplifting music) 00:03.292 --> 00:04.475 - [Announcer] This special presentation 00:04.499 --> 00:07.232 was produced in high definition by WEDU, 00:07.499 --> 00:09.632 Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota. 00:10.499 --> 00:12.768 - [Dalia] Major funding for WEDU Arts Plus 00:12.792 --> 00:15.768 is provided through The Greater Cincinnati Foundation 00:15.792 --> 00:18.435 by an arts-loving donor who encourages others 00:18.459 --> 00:20.792 to support your PBS station, WEDU. 00:22.709 --> 00:25.042 In this edition of WEDU Arts Plus, 00:25.875 --> 00:28.542 a Tampa musician builds custom guitars. 00:29.001 --> 00:30.435 - [Woody] But they're made of different woods 00:30.459 --> 00:34.259 and so the tones that come from them are very different. 00:34.875 --> 00:35.768 - [Dalia] A work of art. 00:35.792 --> 00:38.475 - [James] Dr. Grohmann's intention in giving the collection 00:38.499 --> 00:40.475 to the School of Engineering was 00:40.499 --> 00:42.102 he thought that students of engineering 00:42.126 --> 00:43.394 and these very technical students 00:43.418 --> 00:46.475 should be confronted with art on a daily basis. 00:46.499 --> 00:48.475 - [Dalia] Welding against the odds. 00:48.499 --> 00:50.893 - I can either just lay down and give up 00:50.917 --> 00:51.851 or I can just keep moving, 00:51.875 --> 00:54.559 and I've decided that I wanna keep moving. 00:54.583 --> 00:56.559 - [Dalia] And designing the runway. 00:56.583 --> 00:58.018 - [Voszi] I do hats, jewelry, jackets. 00:58.042 --> 01:00.475 One of my favorite things to do are jackets. 01:00.499 --> 01:03.499 - It's all coming up next on WEDU Arts Plus. 01:05.376 --> 01:06.376 (upbeat music) 01:21.667 --> 01:25.134 Hello, I'm Dalia Colon, and this is WEDU Arts Plus. 01:27.084 --> 01:28.060 Every musician is unique. 01:28.084 --> 01:31.084 So why shouldn't every instrument be unique? 01:31.292 --> 01:33.768 In this first segment, let's meet a Tampa man 01:33.792 --> 01:36.659 who goes by the nickname Wood Woodcasters. 01:36.834 --> 01:38.685 With the help of some craftsmen and skills 01:38.709 --> 01:42.435 he still remembers from his high school wood shop class, 01:42.459 --> 01:45.126 his custom guitars are striking a chord 01:45.251 --> 01:48.518 with musicians in search of something different. 01:50.042 --> 01:51.042 (blues music) 01:56.292 --> 01:58.475 - I'm Woody Woodcasters and I build 01:58.499 --> 02:02.299 custom exotic wood guitars and basses for fun and profit 02:02.959 --> 02:03.851 and probably for some people 02:03.875 --> 02:07.742 that have a whole lot more money than they ought to have. 02:11.875 --> 02:13.608 They are electric guitars. 02:13.709 --> 02:16.102 We can build acoustic guitars as well. 02:16.126 --> 02:19.143 We've built a couple of solid body acoustics, 02:19.167 --> 02:20.435 but they're made of different woods 02:20.459 --> 02:24.102 and so the tones that come from them are very different 02:24.126 --> 02:27.659 because the woods resonate at different frequencies. 02:30.875 --> 02:35.675 Alright, so you have things like this guitar right here, 02:35.742 --> 02:36.768 number 13. 02:36.792 --> 02:40.125 You have bloodwood, bleached beech, flamed maple, 02:41.500 --> 02:42.475 and wenge going on. 02:42.499 --> 02:46.632 The pickups are made of bloodwood and California olive wood. 02:47.917 --> 02:50.250 Ambrosia maple for the fret board. 02:50.499 --> 02:51.977 The neck is purple, oh wait, 02:52.001 --> 02:54.685 the whole back of this guitar is completely different. 02:54.709 --> 02:57.976 Purple heart and mahogany where we had bloodwood 02:58.875 --> 03:00.060 and bleached beech. 03:00.084 --> 03:02.484 How do you do that? Stack the wood. 03:09.917 --> 03:13.650 I started taking piano lessons back in the early 1960s. 03:14.875 --> 03:17.394 My parents thought I needed to be well-rounded, 03:17.418 --> 03:20.818 but no, I play about 14 different instruments now. 03:22.499 --> 03:25.499 I decided to start building guitars in 2005. 