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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.32,0:00:04.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe there is beauty
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.25,0:00:08.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in hearing the voices of people\Nwho haven't been heard.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.52,0:00:10.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Drawing the Blinds," 2014]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.02,0:00:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["The Jerome Project\N(Asphalt and Chalk) III," 2014]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.57,0:00:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Beneath an Unforgiving Sun\N(From A Tropical Space)," 2020]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.50,0:00:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a complex idea,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.74,0:00:23.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the things that must be said\Nare not always lovely.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.43,0:00:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But somehow,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.95,0:00:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they're reflective of truth,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.72,0:00:33.96,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: 0,0:00:41.57,0:00:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's the aesthetic beauty of the work
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.75,0:00:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in some cases functions\Nas more of a Trojan horse.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.49,0:00:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It allows one to open their hearts\Nto difficult conversations.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.70,0:01:03.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you feel attracted to the beauty,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.32,0:01:07.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and while compelled by the technique,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.65,0:01:08.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the color,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.84,0:01:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the form or composition,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.01,0:01:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe the difficult\Nconversation sneaks up.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.91,0:01:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Billy Lee and Ona Judge\NPortraits in Tar," 2016]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.51,0:01:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really taught myself how to paint
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.53,0:01:22.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by spending time at museums
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.90,0:01:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and looking at the people that --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.24,0:01:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the artists, rather --\Nthat I was told were the masters.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.10,0:01:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking at the Rembrandts\N["The Night Watch"],
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.48,0:01:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renoir ["Luncheon of the Boating Party"],
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.47,0:01:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Manet ["Luncheon on the Grass"],
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.05,0:01:38.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it becomes quite obvious
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.39,0:01:41.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if I'm going to learn\Nhow to paint a self-portrait
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.66,0:01:43.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by studying those people,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.83,0:01:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to be challenged
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.82,0:01:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it comes to mixing my skin
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.22,0:01:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or mixing the skin\Nof those people in my family.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.81,0:01:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's literally formulas\Nwritten down historically
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.89,0:01:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell me how to paint white skin --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.78,0:02:02.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what colors I should use\Nfor the underpainting,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.48,0:02:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what colors I should use\Nfor the impasto highlights --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.06,0:02:09.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that doesn't really exist for dark skin.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.61,0:02:10.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.90,0:02:12.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a thing
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.31,0:02:17.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the reality is,\Nour skin wasn't considered beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.08,0:02:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The picture, the world that is represented\Nin the history of paintings
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.75,0:02:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't reflect me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.05,0:02:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't reflect the things\Nthat I value in that way,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.12,0:02:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's the conflict\Nthat I struggle with so frequently,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.06,0:02:40.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is, I love the technique\Nof these paintings,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.74,0:02:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have learned from the technique\Nof these paintings,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.50,0:02:49.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet I know that they have\Nno concern for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.82,0:02:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so there are so many of us\Nwho are amending this history
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.86,0:02:58.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to simply say we were there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.42,0:03:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you couldn't see\Ndoesn't mean we weren't there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.82,0:03:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have been there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.05,0:03:05.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have been here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.17,0:03:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've continued to be seen\Nas not beautiful,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.88,0:03:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we are,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.70,0:03:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.50,0:03:19.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So many of the things that I make
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.15,0:03:24.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,end up as maybe futile attempts\Nto reinforce that idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.00,0:03:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Drawing the Blinds," 2014]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.59,0:03:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Seeing Through Time," 2018]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.01,0:03:36.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though I've had the Western training,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.07,0:03:40.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my eye is still drawn\Nto the folks who look like me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.32,0:03:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so sometimes in my work,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.50,0:03:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have used strategies like whiting out\Nthe rest of the composition
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.33,0:03:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to focus on the character\Nwho may go unseen otherwise.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.17,0:03:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have cut out other figures\Nfrom the painting,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.69,0:04:02.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one, to either emphasize their absence,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.36,0:04:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or two, to get you to focus\Non the other folks in the composition.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.10,0:04:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Intravenous (From\Na Tropical Space)," 2020]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.25,0:04:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So "The Jerome Project," aesthetically,\Ndraws on hundreds of years
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.27,0:04:18.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of religious icon painting,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.93,0:04:20.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["The Jerome Project\N(My Loss)," 2014]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.87,0:04:27.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a kind of aesthetic structure\Nthat was reserved for the church,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.90,0:04:29.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reserved for saints.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.72,0:04:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Madonna and Child"]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.74,0:04:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Leaf from a Greek Psalter\Nand New Testament"]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.96,0:04:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Christ Pantocrator"]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.07,0:04:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a project that is an exploration\Nof the criminal justice system,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.32,0:04:43.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not asking the question\N"Are these people innocent or guilty?",
