EP122: Art Center | Kailey Diaz & August

[00:00:00] Speaker A: You guys ready? [00:00:00] Speaker B: Yeah, ready. [00:00:01] Speaker A: All right. What's going on, y'? All? Corpus Christi Originals back at it again. I'm here with August and Kaylee from the art centers. Hey, what's up? [00:00:07] Speaker B: Hey, how are y' all doing? [00:00:08] Speaker C: Hi, folks. [00:00:10] Speaker A: Yeah, so I guess we. What do we do? We did. Did we call, respond through email, or how do we get started on this? [00:00:16] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I. I joined you a long, long time ago on a podcast and got started here, and we were talking about kind of getting out there a little bit more, and I. I knew that I had to reach out to you, so I think I just hit you up on Facebook, was like, hey, how's it going? Come hang out at the art center sometime. Yeah. [00:00:32] Speaker A: Your. Your 50 states of terror was a podcast you were on, right? [00:00:36] Speaker B: Yeah, my husband and I were doing 50 States of Terror. We talked about Cryptids and spooky stories [00:00:40] Speaker A: all across the U.S. super sweet audio, man. When. When I listened to it, I was like, damn this. I could fold clothes and listen to this. It was so cool. Were you. Aren't you a singer? [00:00:50] Speaker B: So I sang in school. [00:00:51] Speaker A: Not since I knew it was something like that. [00:00:53] Speaker B: I was like, don't. Don't catch. Don't catch me at karaoke. Did. I've always been into music, and when we were doing podcasting, it was my excuse to really get into kind of like, sound design, playing with those elements. And then I really like public speaking, so I did debate and theater in school, and so now it's all kind of paying off in my 30s. [00:01:13] Speaker A: That's what's up. And August, are you from Corpus? [00:01:15] Speaker C: I was born here, but I grew up in Maryland. My dad was in the military, so he was stationed in Norfolk, and we just. We grew up there, and then he retired there, but we stayed until I was 18, and then we moved back to Corpus. [00:01:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:29] Speaker C: Family. Yeah. [00:01:29] Speaker A: That's so cool. I'm looking at your nose ring, and I hope people can see it there, but the microphone might be covering it. [00:01:34] Speaker C: Let me see. [00:01:39] Speaker B: You do have a really cool look. [00:01:41] Speaker A: Thanks. [00:01:41] Speaker C: Yeah, I try my best. Fun fact about this nose ring. It's stuck in there. I cannot get it out. [00:01:46] Speaker A: Are you serious? Oh, shoot. [00:01:47] Speaker C: It's the same one I got when I got the piercing. Style is forever. It really is. [00:01:52] Speaker B: It really is. Pain is beauty. [00:01:54] Speaker A: All of it. Yeah. I had. Had one on my eye. Oh, man. A minute back. [00:01:58] Speaker B: Jesus. No. [00:01:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I did. [00:02:00] Speaker B: I need to see a photo right here. [00:02:01] Speaker A: I have my graduation photo. I have it on there. [00:02:04] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:02:04] Speaker A: And Then I have both ears pierced, and I had to take them off because I work in the refineries and stuff. [00:02:09] Speaker B: I lost my facial piercings. I have my septum and, like, my nose and. [00:02:12] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:02:13] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [00:02:13] Speaker A: I love piercings. Yeah, for sure. For sure. [00:02:15] Speaker B: I got out of that phase, so. [00:02:16] Speaker A: So. So we're here at the lovely arts center, second floor, which is the place that I. We had our marriage reception up here, my wife and I. I heard sweets. Yes, yes. It's so awesome up here. The view is nice. And I. We pass by the art center, like, all the time. A lot of people do, and really don't know what's going on here. So that's why you guys are here, so we can understand a little bit more what's going on down here. [00:02:40] Speaker B: We have so much going on at the art center. I'm excited for the opportunity. So I'm really excited that August is with me, because August is in charge of education, and we have so many classes. So I think the first thing that's really important to note is that the art center is a nonprofit. So we're a 401C3. 501C3. [00:02:57] Speaker C: I was like, that's. [00:02:58] Speaker B: I know. I know. Nappers. I do. We're a 501C3. And our mission is to promote education and promote, like, the location for people to be able to. I talk with my hands too much. I just noticed. So our. Our mission is to promote local artists, and whether that's with education or whether that is displaying their art, selling their art, providing community networking, there's so many different ways that you can do that. So our classes, I want to say, is probably the easiest way to really get in here and, like, find a place and find a way to get involved. So some of the classes we have. We have some coming up that are. [00:03:36] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, we've. We've got a ton of classes coming up. I think I have a little less than 50 classes on our website right now. If that's wrong. [00:03:43] Speaker A: Wow, that's cool. No, that's dope. [00:03:45] Speaker C: I coordinate with at least 30 instructors to provide a bunch of different art classes. So we've got things like coffee painting, things like ceramics, acrylic painting, oil painting, pretty much almost every medium that I can think of that we have. It's really something truly special, getting to coordinate with all these artists who come and teach people their craft, and it's a really good way to get involved and to meet other people with the community. [00:04:11] Speaker A: Okay. So the artists that have their stuff Displayed here. [00:04:14] Speaker B: Teach. [00:04:16] Speaker C: Not every one of them. Some of them are. They're all from around the area. So you've got some from Port A, Portland. They don't always exhibit their artwork, but they do get really excited because a lot of them will come to me and want to teach, and they have no idea that they can exhibit their artwork in the art center. [00:04:31] Speaker