03:27.126 --> 03:29.810 Well, I had a room full of them to begin with, 03:29.834 --> 03:33.367 and so, I'm sitting up in the guitar room, I'm like, 03:34.376 --> 03:37.185 "There's all this plastic on these guitars. 03:37.209 --> 03:39.209 "What if all the plastic parts 03:40.126 --> 03:42.259 "were exotic hardwoods instead." 03:42.418 --> 03:45.818 So we built a couple and the tones were very rich, 03:47.499 --> 03:50.232 and we just didn't look back after that. 03:50.499 --> 03:51.966 One, two, three, four. 03:53.750 --> 03:54.750 (blues music) 04:02.334 --> 04:06.134 We actually formed a band called Woody and the Woodtones 04:06.376 --> 04:08.176 as a blatant marketing tool 04:09.499 --> 04:13.432 to go out and play blues cover songs and play the guitars, 04:16.499 --> 04:19.966 so people could see them and hear them being played 04:20.001 --> 04:21.201 in a live setting. 04:22.167 --> 04:25.300 And didn't take very long, members of the band 04:25.875 --> 04:28.185 started actually writing originals 04:28.209 --> 04:29.352 and so they were really good, 04:29.376 --> 04:32.643 so we put together a CD and we recorded it live. 04:33.542 --> 04:36.942 People started coming up and asking who was Woody. 04:37.209 --> 04:40.609 Since I was the one that was sort of the spokesman 04:40.959 --> 04:42.977 and the one building the instruments, 04:43.001 --> 04:45.601 I wound up becoming Woody Woodcasters. 04:46.667 --> 04:47.667 (upbeat music) 05:01.499 --> 05:02.559 Well, a couple of friends of mine 05:02.583 --> 05:05.850 were involved in the beginning, Craig and Randy. 05:06.667 --> 05:10.000 They had other jobs and I was pretty much retired 05:11.499 --> 05:14.299 from the insurance company at that point. 05:15.292 --> 05:16.359 So I kept going. 05:17.792 --> 05:20.792 I started going online and I started finding 05:22.959 --> 05:24.826 some fine American craftsmen 05:26.499 --> 05:29.032 that actually did some of this stuff. 05:30.500 --> 05:31.833 I like to design it. 05:32.834 --> 05:35.101 I'll get an instrument in my head 05:36.499 --> 05:39.475 and I can actually visualize what it's gonna look like 05:39.499 --> 05:43.232 when it's finished, before even the first piece of wood 05:44.792 --> 05:45.792 is ordered. 05:46.251 --> 05:49.851 So I'll call up, for example, someone building a body 05:50.418 --> 05:52.018 like the one over there, 05:52.499 --> 05:55.499 "I'd like a checker board body, Strat style, 05:58.834 --> 05:59.967 "ash and walnut." 06:00.709 --> 06:03.310 And they'll build the rectangular piece. 06:03.334 --> 06:06.734 They'll cut the body out of that, they'll form it, 06:06.792 --> 06:09.325 and send me that body part, raw wood. 06:12.875 --> 06:14.394 We then have to do the final sanding, 06:14.418 --> 06:16.394 put the nitrocellulose finish on it, 06:16.418 --> 06:20.351 decide on what wood the pickups are gonna be wound out of, 06:20.499 --> 06:22.893 what wire it's gonna be wound out of. 06:22.917 --> 06:25.184 Pickups are the electronic things 06:26.209 --> 06:28.342 that pickup the string vibration 06:29.499 --> 06:33.432 that make the electric signal that goes to your amplifier. 06:34.334 --> 06:35.768 If it's gonna have cavity covers 06:35.792 --> 06:37.435 or pick guards or anything like that, 06:37.459 --> 06:41.059 I have to then go get the wood and build those parts. 06:41.418 --> 06:44.018 Our finish guy is up in Wesley Chapel. 06:44.418 --> 06:46.018 He's a blueberry farmer. 06:46.499 --> 06:47.102 (laughs) 06:47.126 --> 06:50.726 But the rest of the year, he does finish work for us. 06:52.499 --> 06:53.499 (blues music) 06:56.334 --> 06:57.601 You can walk into any Sam Ash, 06:57.625 --> 07:01.492 you can walk into any Guitar Center, any place like that, 07:01.625 --> 07:04.625 all these places have the same exact guitars 07:05.499 --> 07:07.366 from the same manufacturers. 07:07.583 --> 07:11.516 A guitar that you can buy for $200 that was built in China 07:12.625 --> 07:15.292 is built out of basswood and pot metal, 07:16.499 --> 07:19.366 and it's fine for your child starting out. 07:22.583 --> 07:23.768 It's a good beginning instrument. 