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.60,0:04:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but more, "Is this the way\Nthat we should deal with our citizens?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.28,0:04:51.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started a body of work,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.30,0:04:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because after being\Nseparated from my father
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.62,0:04:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for almost 15 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.32,0:05:01.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I reconnected with my father, and ...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.79,0:05:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really didn't know how\Nto make a place for him in my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.26,0:05:10.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As with most things I don't understand,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.65,0:05:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I work them out in the studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.41,0:05:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I just started making\Nthese portraits of mug shots,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.18,0:05:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting because I did\Na Google search for my father,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.20,0:05:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just wondering what had happened\Nover this 15-year period.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.09,0:05:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where had he gone?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.58,0:05:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I found his mug shot,\Nwhich of course was of no surprise.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.03,0:05:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I found in that first search\N97 other Black men
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.08,0:05:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with exactly the same first and last name,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.32,0:05:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I found their mug shots,\Nand that -- that was a surprise.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.08,0:05:42.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not knowing what to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.36,0:05:44.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just started painting them.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.00,0:05:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Initially, the tar was a formula\Nthat allowed me to figure out
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.30,0:05:53.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how much of these men's life\Nhad been lost to incarceration.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.56,0:05:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I gave up that,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.75,0:05:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the tar became far more symbolic
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.67,0:06:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I continued,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.30,0:06:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because what I realized is
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.58,0:06:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the amount of time that you spend\Nincarcerated is just the beginning
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.14,0:06:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how long it's going to impact\Nthe rest of your life.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.11,0:06:11.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in terms of beauty within that context,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.05,0:06:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know from my friend's family
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.64,0:06:18.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have been incarcerated,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.76,0:06:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are currently incarcerated,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.08,0:06:22.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,folks want to be remembered.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.59,0:06:25.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Folks want to be seen.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.00,0:06:29.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We put people away for a long time,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.39,0:06:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in some cases,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.70,0:06:32.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for that one worst thing\Nthat they've done.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.92,0:06:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to a degree,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.99,0:06:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a way of just saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.90,0:06:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.30,0:06:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see you."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.27,0:06:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that, as a gesture,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.76,0:06:47.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.05,0:06:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the painting "Behind\Nthe Myth of Benevolence,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.38,0:06:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's almost this curtain\Nof Thomas Jefferson
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.29,0:07:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,painted and pulled back\Nto reveal a Black woman who's hidden.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.36,0:07:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This Black woman is at once\NSally Hemings,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.52,0:07:10.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she's also every other Black woman
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.84,0:07:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was on that plantation Monticello
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.33,0:07:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the rest of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.05,0:07:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one thing we do know\Nabout Thomas Jefferson
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.86,0:07:20.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that he believed in liberty,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.23,0:07:25.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe more strongly than anyone\Nwho's ever written about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.98,0:07:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we know that to be true,\Nif we believe that to be true,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.08,0:07:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the only benevolent thing\Nto do in that context
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.21,0:07:36.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be to extend that liberty.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.82,0:07:38.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so in this body of work,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.65,0:07:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I use two separate paintings
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.17,0:07:48.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are forced together\Non top of one another
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.36,0:07:55.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to emphasize this tumultuous\Nrelationship between Black and White
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.33,0:07:56.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in these compositions.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.93,0:07:58.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, that --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.60,0:08:01.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that contradiction,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.43,0:08:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that devastating reality\Nthat's always behind the curtain,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.01,0:08:11.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is happening\Nin race relations in this country --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.21,0:08:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what this painting is about.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.95,0:08:22.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The painting is called\N"Another Fight for Remembrance."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.92,0:08:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The title speaks to repetition.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.12,0:08:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The title speaks to the kind of violence\Nagainst Black people
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.89,0:08:34.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the police
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.26,0:08:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has happened\Nand continues to happen,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.99,0:08:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are now seeing it happen again.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.57,0:08:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The painting is sort of editorialized\Nas a painting about Ferguson.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.54,0:08:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not not about Ferguson,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.30,0:08:56.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's also not not about Detroit,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.45,0:09:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's also not not about Minneapolis.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.67,0:09:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The painting was started because