A: Wow, that's so cool. Like. And they can sell it. Sell it, too. From here. [00:04:35] Speaker B: Yeah. So all of the artwork that we display is going to be for sale. And of course, there's going to be an exception to every rule. Very recently, we had the dresses, the gowns from Lana. Yeah, the public can't buy those. Sorry. Those have already been purchased. However, we just exhibited or we just had a reception for our new exhibits. So we currently have hermosas here with their mural work downstairs and their riso prints. And then we also had an call for entry for Coastal Bend Community. All of that art is currently for sale. So cool. We have a members gallery. All of that work will always be for sale. As soon as you walk in, you're coming down the halls of the art center. If you're not familiar, you haven't been here before. As you come down the hallway, there's art all down the halls. That's our members gallery. It's always for sale. It's always South Texas local artists. I think it's such a unique opportunity that I wish I would have come down here a lot earlier. I feel like I would have been here a lot more if I had made a visit earlier on. [00:05:31] Speaker A: Yeah, we don't. A lot of us don't think about, like, having local art in our homes. We just go to Hobby Lobby or something like that and buy whatever's there and put it on our walls. You know what I mean? I. I guess awareness is what I'm thinking, you know? [00:05:44] Speaker B: Right. And. And it's funny because, like, it is so much easier to go and just buy retail art. And I always think about people who joke about, we need weird art. We don't need dentist art. Like, we. We do have. We have some weird art here, definitely for you. We've got a surrealism exhibit coming up soon, so we're about to get real weird. As exhibit coordinator, I've already seen the art that's going to go out, so I can tell you it's going to be so excited. Really good. I'm not telling anybody what's. What I've seen so far, but yeah, we have. We have all of the. The art There. But you have to consider that the stores are making things that are inspired by artists. Oh, so trends are happening. And of course trends are going to happen. Yeah. Like, that's just the way of the world these days. But setting those trends are going to be the real artists that are in shops like this, those bigger corporations, the companies, like, they are seeing what real artists are doing because that's what people want and they're making it. So if you're seeing it at the store, there's a really good chance that you're going to see something very similar or comparable. [00:06:42] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:06:43] Speaker B: And with local artists, we also have a variety of price points as well. A variety of mediums, a variety of expertise levels, a variety of price points. I've not come in here and seen the shelves and been like, I couldn't pick something up and take a gift home of some kind, Something for myself every time I'm in here. [00:07:02] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. You bring up a topic that I talk about sometimes on my podcast, AI August. Do you understand? I mean, what's your take on that as far as, like, you being the educator or that aspect of it and the actual person creating the art, as opposed to, like a machine creating the art for you? Do you dabble into that type of stuff or. [00:07:22] Speaker C: I'm not super supporter of AI. I definitely think that it could be a tool to be used if it were a little bit more ethical as far as data centers and everything like that. But as far as using it as a tool myself, I think I thought it was cool at first, but I think using AI for me personally was something that took away from my own creativity. I think it's wonderful to find inspiration from what other artists do. I don't think that I would be using it in the future. [00:07:53] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. And Kaylee, obviously you had an opinion. We talked about this before. [00:07:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll keep my opinions tame. I would say that my opinions on AI have to end at a certain point because what I do professionally, I try not to use AI for any of my creative outlets. Like, echoing what August was saying, I try and find creative inspiration from other people, from other artists. But there is. How do you say, there is a learning curve that has to happen everywhere because just how I practice my art isn't going to be the same way that the next person practices their art. And my opinions cannot invalidate anyone else's art. So I will say that my opinion is ever evolving. But I do think that generative AI doesn't necessarily have a place in Original artworks. [00:08:43] Speaker A: Okay. [00:08:44] Speaker B: Is that fair to say? [00:08:45] Speaker C: I would absolutely agree with you, and it's really fair. I think that in such a digital world that we live in today, it is so easy to fall back on creating with generative AI And I think in that we're losing the connection and the community with local artists. I mean, for the classes that we do here, a huge part of that is connecting with other artists and learning from them. And I think that with the rise of AI, it is just something that we are losing and I think is suffering from it. [00:09:13] Speaker B: And. But I think that also opens up such an awesome opportunity for places like the Art center, because we're a physical place. We have this beautiful location. Like, I know. I know the camera can't see all the way around, but, like, there's a vaulted ceiling in here. These aren't the only windows. We have seven total galleries. If you count them up individually or all the studios and galleries together, we have seven locations. That's a lot of places to meet people. That's a lot of places to do art together. And I would love to see some new faces down here. I'm the newest face. Like, I keep saying I'm the new king, but, like, as the newest face down here, I think it's really exciting to get kind of just like, some. Some fresh. Fresh takes, fresh ideas. Because I think when you take the fresh and the new and you pair it with the experienced and, like, it's