07:23.792 --> 07:25.792 But then, when you get better, 07:27.499 --> 07:29.832 you decide that you want something 07:31.792 --> 07:34.192 that is going to be your signature. 07:37.499 --> 07:41.432 You want a guitar that nobody else has, down to the cases. 07:42.875 --> 07:44.675 Our cases are custom built. 07:47.376 --> 07:49.909 If you can dream it, we can build it. 07:57.834 --> 08:00.301 I forgot how nice this guitar plays. 08:03.592 --> 08:08.659 - To see more, follow realwoodywoodcasters on Instagram. 08:10.967 --> 08:13.400 On the Milwaukee School of Engineering campus, 08:13.459 --> 08:15.268 there's the Grohmann Museum. 08:15.292 --> 08:19.092 Its entire theme is inspired by the idea of man at work. 08:20.499 --> 08:22.227 Let's take a look at an exhibition 08:22.251 --> 08:26.051 where artists collaborated to depict human productivity. 08:28.459 --> 08:29.592 (uplifting music) 08:31.834 --> 08:35.101 - We like to say science without art is nothing. 08:35.251 --> 08:36.726 Not so much to provide culture, 08:36.750 --> 08:39.617 but just to provide a broader view of art. 08:42.126 --> 08:45.102 The Grohmann Museum, it was the product of a gift 08:45.126 --> 08:46.475 to the Milwaukee School of Engineering 08:46.499 --> 08:49.566 of an art collection by Dr. Eckhart Grohmann. 08:51.209 --> 08:53.935 The collection all dealt with the art of industry. 08:53.959 --> 08:55.518 Dr. Grohmann was an aluminum founder. 08:55.542 --> 08:57.518 He ran a foundry on the south side of Milwaukee. 08:57.542 --> 09:00.475 That's why he had an affinity to collecting art 09:00.499 --> 09:02.810 and depictions of labor and depictions of industry. 09:02.834 --> 09:05.167 That's where the collection began. 09:06.499 --> 09:08.559 We're absolutely unique in that the collection 09:08.583 --> 09:10.352 all deals with human industry. 09:10.376 --> 09:12.475 It's the art of industry, the art of labor, 09:12.499 --> 09:13.559 the art of human achievement. 09:13.583 --> 09:15.726 The way the collection's organized in the museum 09:15.750 --> 09:16.768 is it's broken out thematically. 09:16.792 --> 09:19.475 On the first floor, we have iron and steel production 09:19.499 --> 09:21.559 and all things related to heavy industry. 09:21.583 --> 09:23.935 On the second floor, we have construction and agriculture, 09:23.959 --> 09:27.426 so the more rural motifs and those sorts of themes. 09:27.499 --> 09:28.810 And on the third floor, it's craftsmen 09:28.834 --> 09:30.352 and intellectual trades, so that's a little more 09:30.376 --> 09:33.810 of a catch-all and includes some of the oldest pieces 09:33.834 --> 09:35.034 in the collection. 09:36.792 --> 09:39.310 There's a number of site specific art works 09:39.334 --> 09:40.893 included in the building design. 09:40.917 --> 09:44.250 They include the mosaic floor on which you enter. 09:44.667 --> 09:48.134 You look directly up and you see our ceiling mural. 09:49.251 --> 09:50.143 The rooftop sculpture garden, 09:50.167 --> 09:53.227 it's a green roof that includes 18 sculptures 09:53.251 --> 09:54.143 that were all reproduced. 09:54.167 --> 09:55.559 They're site specific pieces 09:55.583 --> 09:57.475 based on pieces in the permanent collection, 09:57.499 --> 09:58.475 so they were reproduced in life size 09:58.499 --> 10:01.832 and larger than life size for our rooftop garden. 10:03.917 --> 10:06.475 Dr. Grohmann's intention in giving the collection 10:06.499 --> 10:07.935 to the School of Engineering 10:07.959 --> 10:09.977 was he thought that students of engineering 10:10.001 --> 10:11.227 and these very technical students 10:11.251 --> 10:14.451 should be confronted with art on a daily basis. 10:16.251 --> 10:18.810 We host a number of feature exhibitions every year. 10:18.834 --> 10:20.268 The current exhibition, Artists at Work, 10:20.292 --> 10:22.475 is a wonderful collaboration that we put together 10:22.499 --> 10:24.632 with The Cedarburg Artists Guild 10:24.917 --> 10:28.250 and a great opportunity to showcase local talent. 