WLIW Arts Beat

WLIW Arts Beat - March 1, 2021
In this edition of WLIW Arts Beat, a space for individuals to find out more about printmaking; a non-profit organization that brings the art of yoga to young adults; an architectural marvel that serves as a time capsule of the Gilded Age; experiencing the craft of farming and ranching.
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>> In this edition of
"WLIW Arts Beat"...
a well-established printmaking
studio.
>> You don't really know what
you're gonna get until you lift
that paper up for the first
time.
It's a magical moment.
It's really fun.
>> ...the art of yoga's ability
to heal...
>> We're giving them tools to
digest their experiences in a
healthy and a safe way.
>> ...an historic Gilded Age
mansion.
>> When you're walking through
the house, you experience some
unique things from our history
that set a path for where we are
today.
>> ...the craft of farming and
ranching.
>> A lot of these kids never get
to be out of the city limits or
even get to be around livestock
or horses, and so this may be
their only opportunity.
>> It's all ahead on this
edition of "WLIW Arts Beat."
Funding for "WLIW Arts Beat" was
made possible by viewers like
you.
Thank you.
Welcome to "WLIW Arts Beat."
I'm Diane Masciale.
Since 1979, Tiger Lily Press has
been providing a space for
individuals to find out more
about printmaking.
From silk screen to etching to
letterpress, all aspects of the
artistic process are explored.
We head to Cincinnati, Ohio, for
the story.
>> Tiger Lily Press is a group
of volunteer printmakers, and I
want to stress the "volunteer"
because we've been around for
40 years and we've maintained
the fine art of printmaking for
all those years with a volunteer
group.
We're located at the
Dunham Recreation Center in
Cincinnati, and we've been here
since 2001.
And they've been very generous
to us, and the campus is
beautiful.
The mission of Tiger Lily Press
is to promote, to preserve, and
to print fine-art hand-pulled
prints.
We're unique in that way, in
that we're preserving this old
art.
Our classes are taught by our
members.
So, we have silk screen.
We have collagraph.
We have etching.
We have relief printings.
We have letterpress classes so
people can take a class and come
in and print and learn.
And if you really enjoy it, then
you can become a member and
learn more.
>> I would highly recommend it,
if you have any interest in
printmaking, to take a class.
I think people often think that
they have to know how to draw or
they have to be an artist to
take a class.
But that's the beauty of
printmaking is that you can have
no drawing ability and you can
still make incredible work.
One thing that's really nice is
that printmaking is a varied
art.
There are a lot of different
ways to go about printmaking.
I think it's a great way for
people to figure out what they
like.
And I think there's probably
some form of printmaking for
everybody.
>> I first became aware of
Tiger Lily Press when I was in
graduate school at DAAP.
I was first drawn to the
organization by just the love of
printmaking and knowing that
there were common-minded people
that enjoyed the same thing.
I think what sets Tiger Lily
apart from other printmaking
studios is that it is a fine-art
printmaking studio.
You can go to other printmaking
studios and maybe do silk
screen, but you'd have to go to
another institution to maybe
learn intaglio and then another
institution to maybe learn
relief.
Well, here at Tiger Lily, we
have all aspects of printmaking.
Not only do we have classes here
that you can sign up and take
part in, but we've done outreach
classes to local communities and
high schools that might have a
smaller arts department or arts
funding.
So I think we fulfill our
mission that way, by trying to
bring printmaking out to the
wider audience.
One thing that really helps
Tiger Lily be an integral part
of the community and something
that I think, in general, is
lacking -- when you're an artist
and you get out of school,
places like this, I think, are
very integral in that transition
period.
You can come here and work in
our studio and have access to
the presses.
Here at Tiger Lily, we do the
Working Artist Program, and it
basically lasts a year.
And there's a little bit of a
money stipend to it, but it's
mostly about having complete and
utter access to the facilities.
And the Working Artist Program,
for me, it was a really nice way
to dive deep back into
printmaking.
It really helps to give you that
dedicated and supported time to
explore your work.
>> Almost all of the inspiration
for my work comes from my walks.
I take photos when I'm out.
And, usually, it's of a weed or
a plant.
And so I usually work from a
photograph that I've taken, and
I'll blow the photograph up
pretty big, 'cause I like to
work large, and then I usually
do a pencil drawing from my big
photo.
Once I've done a giant pencil
drawing, I transfer it to my
plate.
And then once I have the image
transferred to the plate, I
start carving.
And the carving can take me
anywhere from 2 weeks to
6 weeks.
And then once I have it carved,
I print.
I remember when I would pull the
print up for the first time,
like, for the very first time.
Even though it wasn't a perfect
print, I was like, "I love
this."