like the silver and gold analogies, I think you get some really sparkling results. So I'd love to see some. Some new artists come down here, maybe find some mentorship with our current artists. I know we've got some of our folks, like Kenneth Hannah. He does plein air painting. And you'll catch him up and down the seawall all through the week. He's always inviting, like, hey, how's it going? He's always wanting to engage in conversation. He does classes as well. [00:10:26] Speaker C: He hasn't done a class yet, but I think he does have a group here. [00:10:28] Speaker B: Kenneth, do a class. This is me telling you, if you catch Kenneth, I want a class. I want to go do plein air painting outside. [00:10:35] Speaker A: This is your guardian angel, your grainy to little. [00:10:39] Speaker B: So I think. I think going from that. That discussion automatically takes us into. It's like, it's community. It's space, reality. [00:10:47] Speaker C: It's. [00:10:47] Speaker B: It's here and it's in here. [00:10:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:49] Speaker A: I don't think AI is ever going to replace that, like, having actual communion with community, with person next to you. You know what I mean? The live performance is not going to replace live performance because you have actual humans playing music or performing comedy or whatever the arts that art might be. Was I thinking about, oh, you're saying you wanted different people in here. How do you guys. How do y' all go about doing that? I know a lot of it is word of mouth, especially in our community. Like, families know other families, and they know of the art center. So how do you get the. How do you think? What's the challenge in, like, getting those new people eyes over here? You know what I mean? [00:11:26] Speaker C: Definitely. I am somebody who struggles talking to people in general, but I think a huge part of what we all do is word of mouth is greeting guests as they come in and telling them a little bit about what we do, because a lot of them are really curious. They've never been here before. They've never seen this building, and they want to know what we do, and they go and they tell their friends everything that we have to offer because it is really special, and it's something, I think, that is a hidden gem right now for Corpus. [00:11:52] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. [00:11:53] Speaker B: So we have about 200,000 visitors come through our doors every year. [00:11:57] Speaker A: That's amazing. [00:11:57] Speaker B: That is a wild amount of bodies to come through. You know, it honestly, it's so shocking that I forgot why I was telling you that statistic. I was just thinking about how many people actually come through here. What was the question? [00:12:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I know how you. How. What's the plan in going about getting those. Those new faces? [00:12:15] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I talk a lot, and I'll talk to anybody. [00:12:18] Speaker A: That's why we're here. This is a podcast. [00:12:20] Speaker B: I was like, I've got some folks that have come in, apparently when I'm not here, and they're like, oh, yeah, we were talking to Kaylee, and so I literally hand my business card out. I have a stack in my purse, and I'm like, hi. Have you heard about the art center? Hi. Have you heard? And now I'm doing it so much that I'm calling podcasts. And I'm like, hi. That's cool about the art center. [00:12:39] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. [00:12:40] Speaker B: I'm doing my best by. By doing what I want to see. I want to see community. I want to see people getting together. I want people to enjoy art. I want people to get together and do it. And I think that the best way to do that is by demonstrating that and, like, being what I want to see out there. So I'm just trying to be the friendliest that I can, which is, you know, easier some days than others. But no, just being friendly and putting it out there and telling my friends, sharing invites, reposting classes, things like that. So now we're going to be moving into hopefully like doing some hangouts with some podcasts. [00:13:14] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Word of mouth seems like it's still there for advertisement. [00:13:18] Speaker B: It really is. [00:13:19] Speaker A: And then like social media too. Like, do you have a social media page? Are you present on there? You know what I mean? [00:13:25] Speaker C: Yes, we are very present on Facebook and Instagram. Our Facebook is Art Center Corpus Christi. I On our Facebook you'll see a lot of like flyers and ads, mostly for classes. A lot of flyers and ads for our other community events. All of us in our separate departments, we all are responsible for creating all of our social media content. So all the flyers you see for all the classes, all the flyers you see for community events, that's all made by us and it does take a while. We are all very driven and passionate about what we do for the community. [00:13:53] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's cool. That's cool. And you've been here for what you said three year anniversary? [00:13:58] Speaker C: Yeah, just passed my three year anniversary earlier. [00:14:00] Speaker B: Congratulations. [00:14:01] Speaker A: That's cool. And then I saw clay studio on your shirt. So clay studio, what does that entail? Like, I know you got to do kilns and whatever the heck that stuff is. [00:14:11] Speaker C: So our clay studio is a place for people who are into ceramics or beginners and experienced alike to come together and basically create and learn from each other and really have a great time just doing artwork in ceramics. I mean it's. We've got three electric kilns, one gas kiln. Our wonderful clay studio technician Adam mixes our glazes in house. We have stroke and coats. We've have, we have all these ceramic tools available for people of the public to come get a membership and just start creating. And I see people who get a three month membership just for the summer and they create and it's memorable and then they go back to whatever they do when it's not summer. I've seen people here