10:28.583 --> 10:32.383 This exhibition came about as a result of a conversation 10:32.499 --> 10:33.475 I had with Susan Steinhafel. 10:33.499 --> 10:35.810 Susan is the director of the Cedarburg Artists Guild. 10:35.834 --> 10:38.685 So we discussed our theme, that is the theme of industry, 10:38.709 --> 10:42.642 the theme of work, and kind of presented it as a challenge 10:42.917 --> 10:44.893 to the guild to create new pieces 10:44.917 --> 10:46.475 surrounding this theme of industry, 10:46.499 --> 10:48.766 this theme of human productivity. 10:49.001 --> 10:51.801 And they readily accepted that challenge. 10:55.750 --> 10:58.617 There are 42 works by 14 featured artists. 10:59.001 --> 11:02.268 The collection is laid out by artists, actually. 11:02.499 --> 11:03.893 We have them arranged on the wall 11:03.917 --> 11:07.435 with their pieces as companion pieces to one another. 11:07.459 --> 11:09.310 But we also laid it out thematically, 11:09.334 --> 11:11.476 so we looked for natural connections 11:11.500 --> 11:13.233 between the artists' work. 11:17.499 --> 11:19.432 We have paintings, of course. 11:19.709 --> 11:22.935 We have works on paper, including prints and photographs, 11:22.959 --> 11:26.892 and a wide variety in interpreting the theme of industry. 11:28.625 --> 11:30.143 Some of the artists go at it straight 11:30.167 --> 11:32.559 and just document industry in a snapshot, 11:32.583 --> 11:35.183 in more of a straightforward approach. 11:35.459 --> 11:36.476 Others go at it a little differently, 11:36.500 --> 11:39.018 think about the philosophy, the psychology behind work, 11:39.042 --> 11:42.442 what work means to us, what work means to culture. 11:46.750 --> 11:48.102 A little bit about Paul Yank's work, 11:48.126 --> 11:51.475 Paul is very revered by The Cedarburg Artists Guild. 11:51.499 --> 11:52.559 They all very much look up to him 11:52.583 --> 11:54.810 because he is a master printmaker, 11:54.834 --> 11:55.810 and so, a lot of the printmakers 11:55.834 --> 11:57.185 that are included in the exhibition 11:57.209 --> 12:00.643 have taken their learning and their tutelage from Paul. 12:00.667 --> 12:02.534 - And you've got it on here. 12:02.667 --> 12:04.475 We work with transparent inks. 12:04.499 --> 12:07.966 We leave the textures that are behind come through. 12:09.251 --> 12:12.051 We don't wanna lose all the things in it. 12:14.583 --> 12:17.716 It's monoprint slash pochoir, means stenciled, 12:20.959 --> 12:23.685 and that way we can lay color over color, 12:23.709 --> 12:25.352 and with the transparencies, 12:25.376 --> 12:28.043 you can get some really beautiful tones 12:29.126 --> 12:31.259 that you couldn't get otherwise. 12:32.709 --> 12:34.310 - [James] Paul deals in Native American 12:34.334 --> 12:38.067 and Pan-Indian motifs, very much a cultural perspective 12:39.875 --> 12:40.875 on his work. 12:42.792 --> 12:44.925 - It's a southwest pottery maker 12:45.625 --> 12:48.758 and a Mexican basket weaver and a silversmith, 12:55.084 --> 12:57.617 and the other one is all the workers, 12:58.126 --> 13:00.659 the real workers, which is the women. 13:01.209 --> 13:04.009 It's all Indian pieces, all tied together 13:04.499 --> 13:05.632 as Indian pieces. 13:06.709 --> 13:09.842 And I fell in love with cultural anthropology, 13:10.792 --> 13:12.475 why man does things, you know. 13:12.499 --> 13:16.099 What the Native American was doing as a manufacturer, 13:18.875 --> 13:21.185 I mean, they were doing these things themselves 13:21.209 --> 13:24.809 and identified their way of living, a way of working. 13:29.834 --> 13:31.476 - [James] Michael Santini styles himself 13:31.500 --> 13:33.967 a modern medievalist and also paints 13:34.875 --> 13:36.475 in more of a surrealist vein. 13:36.499 --> 13:38.601 And Michael's work is very, very detailed, 13:38.625 --> 13:42.158 very nuanced a lot, iconography, a lot of symbolism. 13:44.542 --> 13:47.275 - I love repetition and I love symmetry. 