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.99,0:09:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a trip to New York
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.13,0:09:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see some of my own art\Nwith my brother,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.82,0:09:15.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we spent hours walking\Nin and out of galleries,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.10,0:09:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we ended the day by being stopped\Nby an undercover police car
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.58,0:09:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the middle of the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.08,0:09:26.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These two police officers\Nwith their hands on their gun
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.20,0:09:27.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,told us to stop.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.39,0:09:29.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They put us up against the wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.38,0:09:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They accused me of stealing art
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.03,0:09:36.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of a gallery space\Nwhere I was actually exhibiting art.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.87,0:09:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as they stood there\Nwith their hands on their weapons,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.92,0:09:44.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked the police officer\Nwhat was different about my citizenship
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.56,0:09:47.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than that of all of the other people
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.80,0:09:51.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were not being disturbed\Nin that moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.24,0:09:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He informed me that they had been\Nfollowing us for two hours
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.82,0:10:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that they had been getting\Ncomplaints about Black men,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.41,0:10:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two Black men walking\Nin and out of galleries.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.05,0:10:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That painting is about the reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.89,0:10:10.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's not a question
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.87,0:10:15.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of if this is going to happen again,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.42,0:10:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a question of when.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.70,0:10:24.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This most recent body of work\Nis called "From a Tropical Space."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.25,0:10:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This series of paintings\Nis about Black mothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.43,0:10:34.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The series of paintings takes place\Nin a supersaturated,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.29,0:10:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe surrealist world,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.31,0:10:39.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not that far from the one we live in.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.89,0:10:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in this world,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.44,0:10:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the children of these Black women
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.70,0:10:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are disappearing.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.34,0:10:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What this work is really about\Nis the trauma,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.48,0:10:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the things that Black women\Nand women of color in particular
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.06,0:10:58.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our community
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.25,0:11:02.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to struggle through\Nin order to set their kids out
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.89,0:11:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the path of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.70,0:11:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's encouraging for me
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.03,0:11:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that this practice of mine
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.94,0:11:15.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has given me the opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.83,0:11:19.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to work with young people in my community.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.64,0:11:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm quite certain\Nthe answers are not in me,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.86,0:11:24.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if I'm hopeful at all,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.42,0:11:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's that they may be in them.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.21,0:11:31.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"NXTHVN" is a project that started\Nabout five years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.52,0:11:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NXTHVN is a 40,000-square-foot\Narts incubator
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.80,0:11:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the heart of the Dixwell neighborhood
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.99,0:11:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in New Haven, Connecticut.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.37,0:11:41.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a predominantly\NBlack and Brown neighborhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.48,0:11:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a neighborhood that has\Nthe history of jazz at every corner.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.06,0:11:51.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our neighborhood, in many ways,\Nhas been disinvested in.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.37,0:11:58.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Schools are struggling to really\Nprepare our population
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.25,0:12:00.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the futures ahead of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.55,0:12:05.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that creativity\Nis an essential asset.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.58,0:12:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It takes creativity
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.94,0:12:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to imagine a future
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.72,0:12:17.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is so different than the one\Nthat is before you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.05,0:12:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so every artist in our program\Nhas a high school studio assistant:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.06,0:12:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a high school student\Nthat comes from the city of New Haven
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.57,0:12:31.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who works with them\Nand learns their craft,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.97,0:12:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learns their practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.20,0:12:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we've seen the ways
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.27,0:12:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which pointing folks\Nat the power of creativity
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.30,0:12:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can change them.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.86,0:12:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beauty is complicated,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.73,0:12:49.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of how we define it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.10,0:12:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that beauty and truth
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.04,0:12:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are intertwined somehow.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.41,0:13:00.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is something
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.83,0:13:04.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beautiful
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.41,0:13:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in truth-telling.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.56,0:13:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is:
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.58,0:13:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that as an act, truth-telling
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.64,0:13:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the myriad ways it manifests --
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.08,0:13:19.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's beauty in that.