who've been here for years and years and they love it and it's, it's definitely a part of the community I didn't know existed when I first got here, but I'm so, so glad that I know of it now. And before I started working here, I had no idea what ceramics was and I never really thought to dabble in it. And about a year into working here, I got a membership and I started Creating. And it's definitely been a very special and wonderful experience. [00:15:15] Speaker A: That's amazing. That's amazing, man. Yeah, go ahead. [00:15:18] Speaker B: I'm just jealous because I haven't done my orientation class yet, and I really want to get in that ceramic studio. I see everyone, like, artists, and they're working all the time. So whenever I'm going through, like, the exhibits and, like, I don't know, checking on things, checking on people, maybe walking someone around, I'm always jealous because I see people over there working on the coolest crafts. Like, I think Vanessa has, like, this. This octopus that she's working on right now with, like, a large basin. Liz always has some amazing pieces. [00:15:45] Speaker C: Would you believe that Vanessa just started ceramics maybe earlier this year? [00:15:49] Speaker B: That is bonkers. [00:15:50] Speaker C: Insane. [00:15:51] Speaker B: Absolutely. She's one of our regular artists. Like, we have shelves with smaller wares on it, and she's one of our regular. [00:15:57] Speaker A: She. Make your own coffee cup, man. That's freaking awesome. [00:15:59] Speaker C: Shout out to Vanessa Spitler. She's also an instructor here, so you can take a class from her. [00:16:04] Speaker B: Yes, yes. [00:16:05] Speaker A: She makes. She specializes in that. [00:16:06] Speaker C: Is that what you're talking about? So right now, she specializes in acrylic painting. So she does her acrylic paint. Poor classes. She makes jewelry. She's starting to eb into ceramics. So she's going to be teaching a summer camp here where one day is going to be focused on ceramics for the little kids. And I cannot wait to see what they come up. [00:16:20] Speaker A: Yeah, that's amazing, man. I got two little kids myself. [00:16:23] Speaker B: Yeah, kids are the best at art. Like, really, like, the ability to play, I think we've discussed a couple times. I feel that anybody can truly be an artist. Like, being an artist is the ability to play. And you can look up who said the quote, and I butchered it, but it is a good quote. When you become an adult, you kind of forget how to play. And I think the best artists I know are probably the silliest people in life. Like, there might be really dark art, but so far as, like, their personalities, they can play might be dark, but they make sense. [00:16:54] Speaker A: Like, that creativity, that part of your mind that we, for a lot of us, forget about as we go to work and have families and stuff. Yeah, exactly. And, like, who. Who remembers that, like, ceramics is a part of art? You just think in paint most of the times, or drawing, you know. [00:17:10] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, it's a. You know, it's. It's. It's kind of wild because I've never seen another medium that brings out such unbridled confidence in people. Ceramics is something that brings out just confidence, curiosity and creativity in everybody. And I'm surprised that it's not more ingrained in our society. [00:17:30] Speaker A: You see what I'm saying? Yeah, exactly. And I wish it was more, but it just not. It's just not. It's weird. It's like those things that we want in art to be a part of our lives that are not. [00:17:40] Speaker C: I think people have this notion that it's unobtainable. And I think a lot of people, unfortunately, there's gatekeeping when it comes to ceramics, but it's really not like that here. There are a lot of our members here who just started and they're coming out with all these really different and cool things. And the community really supports, supports each other. I mean, we have artists who just started a couple months ago who are selling their artwork now on shelves. [00:18:05] Speaker A: Wow, that's cool. [00:18:06] Speaker C: And there's only. I mean, you have to be bad at something to get good at something. So I mean that's the first step in anything in life. So I think that really anybody can come in and create and reach that level of starting to sell your work here as well. [00:18:21] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll talk about that. Like price points and stuff. And one more thing I wanted to mention. [00:18:25] Speaker C: Shoot. [00:18:25] Speaker A: I always forget. Oh, you mentioned memberships. So you can get a membership to the Art Center. What was that? What's that process like? Or what? [00:18:32] Speaker C: So there's a couple different memberships for the Art Center. You can have a. Just a regular art center membership where you get to show your work in our members gallery, which Kaylee can tell you a little bit more about that. [00:18:44] Speaker A: That's cool. [00:18:45] Speaker C: But for ceramics specifically, there's a three month membership and a two month and a one year membership. And all it takes is really signing up for our clay studio orientation class. You'll get to know how the tools work, all of our policies. You kind of get the boring stuff out of the way first so then you can have a little bit of fun. It's about like a two hour class and the first you only have to take it once. And it covers the first three months of your clay studio membership. So I would highly recommend taking a look into it, especially for something just for the summer. [00:19:14] Speaker A: That's pretty cool. [00:19:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:19:15] Speaker B: So far as memberships and like what I do as the exhibits coordinator, so I have a members only gallery. So I do rotations for that gallery. And you can make whatever kind of art you want, whether that's painting, whether that is sculpture. Whether that I think I have bronze casting right now downstairs. Yes, the Buffalo. I have jewelry. I have all sorts of things that can be like restocked. We can do all sorts of maintenance on those items. But then we also have our main galleries like our