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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.41,0:00:04.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe there is beauty
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.25,0:00:08.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in hearing the voices of people\Nwho haven't been heard.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.25,0:00:10.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Drawing the Blinds, 2014]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.56,0:00:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The Jerome Project\N(Asphalt and Chalk III 2014)]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.39,0:00:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Beneath an Unforgiving Sun\N(from a Tropical Space), 2020]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.10,0:00:17.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a complex idea
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.21,0:00:19.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the things that must be said
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.95,0:00:23.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are not always lovely,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.71,0:00:26.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but somehow,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.17,0:00:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they're reflective of truth,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.90,0:00:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think fundamentally\Nthat makes them beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.13,0:00:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.76,0:00:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's the aesthetic beauty of the work
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.93,0:00:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in some cases functions\Nas more of a Trojan horse.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.65,0:00:56.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It allows one to open their hearts\Nto difficult conversations.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.79,0:01:03.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you feel attracted to the beauty,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.37,0:01:07.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and while compelled by the technique,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.65,0:01:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the color,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.84,0:01:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the form or composition,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.14,0:01:13.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe the difficult\Nconversation sneaks up.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.35,0:01:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Billy Lee & Ona Judge\NPortraits in Tar, 2016]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.57,0:01:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really taught myself how to paint
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.58,0:01:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by spending time at museums
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.96,0:01:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and looking at the people that --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.44,0:01:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the artists, rather, that I was\Ntold were the masters.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.22,0:01:33.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking at the Rembrandts,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.57,0:01:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renoir,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.12,0:01:36.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Manet,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.43,0:01:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it becomes quite obvious
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.01,0:01:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if I'm going to learn\Nhow to paint a self-portrait
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.76,0:01:44.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by studing those people,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.07,0:01:45.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to be challenged
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.100,0:01:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it comes to mixing my skin
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.44,0:01:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or mixing the skin\Nof those people in my family.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.03,0:01:57.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's literally formulas\Nwritten down historically
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.11,0:02:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell me how to paint white skin --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.01,0:02:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what colors I should use\Nfor the underpainting,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.74,0:02:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what colors I should use\Nfor the impasto highlights.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.23,0:02:09.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That doesn't really exist for dark skin.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.68,0:02:10.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.12,0:02:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a thing because
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.64,0:02:17.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the reality is our skin wasn't\Nconsidered beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.23,0:02:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The picture,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.23,0:02:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world that is represented\Nin the history of paintings
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.88,0:02:26.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't reflect me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.05,0:02:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't reflect the things\Nthat I value in that way,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.27,0:02:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's the conflict that I struggle\Nwith so frequently --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.20,0:02:40.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is I love the technique\Nof these paintings,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.89,0:02:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have learned from the technique\Nof these paintings,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.60,0:02:49.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet I know that they have\Nno concern for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.95,0:02:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so there are so many of us
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.52,0:02:55.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are amending this history
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.86,0:02:58.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to simply say we were there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.49,0:03:02.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you couldn't see\Ndoesn't mean we weren't there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.88,0:03:04.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have been there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.21,0:03:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have been here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.26,0:03:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've continued to be seen\Nas not beautiful,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.93,0:03:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we are,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.87,0:03:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.82,0:03:19.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So many of the things that I make
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.43,0:03:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,end up as maybe futile attempts\Nto reinforce that idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.52,0:03:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Drawing the Blinds, 2014]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.35,0:03:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Seeing Through Time, 2018]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.22,0:03:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though I've had the Western training,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.16,0:03:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my eye is still drawn\Nto the folks who look like me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.49,0:03:42.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so sometimes in my work,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.67,0:03:48.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have used strategies like whiting out\Nthe rest of the composition
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.51,0:03:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to focus on the character\Nwho may go unseen otherwise.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.27,0:03:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have cut out other figures\Nfrom the painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.75,0:04:02.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One, to either emphasize their absence,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.49,0:04:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or two, to get you to focus\Non the other folks in the composition.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.72,0:04:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Intravenous (From\Na Tropical Space), 2020]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.34,0:04:15.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So The Jerome Project aesthetically\Ndraws on hundreds of years
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.41,0:04:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of religious icon painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.61,0:04:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A kind of aesthetic structure