13:48.418 --> 13:49.935 So there's a lot of recurring things 13:49.959 --> 13:52.352 that happen in one painting that'll transfer 13:52.376 --> 13:54.352 and move over into another painting. 13:54.376 --> 13:57.476 Because I want my pieces to be somewhat cerebral, 13:57.500 --> 13:59.633 I want them to make a statement, 14:00.959 --> 14:02.892 to challenge people to think, 14:03.499 --> 14:05.766 and maybe even to make decisions. 14:08.959 --> 14:10.227 I would pick the different symbols 14:10.251 --> 14:13.584 that I wanted to represent the different elements 14:13.625 --> 14:14.475 in that painting. 14:14.499 --> 14:16.559 And then try and bring all the elements 14:16.583 --> 14:19.643 out to the people that are looking at the piece, 14:19.667 --> 14:21.310 so they could kind of interact. 14:21.334 --> 14:23.768 And then, when I would design the border, 14:23.792 --> 14:25.185 I would lay out the border, 14:25.209 --> 14:28.142 then I would take these individual drawings 14:29.499 --> 14:31.643 of these elements, and I would start manipulating them 14:31.667 --> 14:35.267 around the paper to try and get the strongest design. 14:36.418 --> 14:40.351 As time moves on and paint gets a little more transparent, 14:42.499 --> 14:46.432 then the undertones come through and give a lot more form. 14:47.583 --> 14:49.102 - [James] The iconography, the subject matter, 14:49.126 --> 14:53.193 often quite wild and it's inspired by his own spirituality. 14:54.042 --> 14:55.810 And so we see a lot of Biblical motifs 14:55.834 --> 14:59.167 and messages in his work, as well as a great deal 14:59.667 --> 15:00.667 of symbolism. 15:03.126 --> 15:05.435 - [Michael] Through working in industry 15:05.459 --> 15:07.476 and working alongside somebody else 15:07.500 --> 15:10.851 and getting to know them, getting to respect them, 15:10.875 --> 15:13.542 I thought this would be kind of apropos 15:14.042 --> 15:15.509 what's going on today. 15:17.667 --> 15:20.935 - [James] We included a number of Milwaukee artists 15:20.959 --> 15:22.159 in the exhibition. 15:24.001 --> 15:27.668 The Suite by Shelby Keefe of the Marquette interchange 15:28.126 --> 15:31.018 of the new Milwaukee Bucks Stadium project, 15:31.042 --> 15:32.175 or arena project. 15:34.126 --> 15:37.810 A couple great paintings by Hal Koenig of local industry, 15:37.834 --> 15:40.234 the swing bridge in the third ward, 15:40.499 --> 15:42.851 some of the other icons that we think of 15:42.875 --> 15:45.008 when we think of local industry. 15:47.499 --> 15:50.475 And they just added a new dimension and another dimension, 15:50.499 --> 15:51.601 a new element to the exhibition 15:51.625 --> 15:53.810 and complemented quite well that art 15:53.834 --> 15:56.434 that the Cedarburg group had produced. 15:59.499 --> 16:01.726 This particular collection of Artists at Work 16:01.750 --> 16:04.185 I think shows a great variety and a great diversity 16:04.209 --> 16:07.143 in interpreting that theme of the art of industry, 16:07.167 --> 16:10.300 but it also showcases some great local talent. 16:13.001 --> 16:16.310 - Learn more about the Grohmann Museum's collection 16:16.334 --> 16:20.001 at msoe.edu/museum. 16:22.751 --> 16:25.310 You can find forks, spoons, and knives 16:25.334 --> 16:29.201 welded together in Gary Hovey's unique animal sculptures. 16:30.167 --> 16:31.768 While Hovey enjoys his craft, 16:31.792 --> 16:35.659 maintaining his technique is becoming a greater challenge 16:36.083 --> 16:37.083 every day. 16:38.334 --> 16:39.226 - I have art in my background, 16:39.250 --> 16:42.183 but not like college or anything like that. 16:42.626 --> 16:45.826 When I was younger, I was into doing clay work, 16:46.292 --> 16:48.435 and then, when we moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, 16:48.459 --> 16:51.792 I went and saw a job that said Fine Arts Foundry. 16:51.876 --> 16:53.143 I did that for several years 16:53.167 --> 16:56.767 and I was in charge of the metal shop in the Foundry, 16:56.999 --> 16:59.066 so I learned how to weld there. 