Meadows, the Kachera and the Locket Gallery. A lot of those will have call for entries and you do not have to be a member for all of them. But we will have some members only galleries. [00:19:56] Speaker A: Yeah, call for entry. [00:19:57] Speaker B: So there are a couple terms that if you haven't submitted with a gallery before would be new art terms. So a call for entry is when I say, hey, I am doing surrealism. We're going to have a surrealism exhibit. Show me your artwork and submit what you're working on or what you finished to me. And so they send in a photo and I just make sure that we are following the decency guidelines. You had your wedding reception here. We have a lot of kids here. We have quinceaneras here. We do have to make sure that everything on the walls is appropriate to be seen by anybody who might Visit us. All 200,000 of them. So whenever they submit the photo to me, that's all I'm looking for. Is this going to be something that's going to highly, highly offend? If it's good to go, oh well. And it's accepted, it meets the prompt, all of the things are happy. Then you come and you bring your art to me and I put it on the wall. And all of that is of course entailed like whether the membership or submission fee that can change from exhibit to exhibit. But it's a lot more accessible than people think. And I think sometimes especially as someone who is a full time artist, it wasn't in the fine art world. I didn't exactly know what a call for injury was at one point in my life. So if anyone is thinking about submitting but they're intimidated, don't, please don't be intimidated. My name is Kaylee, come see me in my office. You can submit with me. I will walk you through every process. I'll write it down, I'll make notes for you. I'll help you get it in. [00:21:23] Speaker A: Cool. So. So you help artists get their artwork in here. Exhibit coordinator, right? [00:21:28] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:21:28] Speaker A: So you help them get the. How does the. Their pricing. I know that that question came up when I was looking on chat GPT for some questions to ask you guys [00:21:37] Speaker B: donate before you come and talk to us. Jesus. [00:21:41] Speaker A: But, but price point I guess like do you like tell Them. Hey, well these are, this, this is the price. No, no. [00:21:46] Speaker B: Okay, so I think. And maybe there's a more official answer. So August, please correct me if I'm wrong. So we do not advise on pricing. With art, pricing is so personal, independently determined. So one person might take a $1 canvas and $5 paints and that may be worth a different amount than if someone got a $500 canvas, has zero experience, had a thousand dollars worth of paints, didn't know what they were doing. So I would say that it's not my place to tell someone what their art is worth to put a financial price point on it. So it is completely up to the artist to set their own prices. I would say just be mindful. As with anywhere that sells art, we do have a split with you. So I would mark it up a little bit higher than what you initially think just to make sure that you're getting exactly how much you want. [00:22:36] Speaker A: Nice. Yeah, obviously there's galleries and you got to figure out how because you guys are non profit and you got to figure out how the monies keep the lights on, stuff like that. You know what I mean? So that makes sense to allow them to show their, their exhibits. [00:22:49] Speaker B: Absolutely. And if we don't have hidden like extra tack on, tack on, tack on fees, you have to have a membership for members gallery that is kind of in the name and then the standard is 70, 30 for everywhere. When I'm selling my art, that's pretty much what I expect to see out and about in town. [00:23:04] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:23:05] Speaker B: Okay. [00:23:05] Speaker C: So 70 to the artist. [00:23:07] Speaker B: 70 to the artist. Yes. We're not monsters. But knowing what kind of foot traffic is here, especially tourists come in, they want to see local art, they want to purchase local art. Yeah, I mean people, I, I'm honestly blown away like being here as much as I am now. Like with my day to day, it's so encouraging to see people come in and say I want local art. I travel and I, I always hit an art center, an art museum, or I try and find local art wherever I go. Like we're the place that people are going for that and that's, I feel like that that is a beautiful opportunity for local artists. [00:23:41] Speaker A: Yeah, no kidding. That makes me think about like, because I'm his Mexican American or whatever. Sorry, I was thinking about something. I'm thinking about like Chicano art and different types of art and stuff like that. How does, do you look at that whenever you're getting stuff coming in or [00:23:58] Speaker B: do I see a lot of like Mexican art? [00:23:59] Speaker A: Yeah, either that or yeah, yeah, I [00:24:01] Speaker B: want to see more. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Okay. [00:24:02] Speaker C: Yeah. I was like. [00:24:02] Speaker B: Is that if that's a fair answer? I was like, however much I'm getting, I want to see more. [00:24:05] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:24:06] Speaker B: So we have, I would say we have right now we have Hermosa downstairs, so a Latina based group of three women. And you can definitely see, like, the influence that culture has, like, on their work. We had a discussion with the ladies the other night, and they were. Honestly, they were so cool. They were so nice. [00:24:24] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:24:25] Speaker B: We have some murals upstairs outside as well that are by a Latino artist and his name is escaping me at the moment. I would love to see more, like, more Mexican art. Absolutely. Send it my way. I want to see. [00:24:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I know for sure. Like, and. And I. I guess growing up here, I. I want to say that my, like, Mexican is in there, but I never really studied that, you know what I mean? Because I remember painting like in middle school or something like that, and I just got inspiration from a magazine, another painting. Okay, that