It's kind of a magical moment
that only really happens in
printmaking, because it's a
surprise.
You don't really know what
you're gonna get until you lift
that paper up for the first
time.
It's a magical moment.
It's really fun.
>> We're having our 40th
anniversary show at
Kennedy Heights Art Center.
We will show our history in a
timeline so that you can see
when we began with some of the
portfolios that were developed
over time.
And we also have what we call a
Working Artist Program.
So we'll have those artists's
work on a wall.
And then the other rooms will be
filled with the current
members's artwork.
>> Tiger Lily has been here for
40 years, which is credit to
them.
That's a long time to be a
volunteer-ran organization.
>> Tiger Lily has been such a
great influence on me.
There's such a community at
Tiger Lily Press.
When I first started, I had so
many questions.
"How do I clean my instruments
when I'm done?
What's the best paper to use?"
I just had a million questions,
and there's such a community
here of people who I can ask.
>> It's amazing to watch people
in classes when they actually
pull up their first print.
I mean, the look on their face
is amazing.
It gives you chills just even to
think about it.
>> I think by taking classes,
people are able to find out how
to go through the process of
making art and just finding what
makes you happy.
I think everybody has some kind
of talent, and we just have to
find it.
>> Tiger Lily's one of those
little hidden gems, and I think
right now, as we're transferring
out of that into, like, a
501(c)(3) and being more public,
our role is only gonna increase
in Cincinnati and how we help
the community at large.
I think, in general, if you kind
of look at your arts community
as like a tapestry -- right? --
and the more design and the more
detail, the more color, the more
interesting it is to look at.
Arts institutions are integral
to the community just to expand
what we see as beauty and to
bring maybe disparate groups
together that necessarily
wouldn't meet and hang out.
You know, art does that
sometimes.
Like, we're all here to make a
print, but, you know, in
essence, we're getting to learn
about each other and being that
community.
>> For more information, head to
tigerlilypress.org.
And now the Artist
Quote of the Week.
The Urban Lotus Project is
non-profit organization in Reno,
Nevada, that brings the art of
yoga to young adults.
While learning to master this
craft, participants encounter
the mental and physical benefits
of this ancient practice.
Take a look.
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>> The Urban Lotus Project is a
non-profit here in Reno, Nevada.
And we contract with yoga
teachers in the community to
bring yoga, specifically
trauma-informed yoga, and
meditation practices to
different agencies that serve
at-risk or underserved youth and
young adults here in the
community, specifically those
kids that are afflicted or
impacted by addiction, violence,
incarceration, homelessness.
>> It's a preventative program.
We're getting to them before
they make the bad decision, or
even after they do or even after
they've had their trauma, we're
giving them tools to digest
their experiences in a healthy
and a safe way so that they can
reclaim ownership of their
bodies, they can reclaim
ownership of their lives before
they step into adulthood.
And to date, since we've
started, we've served about
14,000 students.
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>> The trauma-informed yoga is
to help ease them into a new way
of exercising and becoming
mindful of their breath and how
they can learn to adjust and
cope with stressors in life.
And I like to do kind of a yoga
nidra, where it's focusing on
each body part and taking them
through slowly to become more
mindful of their breath and
their body, so actually focusing
on each body part, walking them
through it, relaxing them, and
then finding stillness and
Shavasana, which is corpse
pose...
[ Laughs ]
...and just laying still and
letting them let thoughts come
in their mind and then letting
them go.
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>> We are always looking for
strong relationships and
partners with yoga studios and
yoga teachers in the community.
And one of the Urban Lotus
Project's longest-standing
partnerships in town has been
YogaHood Yoga Studio.
They've graciously offered their
space so that we can host our
free community classes there.
And the co-owners there have
both served Urban Lotus in the
past in different capacities.
>> Our children need support,
and this is one way that I can
give back, that we can give back
as business owners.
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>> In its whole form, yoga
offers us ways of living that
help us to be happy and healthy
in our bodies, in our minds.
Every time we come to the mat,
every time we take a deep
breath...
[ Breathes deeply ]
...and relax our bodies, we're
communicating with our nervous
systems that it's okay to relax.
It's okay to just be who we are
in the world and express
ourselves in the world, and
that's really golden for these
young adults that we're working
with.
>> We're taking what we know in
the science about how it works
with regulating the nervous
system and we're emphasizing
those aspects of the practice so
that the student can learn what
those changes feel like in the
body, to develop a little more
self-awareness and a little more
centeredness in the present
moment.
And, hopefully, the end goal
with that is to maybe inform
more mindful decisions and
behavioral choices in the
moment.
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>> It brings such joy to my
life, because I've been doing
yoga since I was 25 years old.
And I found it through my own
trauma, which brought me into
yoga.