16:59.876 --> 17:01.018 First, I saw John Kearney's work 17:01.042 --> 17:03.810 where he took bumper ends, and welded them together, 17:03.834 --> 17:05.393 and made animals that were large. 17:05.417 --> 17:08.750 We saw his work in Wichita, Kansas, 35 years ago. 17:09.209 --> 17:13.059 I was a teenager at the time and I didn't know how to weld. 17:13.083 --> 17:14.894 I thought it was a great idea. 17:14.918 --> 17:17.101 But then I forgot about it and one day, 17:17.125 --> 17:17.975 I thought of it again. 17:17.999 --> 17:19.477 I told my wife, I said, "I wanna buy some flatware 17:19.501 --> 17:22.501 "and try that idea that I had 30 years ago." 17:23.042 --> 17:23.852 She said, "Yes." 17:23.876 --> 17:26.101 So I went and did it, and I made a dog. 17:26.125 --> 17:27.975 - The first one he did was quite good. 17:27.999 --> 17:29.018 It's a little running dog. 17:29.042 --> 17:31.509 We said he ran like a freight train. 17:31.542 --> 17:33.976 He really had a knack right from the beginning 17:34.000 --> 17:36.800 for capturing the character of an animal. 17:37.999 --> 17:38.999 (playful music) 17:51.959 --> 17:53.185 You have a good day. 17:53.209 --> 17:54.209 See you later. 17:54.999 --> 17:57.799 - I have early onset Parkinson's disease, 17:58.999 --> 18:00.975 and I just had a little twitchy finger. 18:00.999 --> 18:03.143 I went in and tried to figure out what was going on, 18:03.167 --> 18:06.367 and they came out with, "You have Parkinson's." 18:06.999 --> 18:09.332 I've dealt with this for 21 years. 18:11.999 --> 18:15.666 It really is kind of a problem, cuz I can't move fast. 18:16.042 --> 18:18.709 I'm a freezer, I'm not a shaker really. 18:18.999 --> 18:20.799 I can't move once I freeze. 18:21.000 --> 18:23.143 I either lay down or just quit doing 18:23.167 --> 18:24.351 whatever I'm trying for a while. 18:24.375 --> 18:27.768 And then I go back to it, so I get in like four hours 18:27.792 --> 18:30.192 to six hours on a good day of work. 18:30.626 --> 18:32.975 I can either just lay down and give up 18:32.999 --> 18:33.975 or I can just keep moving. 18:33.999 --> 18:36.866 And I've decided that I wanna keep moving. 18:37.417 --> 18:40.976 - For Gary physically, dealing with the Parkinson's disease 18:41.000 --> 18:41.976 is a big deal. 18:42.000 --> 18:43.185 There have been several times 18:43.209 --> 18:44.393 when it's just come to be like, 18:44.417 --> 18:47.143 maybe this is it, maybe you're gonna have to quit. 18:47.167 --> 18:49.310 He would just be at a really low point, 18:49.334 --> 18:52.201 and then, we'll manage to work through it. 18:53.792 --> 18:55.976 - I have to say that my wife is just the greatest. 18:56.000 --> 18:58.733 She critiques my work, supports my work. 18:58.876 --> 19:00.727 She drives me everywhere I need to go, 19:00.751 --> 19:02.976 and she takes care of my internet stuff. 19:03.000 --> 19:04.477 She communicates with people. 19:04.501 --> 19:06.834 She's my banker. She's everything. 19:06.876 --> 19:09.409 And so, I couldn't do it without her. 19:09.584 --> 19:10.784 I really couldn't. 19:11.667 --> 19:12.935 - It's just there are some things 19:12.959 --> 19:15.768 that Gary doesn't find easy to do anymore. 19:15.792 --> 19:18.518 I encourage him a lot, cuz there's times 19:18.542 --> 19:21.101 when he just feels like things aren't going as well 19:21.125 --> 19:24.525 as he'd like and he doesn't see the point anymore. 19:24.792 --> 19:27.925 Whatever he needs, I try to be in tune to that 19:27.999 --> 19:29.310 and help him with it. 19:29.334 --> 19:32.768 He says it's not done until I give it my final approval. 19:32.792 --> 19:35.975 - [Gary] Make sure they're all stiff on there, too. 19:35.999 --> 19:36.852 - [Tonnie] But maybe-- 19:36.876 --> 19:39.894 - The first place I'll start is like on a heron, 19:39.918 --> 19:41.518 for instance, he comes off a base. 19:41.542 --> 19:42.975 I'll make that first leg straight 19:42.999 --> 19:45.143 and then I'll work on making everything centered. 19:45.167 --> 19:47.975 I try to make the piece from the head down. 19:47.999 --> 19:49.975 If I make the head a head I like, 19:49.999 --> 19:51.799 then I'll finish the piece. 