looks cool. Let me do that. You know what I mean? [00:25:01] Speaker C: So is that. [00:25:03] Speaker B: To me. [00:25:04] Speaker A: So is that Mexican American? You know what I mean? I guess I'm getting into, like, the weeds of like, as far as, like the different styles of art, you know, stuff like that. [00:25:12] Speaker B: When we get into styles, I think I'd have to see what you're looking at to see exactly if we're answering the question that you're looking. [00:25:19] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like how you categorize it. If, like, if I draw something that maybe look like, I don't know, like Indian or Indian or whatever. Like that, like Indian, like, not Native American, but I guess. Yeah, you know what I mean? Do you consider that Indian? You know what I mean? [00:25:35] Speaker B: So I think, I think subject and style can be two different conversations. Maybe, like, I think that you could have an image of Ganesh, so like in like an Indian image, and you could do it in a Mexican style if you wanted to. So you could take some of like those colors and kind of like the bold imagery or like, depending on. On how it's painted or how it's sewn or how. [00:25:56] Speaker A: Okay, yeah, that makes sense. [00:25:57] Speaker B: So I would say subject versus style might be different, but subject or style. I would love to see some more Mexican art in my inbox for sure. [00:26:04] Speaker A: That's awesome. [00:26:05] Speaker B: Yeah, that's cool. We. And like, just. Just to think on that, when I, when I mentioned, like, different styles that we do, we recently had a Fiber Inform show. So I want to stress to people that, like, if you make anything, you have a place. [00:26:19] Speaker A: Wow, that's awesome. [00:26:19] Speaker B: So if you're a quilter. We recently had so Benita. She submitted with us her quilts. I'm like, I'm pulling. I'm like, trying to remember every piece that's been in our. In our galleries since I started. [00:26:33] Speaker C: So I don't always get into. [00:26:34] Speaker B: We've had needle felting. What'd you say? [00:26:36] Speaker C: I don't always get into the exhibits. I'm usually just typing away my computer. [00:26:40] Speaker B: Okay, listen, August is maybe a little more tied down and I'm supposed to be over there a little bit bit more. So I'm definitely looking at every. Every piece and title. Oh, but we have. Yeah, we have so many different things and I would love to see. I want to see some weird stuff. I'm not going to lie. I. I want to see some. [00:26:57] Speaker A: Define weird stuff. [00:26:58] Speaker B: I want to see some appropriately weird things. I want to see, you know, when you're scrolling at TikTok and 2. At 2 in the morning, I don't know what everybody's al looks like. Mine is usually nerdy and artsy. So I see. I see people making acrylic nail sets that have more artistry in them that I've put into canvases. I have seen. I mean, August, your partner makes Perler bead pieces. Like, there's all sorts of, like, creative designs with that. Like, I want to see. I want to see some different stuff. I want to. Of course. I love my fine art. I love my oils. Nobody get upset with me. I. I love everything that's happening. I think. I think variety is going to spice a life. [00:27:39] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, absolutely. And I can't tell you how many of the, like, weird things sold over the beautifully crafted oil painted like it is. There's a lot of people who truly appreciate the weird and odd art out there. [00:27:54] Speaker B: And then we have people who come in and they're like, I am looking for a piece to go over my mantle. It can be no smaller than. And you know, they are looking for fine art. So being where we're located downtown, I mean, literally, we're the only building this close. [00:28:09] Speaker A: What's the address? What's the address? [00:28:11] Speaker B: Our address. [00:28:11] Speaker C: 100 North Shoreline Boulevard. [00:28:13] Speaker A: 100. [00:28:14] Speaker B: I thought we were going to be twinsies and I forgot north. [00:28:18] Speaker A: It reminds me of a set glass. Have y' all heard of her? [00:28:22] Speaker B: Yes. I've set up next to her at vendor events before. Actually, I think I have it. I might have a necklace Shout out. Hey, set glass. [00:28:28] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [00:28:29] Speaker B: Oh, man, I just, I kind of missed you on my little vendor markets. So if you've met me at a vendor market, you should come to the art center now. This is where we're all hanging out. [00:28:38] Speaker A: Oh. So okay, that, that brings the, the food market. What do y' all have? [00:28:42] Speaker B: We have a farmer's market every Wednesday. [00:28:44] Speaker A: Yeah, tell us about that. [00:28:45] Speaker C: We do, it's, it's something really cool. So every Wednesday from 5pm to 8pm we have a farmer's market. We've got a bunch of local vendors who sell food. They sell jewelry or different kinds of artwork. We do it with Grow local. So thank you, grow Local for doing all this. And during farmer's market, we also have our free family art time, which is a about two hour art activity for kids and people really of all ages to come and make the little craft of the week. So we've done little paper, we do a lot of little paper crafts, a lot of painting crafts. I mean it's completely free. We provide all the, all the supplies, all the instruction. It's self led. So you guys can come in and [00:29:22] Speaker B: do it together, help each other. [00:29:24] Speaker C: We do have a facilitator who is there to help but help each other community spend time together. [00:29:29] Speaker B: That's how they got me down here, wrangled me down here because I was like cute crafts with kids. And I actually, I brought my kiddo, my youngest kiddo down here. Actually one of my friends is an artist here and I came to one of their receptions. They had submitted to one of the main galleries and we were walking around and my kiddo just had too much energy and I was dreading being at the art center with my kid with too much energy. And all of a sudden I saw a little table and there was an employee sitting there like, hey, would