And it changed my life.
And it's amazing to see the
transformation in a student just
even from one class.
>> It's a completely new way to
look at treating trauma, and I
can't wait to watch it grow.
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>> To learn more, visit
urbanlotusproject.org.
Now here's a look at this
month's "Fun Fact."
In this segment, we travel to
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to take a
look inside the Pabst Mansion.
Completed in 1892, this
architectural marvel serves as a
time capsule of the Gilded Age.
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>> The Pabst Mansion is a
historical home located in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that
represents a lot of the
different pieces of history that
speak to the city of Milwaukee.
It is the story of German
immigrants who started an
entrepreneurial beer business
and how that contributed to the
landscape of Milwaukee during
its formative years.
>> Captain Pabst emigrates from
Germany when he was
12 years old -- 1848.
Eventually, he became a
Great Lakes steamship cabin boy
and then rose to the rank of
captain by the age of 21.
So that's why we have the name
Captain Pabst.
When he was plying the waters of
Lake Michigan, apparently, he
met his future father-in-law,
Phillip Best, who owned a small
brewery in Milwaukee, and
Phillip Best was traveling with
his young daughter, Maria Best.
They met and had a two-year
courtship and they were married
in 1862.
He invested half of his fortune
into his father-in-law's brewing
company and purchased a half
interest in the Phillip Best
Brewing Co. for $21,000, which
doesn't seem like a lot of money
today, but in those days, that
was a significant sum.
That really firmly made
Milwaukee his home base, and he
committed himself to the life of
a brewer.
By the 1880s, they pretty much
had national distribution, and
so, in 1889, they changed the
name from Best to Pabst.
The year that the name is
changed from Best Brewing Co.
to Pabst Brewing Company, you
start seeing Captain Pabst doing
a number of different things,
and one of those important
things that he did was to engage
an architect to build a large
mansion on Milwaukee's
Grand Avenue, which is, today,
West Wisconsin Avenue.
Between 1890 and 1892, the house
was built.
They moved in July of 1892.
The cost of the house was
$254,000 and just over
20,000 square feet.
So it is known as kind of the
second-largest home to have been
built in Milwaukee.
The largest was Mrs. Pabst's
sister's house, which was twice
the size of this home, which is
remarkable.
>> There are actually five
levels to the Pabst Mansion.
The first, second, and third
floor are what the family would
have utilized for entertaining
and their living spaces.
The rear side, or the north
side, of the Pabst Mansion was
the living and working spaces
for the staff here.
Those are the levels the guests
today will see.
They'll be able to see the main
areas the Pabsts would have
entertained in, their bedrooms,
their private offices and
studies here at the house, and
then also where the servants
would have eaten and helped
prepare the food for the family.
So, these three principal rooms
here on the first floor really
where guests would have spent a
lot of time with Frederick and
Maria Pabst here at the house.
Mrs. Pabst's parlor -- or the
ladies' parlor is the more
general term for it -- probably
the most formal room in the
house, the least-utilized,
actually.
It would have been just for the
ladies.
Mrs. Pabst and her daughters did
not have formal jobs, but they
did have a lot of entertainment
to do here in the house.
We're currently sitting in the
music room.
A lot of people think this could
have doubled as a gentleman's
parlor, but the family utilized
this as mostly what we would
call a living room today.
The family celebrated Christmas
in this room.
They had a daughter that was
married here in 1897, in the
music room.
And then both Frederick and
Maria Pabst's funerals were also
held here in this space.
Just to the north of the music
room here, this is the one spot
in the home -- the dining room
is -- where the family would
have entertained.
Everything, as far as
entertaining, at the home was
gonna be food-centric for the
Pabst family.
Second floor, probably the
section of the home the family
spent most of their time in when
they didn't have guests here.
You're gonna find the four
principal family members who
lived here, what we consider
year round or full time, had
their bedrooms on the second
floor.
So, a central hallway, called
the foyer, and then the bedrooms
radiate off of this.
>> Guests that come to visit the
mansion -- they're here for
maybe 10, 15 minutes and they
really, I think, are struck by
the intimacy of the house and
that this really is kind of a
family home rather than a vast
mansion.
Captain Pabst passes away on
New Year's Day 1904.
His wife remains here until her
death, in 1906, and it's
eventually purchased by the
Archdiocese of Milwaukee.
And so for almost seven decades,
almost through the entirety of
the 20th century, this was the
home of five different
archbishops.
Actually, one of the things that
saved the Pabst Mansion is that
it continued to be used as a
private residence.
And, so, in 1978, our
organization, with the help of
23 savings and loans -- I always
think that's kind of one of the
best parts of the story is that
raising the money was really
difficult, but 23 savings and
loans each wrote a $10,000
mortgage to finance the purchase
of the house.