19:51.999 --> 19:52.999 (tapping) 19:55.334 --> 19:56.975 I put the forks and spoons on top 19:56.999 --> 20:00.132 of this cage I built in there, the body shape. 20:00.876 --> 20:02.894 I limit myself to forks, knives, and spoons. 20:02.918 --> 20:06.585 I could do it with other pieces of metal, but I don't. 20:07.375 --> 20:09.175 It adds a uniqueness to it. 20:09.626 --> 20:12.643 And so, I do have to use new flatware sometimes, 20:12.667 --> 20:14.727 but there's less than two percent of it. 20:14.751 --> 20:16.810 And everything else is used flatware. 20:16.834 --> 20:19.501 I try to keep it eco-friendly that way. 20:22.000 --> 20:24.800 I'll see an animal on TV or in a magazine 20:25.083 --> 20:26.518 and I'll go, "Wow, that's a cool animal. 20:26.542 --> 20:27.852 "I think I'll try and build one of those." 20:27.876 --> 20:31.809 Or I'll see in my mind what flatware to use for an animal. 20:32.999 --> 20:34.602 I try to get the animal to look like 20:34.626 --> 20:36.143 what I think the animal would look like. 20:36.167 --> 20:39.834 I also try to put what I call attitude into my pieces. 20:39.999 --> 20:40.935 I did a family of gorillas. 20:40.959 --> 20:44.426 I tried to make the baby look like he's having fun, 20:44.626 --> 20:46.226 where you look at it, and you look at the heron, 20:46.250 --> 20:49.477 and he looks like he's gonna do something to you 20:49.501 --> 20:50.727 cuz you're bothering him. 20:50.751 --> 20:52.975 It's just a cock of the head a little bit. 20:52.999 --> 20:55.351 - I think people are drawn to Gary's work 20:55.375 --> 20:57.108 because it's not expected. 20:58.999 --> 21:01.932 They can't really figure out how he did it. 21:01.999 --> 21:05.732 How did he get a face out of forks, knives, and spoons. 21:06.042 --> 21:08.894 And they start looking at the individual pieces 21:08.918 --> 21:12.852 that are in it, and maybe they see grandma's pattern in it, 21:12.876 --> 21:13.976 or a pattern that they have, 21:14.000 --> 21:17.533 and they start enjoying just looking at the textures 21:18.209 --> 21:20.276 and the way they work together. 21:22.792 --> 21:23.768 - I'm in kind of a condition 21:23.792 --> 21:26.325 that I'm still able to produce stuff. 21:26.417 --> 21:27.477 I enjoy that respect. 21:27.501 --> 21:29.727 Even though I've got Parkinson's disease, 21:29.751 --> 21:32.751 I haven't given up and I'm not gonna give up 21:34.626 --> 21:35.626 'til I have to. 21:35.999 --> 21:38.602 I'll keep doing this as long as it keeps selling, 21:38.626 --> 21:40.026 I'll keep making 'em. 21:40.292 --> 21:42.975 As long as people keep thinking that I have nice artwork, 21:42.999 --> 21:44.399 then I'll keep at it. 21:48.626 --> 21:52.559 - Check out more of Gary Hovey's artwork at hoveyware.com. 21:55.292 --> 21:56.975 Fashion designer Voszi Douglas 21:56.999 --> 22:00.732 is no stranger to rocking the runway in Columbus, Ohio. 22:00.999 --> 22:03.018 Whether it's casual or evening wear, 22:03.042 --> 22:06.975 she makes sure to spotlight the versatility of her designs. 22:06.999 --> 22:10.999 Here's a behind the scenes look at her annual fashion show. 22:12.959 --> 22:13.959 (pensive music) 22:26.709 --> 22:29.101 - Even when I was a child, before I went to school, 22:29.125 --> 22:29.975 I would draw fashion. 22:29.999 --> 22:31.852 I wanted to be a fashion designer. 22:31.876 --> 22:32.768 I didn't think I'd have to sew. 22:32.792 --> 22:33.975 I thought I would just create these outfits 22:33.999 --> 22:37.466 and somebody would sew them cuz I'd be so fabulous. 22:37.999 --> 22:41.932 I didn't start sewing until I was 25, so that's one thing. 22:42.542 --> 22:44.477 So when I first started sewing, 22:44.501 --> 22:45.975 the drawings that I was doing 22:45.999 --> 22:47.975 were looking like Vogue patterns. 