you like to come over? And we got to go in and do a craft. And it gave my kiddo something to do with their hands for long enough that my husband stayed with kiddo and I got to go over to the gallery. So like, yeah, an adult has to be with the kiddo. But if, you know, you're going over to just say hi and you know, pop by. Yeah, it was, it was a great opportunity and I'm very, I'm very thankful y' all have had a family art time so I could end up down here too. [00:30:23] Speaker C: That's how I started here at the art center was I worked as a family art time facilitator. Having no experience working with Children. I still don't know how to talk to kids, but it was very fun getting to, to help kids work on art projects. And a lot of them will come up. Like a four year old will come up and show me, look what I did. And I'll be like, that looks great. I don't know what else to say, but it looks really good. [00:30:44] Speaker B: You're so much better now. [00:30:46] Speaker C: I, I try really hard. [00:30:47] Speaker B: You've made so much progress. I'm so proud of you. [00:30:49] Speaker C: I still am. Every time I see a kid I'm [00:30:52] Speaker B: like, take the compliment taxes. [00:30:55] Speaker A: You're like, here's some candy. Candy. Just candy. That's, that's, that's the love language right there. Yeah. So what's your background in, in art? Are you. Do you have a background in art? [00:31:06] Speaker C: I do. So I dabble in a little bit. I draw, I paint. I. Right now for the past year and a half I've been really focused on ceramics and polymer clay. A little bit more on the polymer clay aspect because ceramics is a little scary to me. But yeah, I make like jewelry, I make sculptures. I really want to dabble more into like the fantasy kind of setting for, for my polymer clay. I have not always been an artist, but it wasn't until it really was something that was born of fidgeting. I fidget constantly. You probably watch this back. I'm like touching on my painting. [00:31:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:44] Speaker C: But really I would just fidget with a bag of clay that my partner had brought home and I started shaping it into different shapes and just absentmindedly started making little things and, and I just do that to this day because it's something to do with my hands and I really enjoy it. [00:31:58] Speaker A: So cool. It reminds me of. I'm a freaking nerd. I used to do those. I used to do those little model cars. You glue them together, paint them and stuff like that. [00:32:07] Speaker B: My husband's shopping for one right now. Yeah, him and the, the older kiddo are about to do a model car. I didn't even know that they stole sold though. [00:32:15] Speaker A: Oh, this is so cool. [00:32:16] Speaker B: No, I'm kidding. [00:32:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I used to work at the Islander Art Gallery when I went to TAMU CC. Probably like 20, like 11 or something like that or 2010. Anyway, like. And then I was invited to the. One of the art shows like to help out over there at the island. And you can like, if you go to those galleries and you just look at like you can just zone out on one painting for like minutes at a time. It's amazing that cult the culture. [00:32:40] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:32:41] Speaker A: You know what I mean? Like art, our culture, just the people around it is. Is amazing, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I feel like we're all like. Like we have our own little groups and stuff like that. It seems like y' all are like, inviting, like, hey, come check out our group. Come check this out. You know what I mean? [00:32:54] Speaker B: I feel like we're all different art. Like we're all artists, but we're all like. We're all just different flavors. [00:32:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:59] Speaker B: You know, like, same. Same product, different flavor. It's just like once we. Once we get in somewhere, we just start bringing in the other artists and start bringing in. That's so cool. You were mentioning the university. Were those exhibits at the library? [00:33:13] Speaker A: Okay. They have a small exhibit area near the performing arts center. [00:33:20] Speaker B: We have a satellite exhibit that we do for them with the art. We have an artist in residency program and we bring an artist here to Corpus and they actually get to go stay on an island for a week through the university. We have a partnership. And then they come back here. They do art here in the art center. And then a year later, they'll bring all of their art back and everything that was inspired by their stay at Laguna Madre. So we just had. Cecilia Sierra was just here. We were displaying at the Bell at the Bell Library. And we've got our next artist in residency actually today. Oh, my gosh. She's going to the island today. [00:33:57] Speaker C: That's so exciting. [00:33:58] Speaker B: Yeah, so she's actually, she's on her way right now. Hope the weather's great for you and maybe we'll see in a year. Maybe her work will be affected by the weather. It may be a little drearier year, so it'll be interesting. This is bookmarked now. I'll be able to look back and remember what the weather. [00:34:11] Speaker A: Yeah, you said artisan registry. I was downstairs last time I was here and I saw like, I guess just different rooms. Is there artists that I guess have their stuff here, work that they work on here? Kind of like, you know, like over there, you know what I'm saying? [00:34:23] Speaker B: At the moment, we don't have any long term residencies with artists here. So we do classes, we have workshops. We have like the clay studio. Oh, we. [00:34:33] Speaker A: What's that? [00:34:33] Speaker C: We've got a members group who meets every Thursday from. I think it's like 10 to 2. They come in and they bring all their artwork that they're working on for the week and you get to see their work in progress as they finish their work. And then submit to the galleries. It's really cool to see. Antonio's got some really good pieces that are. That he's cooking up, and I think he's got some in the cerealias on the work. [00:34:54] Speaker B: I can see him working for