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.21,0:04:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was reserved for the church,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.98,0:04:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reserved for saints.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.22,0:04:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a project that is an exploration\Nof the criminal justice system.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.51,0:04:43.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not asking the question\Nare these people innocent or guilty,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.70,0:04:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but more, is this the way\Nthat we should deal with our citizens.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.40,0:04:51.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started a body of work
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.41,0:04:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because after being\Nseparated from my father
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.62,0:04:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for almost 15 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.48,0:04:59.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I reconnected with my father
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.89,0:05:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I really didn't know\Nhow to make a place for him
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.98,0:05:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.46,0:05:10.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As with most things I don't understand,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.78,0:05:12.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I work them out in the studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.56,0:05:17.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I just started making\Nthese portraits of mugshots,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.31,0:05:21.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting because I did\Na Google search for my father
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.33,0:05:24.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just wondering what had happened\Nover this 15-year period.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.23,0:05:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where had he gone?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.77,0:05:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I found his mugshot,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.09,0:05:29.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which of course was of no surprise,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.17,0:05:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I found in that first search,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.72,0:05:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,97 other Black men with exactly\Nthe same first and last name,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.40,0:05:37.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I found their mugshots,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.81,0:05:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.90,0:05:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was a surprise.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.00,0:05:42.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not knowing what to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.45,0:05:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just started painting them.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.00,0:05:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Initially, the tar was a formula\Nthat allowed me to figure out
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.44,0:05:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how much of these men's life\Nhad been lost to incarceration,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.60,0:05:55.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I gave up that,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.91,0:06:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the tar became far more\Nsymbolic as I continued,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.38,0:06:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because what I realized
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.50,0:06:05.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the amount of time that you spend\Nincarcerated is just the beginning
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.37,0:06:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how long it's going to impact\Nthat rest of your life.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.27,0:06:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in terms of beauty within that context,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.04,0:06:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know from my friend's family,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.64,0:06:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have been incarcerated,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.76,0:06:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are currently incarcerated,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.16,0:06:22.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,folks want to be remembered.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.71,0:06:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Folks want to be seen.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.21,0:06:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We put people away for a long time;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.50,0:06:30.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in some cases,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.86,0:06:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for that one worst thing\Nthat they've done.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.16,0:06:35.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to a degree,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.23,0:06:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a way of just saying ...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.08,0:06:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.42,0:06:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.43,0:06:44.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.34,0:06:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a gesture,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.87,0:06:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.16,0:06:51.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the painting "Behind\Nthe Myth of Benevolence,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.47,0:06:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's almost this curtain\Nof Thomas Jefferson
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.55,0:07:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,painted and pulled back\Nto reveal a Black woman who's hidden.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.50,0:07:07.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This Black woman is at once Sally Hemings,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.85,0:07:11.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she's also every other Black woman
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.09,0:07:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was on that plantation Monticello,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.33,0:07:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the rest of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.11,0:07:18.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one thing we do know\Nabout Thomas Jefferson
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.98,0:07:22.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that he believed in liberty ...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.31,0:07:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe more strongly than anyone\Nwho's ever written about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.13,0:07:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we know that to be true,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.64,0:07:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we believe that to be true,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.28,0:07:33.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the only benevolent thing\Nto do in that context
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.41,0:07:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be to extend that liberty.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.92,0:07:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so in this body of work,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.80,0:07:43.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I use two separate paintings
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.32,0:07:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are forced together\Non top of one another
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.42,0:07:55.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to emphasize this tumultuous\Nrelationship between Black and white
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.33,0:07:56.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in these compositions.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.93,0:07:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so that --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.60,0:08:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that contradiction,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.60,0:08:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that devastating reality\Nthat's always behind the curtain,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.16,0:08:12.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is happening\Nin race relations in this country --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.23,0:08:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what this painting is about.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.18,0:08:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The painting is called "Another\NFight for Remembrance."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.08,0:08:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The title speaks to repitition.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.27,0:08:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The title speaks to the kind of violence\Nagainst Black people
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.96,0:08:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the police
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.32,0:08:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has happened
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.90,0:08:37.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and continues to happen,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.21,0:08:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are now seeing it happen again.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.64,0:08:44.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The painting is sort of editorialized