And so we were able to do that
and opened formally for tours in
May of 1978.
When guests come to visit the
Pabst Mansion today, they're
seeing a very accurate view of,
you know, what the house was all
about it the 1890s.
We're very fortunate that the
Pabst family commissioned
Milwaukee society photographer
Simon Stein to come into the
house in 1897 and photograph two
to three views of all the
principal rooms in the house.
The Pabst family has been
extraordinarily generous in
loaning and donating original
objects back to the house, and
so the mansion's actually
repopulated with entire rooms of
original furniture and then
objects and artwork.
>> When you're walking through
the house, you experience some
unique things from our history
that set a path for where we are
today.
>> It's a house built by
Milwaukee architects for
Milwaukee clients by Milwaukee
craftsmen and, I think,
showcases Milwaukee at its very
best.
>> Discover more at
pabstmansion.com.
And here's a look at this week's
"Art History."
Through the organization
Angels and Heroes, military
families come together and
experience the craft of ranching
and farming.
We take a trip to Elizabeth,
Colorado, to meet the families
and take part in country life.
>> So, we're all gonna follow
each other down, okay?
[ Horse grunts ]
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>> How was that drive?
>> Fun.
[ Horse whinnies ]
>> We've got to get the pen set
up first so we can get the
animals off as soon as possible,
okay?
♪♪
Hey!
I'm talking about these here.
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>> There we go.
>> The day before a show?
[ Pig squealing ]
>> That needs to go outside so
that they can drink, 'cause they
can't get to it like that.
This is a two-month preparation.
Everybody here is donating their
time and everybody here has been
touched by a family member who's
been in the military.
>> Start getting them water.
>> We have people coming from
F.E. Warren up in Cheyenne.
We have people coming from
Schriever and Peterson and the
academy.
And we may have some people from
Kirkland Air Force Base, as
well.
>> Hi.
>> This event that we're having
today is to support all the
military families and their
spouses who are in the military,
those who have been deployed or
are being deployed.
>> A lot of these kids never get
to be out of the city limits or
even get to be around livestock
or horses, and so this may be
their only opportunity.
>> I started Angels and Heroes
about 2 1/2 years ago to address
this issue, to support the
military personnel and their
families, because nobody
recognizes the family, the
sacrifice they make, as well,
the wife or the husband and the
children.
>> My husband is PSTASS to
South Korea, and I'm raising
three children.
My 2-year-old toddler has severe
autism.
It's been actually really very
interesting to see, because my
son was not responding very well
at first, and then once he saw
the horses, he just lit up.
And now he's more responsive to
the other animals, so it's been
a lot of fun.
>> We came out because the EFM
program.
I think this is a good thing for
the families and the kids.
They tend to do this quite a bit
for us, and it's very welcomed.
>> Yeah?
Okay. What are those things?
[ Cow moos ]
>> But even just to touch
something that's foreign or
weird to them, I think, is good
because they're an important
part of our lifestyle.
They're a part of our food
chain.
And I think a lot of children
probably don't understand the
concepts of raising that animal
for food down the road.
>> You know, us living in D.C.
before we moved here to Colorado
about a month ago, they didn't
really didn't get to see a lot
of this stuff, so it's really
nice that the family put this on
for everyone and that they're
doing everything they do for
military families.
>> I have two Cindys here that
are preparing the food.
>> Okay.
>> Voluntarily, they cooked it.
They got everything ready for
it.
>> The Exceptional Family Member
Program -- it's a program that
is put together by the military
that helps support family
members who have family members
or children that have special
needs, whether it be physical,
neurological, or mental.
My son is -- He's 5 -- 6 years
old, actually.
He is autistic and he actually
has ADHD.
And the reason why we came here
today was because my son -- In
the past, we've gone riding
horses, and this is when he is
the most calm is when he's
actually on top of a horse.
So the equine-therapy portion of
it is the reason why we came
here.
>> What's your horse's name,
Mary Anne?
>> Willow.
>> Willow.
Now, Willow is having a little
trouble focusing when she goes
to new places.
I'm gonna come up and say hello.
Working with horses is about
like watching paint dry.
It's monotonous.
It's repetitive.
Good girl. That's a change.
Last time, she didn't want to go
that way.
>> You know, the Western
culture -- when something
happens to a neighbor, we go and
help them.
If it's rebuilding a barn, if
it's helping them go calving,
lambing, whatever, we help each
other.
That's how we make it through.
And that's what
Angels and Heroes is all
about -- helping each other make
it through.
>> That wraps it up for this
edition of "WLIW Arts Beat."
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We hope to see you next time.
I'm Diane Masciale.
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Thank you.
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