22:47.999 --> 22:49.975 So, of course, I'm buying Vogue patterns 22:49.999 --> 22:51.975 and they're kind of hard to do, 22:51.999 --> 22:53.935 cuz you gotta buy the pattern, 22:53.959 --> 22:55.018 then you gotta cut out the pattern, 22:55.042 --> 22:56.393 then you gotta pin it to the fabric, 22:56.417 --> 22:58.393 then you gotta cut that out, then you gotta fall. 22:58.417 --> 23:00.150 Oh, it makes my head hurt. 23:01.999 --> 23:02.935 It evolved over years. 23:02.959 --> 23:06.026 I didn't do great right off, that's for sure. 23:06.999 --> 23:10.332 What inspires me is fabric and color and texture, 23:11.083 --> 23:13.727 and I just get all excited about all that. 23:13.751 --> 23:15.218 That's exciting to me. 23:15.792 --> 23:16.685 I do hats, jewelry, jackets. 23:16.709 --> 23:18.975 One of my favorite things to do are jackets. 23:18.999 --> 23:21.059 I do jackets out of upholstery fabric. 23:21.083 --> 23:23.685 I think that's what I'm best known for. 23:23.709 --> 23:26.477 When you think about it, it's really high quality, 23:26.501 --> 23:29.727 it's a good textures, sometimes you can use front and back. 23:29.751 --> 23:30.951 I love upholstery. 23:31.667 --> 23:32.667 (playful music) 23:38.542 --> 23:40.975 Now, the show that I'm doing next month is, 23:40.999 --> 23:43.852 once a year since 1982, I do a fashion show 23:43.876 --> 23:45.727 where I preview my new collection. 23:45.751 --> 23:48.684 And so this is the 34th year of doing that. 23:49.667 --> 23:52.334 And I will be sewing and making jewelry 23:52.542 --> 23:55.560 and purses and hats up until they take the sewing machine 23:55.584 --> 23:57.435 and say, "Okay, the models are here 23:57.459 --> 23:59.192 "to try their clothes on." 23:59.334 --> 24:00.101 I have two lines. 24:00.125 --> 24:03.143 I have Voszi Designs, which is maybe like what I have on, 24:03.167 --> 24:05.268 maybe everyday where type of things more. 24:05.292 --> 24:06.768 Then I have the Alvoyce Collection, 24:06.792 --> 24:08.852 which is my higher end collection. 24:08.876 --> 24:10.643 This show is gonna be a whole show 24:10.667 --> 24:11.560 of the Alvoyce Collection. 24:11.584 --> 24:12.810 That's something I've never done before, 24:12.834 --> 24:14.634 so it's exciting and scary. 24:16.459 --> 24:19.659 But it'll be probably 100 and something pieces. 24:20.209 --> 24:21.676 I have like 18 models. 24:22.999 --> 24:23.999 (upbeat music) 24:51.751 --> 24:55.018 I like colors and I like putting things together 24:55.125 --> 24:56.258 that are unusual. 24:58.999 --> 25:00.975 I think a lot of people, if they lose a little weight 25:00.999 --> 25:02.935 or gain a little weight, they can still fit 25:02.959 --> 25:03.518 in my outfits. 25:03.542 --> 25:04.852 And they're changeable cuz you can wear them 25:04.876 --> 25:07.101 frontwards, backwards, sometimes upside down, 25:07.125 --> 25:08.925 cuz they're not structured. 25:10.626 --> 25:12.685 I like outfits that when you walk in a room, 25:12.709 --> 25:13.975 you might love 'em, you might not love 'em, 25:13.999 --> 25:17.999 but you're gonna notice 'em cuz they're gonna be different. 25:18.167 --> 25:19.894 I love people. I love fashion. 25:19.918 --> 25:23.051 I like color and I just wanna leave something, 25:23.584 --> 25:26.852 a legacy when I leave that people loved my clothes. 25:26.876 --> 25:27.727 They're easy to wear. 25:27.751 --> 25:30.884 I wanna also be a nice and a spiritual person. 25:32.959 --> 25:34.518 - For more of Voszi's designs, 25:34.542 --> 25:36.809 go to Facebook.com/voszi.douglas. 25:40.999 --> 25:44.199 And that wraps it up for this edition of WEDU Arts Plus. 25:44.209 --> 25:47.676 For more arts and culture, visit wedu.org/artsplus, 25:48.999 --> 25:52.185 where you'll find feature videos, local events, 25:52.209 --> 25:53.602 and arts and culture partners. 25:53.626 --> 25:57.293 Until next time, I'm Dalia Colon, thanks for watching. 25:58.417 --> 25:59.417 (upbeat music) 26:27.999 --> 26:30.132 Major funding for WEDU Arts Plus 26:30.709 --> 26:33.685 is provided through The Greater Cincinnati Foundation 26:33.709 --> 26:36.101 by an arts-loving donor who encourages others 26:36.125 --> 26:38.458 to support your PBS station, WEDU.