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.83,0:08:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a painting about Ferguson.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.68,0:08:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not not about Ferguson,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.30,0:08:56.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's also not not about Detroit,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.45,0:09:00.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's also not not about Minneapolis.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.83,0:09:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The painting was started because
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.09,0:09:08.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a trip to New York
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.23,0:09:10.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see some of my own art
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.05,0:09:11.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with my brother,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.95,0:09:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we spent hours walking\Nin and out of galleries,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.20,0:09:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we ended the day by being stopped
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.07,0:09:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by an undercover police car
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.66,0:09:23.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the middle of the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.23,0:09:26.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These two police officers\Nwith their hands on their gun
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.33,0:09:27.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,told us to stop.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.56,0:09:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They put us up against the wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.54,0:09:32.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They accused me of stealing art
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.13,0:09:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of a gallery space where\NI was actually exhibiting art.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.02,0:09:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as they stood there\Nwith their hands on their weapons,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.14,0:09:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked the police officer\Nwhat was different about my citizenship
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.72,0:09:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than that of all of the other people
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.00,0:09:51.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were not being\Ndisturbed in that moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.30,0:09:55.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He informed me that they\Nhad been following us for two hours,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.100,0:10:00.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that they had been getting\Ncomplaints about Black men --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.51,0:10:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two Black men walking\Nin and out of galleries.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.15,0:10:08.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That painting is about the reality
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.89,0:10:11.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's not a question
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.87,0:10:16.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of if this is going to happen again,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.54,0:10:18.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a question of when.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.89,0:10:24.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This most recent body of work\Nis called "From a Tropical Space."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.35,0:10:28.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This series of paintings\Nis about Black mothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.64,0:10:34.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The series of paintings takes place\Nin a supersaturated,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.51,0:10:36.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe surrealist world
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.52,0:10:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not that far from the one we live in.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.00,0:10:41.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in this world,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.64,0:10:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the children of these Black women
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.77,0:10:47.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are disappearing.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.43,0:10:52.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What this work is really about is trauma.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.57,0:10:57.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The things that Black women\Nand women of color in particular
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.15,0:10:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our community
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.34,0:11:02.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to struggle through\Nin order to set their kids out
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.89,0:11:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the path of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.74,0:11:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's encouraging for me
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.24,0:11:13.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that this practice of mine
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.14,0:11:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has given me the opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.83,0:11:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to work with young people in my community.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.72,0:11:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm quite certain\Nthe answers are not in me,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.94,0:11:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if I'm hopeful at all,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.50,0:11:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's that they may be in them.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.37,0:11:31.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NXTHVN is a project that started\Nabout five years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.68,0:11:34.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And NXTHVN is a 40,000-square-foot\Narts incubator in the heart
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.80,0:11:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the heart of the Dixwell neighborhood
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.12,0:11:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in New Haven, Connecticut.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.56,0:11:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a predominantly\NBlack and Brown neighborhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.54,0:11:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a neighborhood that has\Nthe history of jazz at every corner.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.16,0:11:52.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our neighborhood in many ways\Nhas been disinvested in.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.60,0:11:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Schools are struggling to really\Nprepare our population
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.07,0:12:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the futures ahead of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.65,0:12:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that creativity\Nis an essential asset.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.66,0:12:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It takes creativity
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.05,0:12:14.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to imagine a future
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.87,0:12:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is so different than the one\Nthat is before you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.15,0:12:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so every artist in our program\Nhas a high school studio assistant.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.18,0:12:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a high school student\Nthat comes from the city of New Haven
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.80,0:12:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who works with them\Nand learns their craft,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.14,0:12:34.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learns their practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.29,0:12:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we've seen the ways
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.27,0:12:41.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which pointing folks\Nat the power of creativity
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.35,0:12:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can change them.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.02,0:12:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beauty is complicated\Nbecause of how we define it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.15,0:12:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that beauty and truth
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.14,0:12:59.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are intertwined somehow.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.55,0:13:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something beautiful\Nin truth-telling.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.63,0:13:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is --
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.82,0:13:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that as an act, truth-telling,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.80,0:13:17.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the myriad ways it manifests.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.17,0:13:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's beauty in that.