my office sometimes, like, or, like, just close enough that, like, every time I pop out. And he is such a fast painter that, like, it'll just be a giant canvas, and then you walk in, and all of a sudden it's a river, and there's the sky and there's a canoe and there's birds, and it's been two days. [00:35:10] Speaker C: It's like, he doesn't work on small pieces either. Those pieces are as. Are tall and as tall as me. Like, they're. They're big. Yeah. [00:35:17] Speaker A: How do you feel. How y' all feel about the murals going up and stuff for downtown? [00:35:20] Speaker C: Love. Absolutely love. I think it's. Who wants to walk downtown and just see gray and white walls and have no silliness and whimsy as they downtown? I mean, it's so wonderful. [00:35:32] Speaker B: I'm currently stalking one of the artists, but I won't. But I won't say who on a podcast, because I would. Yeah, no, I love. I love seeing all the murals go. If I got to do a drive through downtown when it seemed like everybody was like, up in the air is, like, really exciting. But I want a mural. Let's do a mural. [00:35:49] Speaker C: We just did one last year. It's on the side of the building. You can see it as you cross down ocean. That one's new. It's fresh. I wasn't super involved in the creation of it, so I don't quite know all the background about it. [00:36:01] Speaker B: I'll get some more details. Yeah, I'll get some more details. I love seeing the entire community come together. It's one thing when you know that you love art. Like, I love art, and I know that August loves art, and I know that my co workers do. I know that my family does, and I know that the world has, like, an overall appreciation. But to see my social media flooded with art. You see people who don't normally post or care or engage with art content across town where everybody's excited for it. That feels. It feels almost nostalgic to me. Like, it feels like what I remember, like, the county fair feeling, like when everybody's talking about it, it's like, oh, my gosh. Like, I don't get really. Get too excited for buck days. That's a lot of traffic. But mural. I'm like, heck, yeah, we're all talking about it. Let's chit chat. [00:36:49] Speaker A: Like, for sure. [00:36:50] Speaker B: I get, I get hyped. [00:36:51] Speaker A: That's cool. Like that, having that thought. Like, it brings people together. [00:36:54] Speaker B: It does. [00:36:55] Speaker A: Art does bring people together. [00:36:56] Speaker B: And then you drive by later and you get all those memories again. So, like, you're visiting here after you had your wedding reception here. So there's, you know, there's going to be couples that got, you know, engaged downtown in front of this mural, and every time they go by the horses or the birds or they're always going to have, like, those, those memories. [00:37:14] Speaker A: That's. That's why I was mentioning the. Because you were asking me which podcast episode was a good episode. So that's why I brought up Caitlyn's. Caitlyn's episode, because she was mentioning birdwatch, but she was mentioning. Other than that, she was mentioning, like, experience. Like she's an experiential marketer or something like that. [00:37:30] Speaker C: Yes. [00:37:30] Speaker A: Yeah. And that's what that. It reminds me of that, like you have that experience instead of just buying something from the store for somebody here. Look what I got. [00:37:37] Speaker B: Right? [00:37:38] Speaker A: You actually go and check something out together with them. I think that's impactful and how it actually, I think it helps community also. Like you're saying, yeah, people could have, you know, got engaged downtown or something like that. [00:37:51] Speaker B: I'll just think about the kids, too. That, I mean, not, not all children are going to have, like, the privilege and the access to pursue art, to learn art, to even be exposed to art. Not all of them are going to have the opportunity. But just driving downtown. [00:38:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:06] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. There's artists. Like, I could do that. That person looks like me. I could be that person. And we've got a variety of artists to find inspiration for. [00:38:15] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll see. I substitute taught, like, at Driscoll Middle School, Moody High School. And those kids, they're into, like, graffiti and stuff. They would pass around these books and like, write graffiti. It was amazing work. You know what I mean? Even. Even that is art. Like, I think too, to me, there's actually. [00:38:31] Speaker B: If someone wants to submit. Yeah, I will take it. Bring me some graffiti. [00:38:35] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:38:35] Speaker B: I was like, submit it. [00:38:36] Speaker A: I was like, that's amazing. [00:38:37] Speaker B: Sure. It's on topic. [00:38:39] Speaker A: Does the art walk reach you guys out here? [00:38:41] Speaker B: So we actually have kids walk. [00:38:43] Speaker A: Okay. [00:38:43] Speaker B: So we are a part of art walk. Do you want to jump off with kids walk? [00:38:48] Speaker C: We are a part of art walk. We do kids walk for the first Friday for Every month, Kids Walk is this huge event we put on and kids can come. We usually have a theme for. For each art walk. [00:38:59] Speaker B: I was dressed like a pirate recently. [00:39:01] Speaker C: Pirates. This last one was Lemonade Day, where a bunch of vendors who were children got to learn about entrepreneurship and really sell their lemonade, which was really, really cool to see. We do Family Art Time, a special family art time that is themed. We do. I think it's also our opening for [00:39:22] Speaker B: news shows for these exhibits. I was like. I was like. Then it bounces back to me. So while everything is going on outside, because we are so the art center, not the art museum. Just to make it clear, because a lot of people do get us confused. The ones with the courtyard, we're the ones that. We have a big, fancy Mediterranean courtyard. I only say fancy just to paint the picture. But a lot of our kids activities, weather permitting, are going to happen out there. And while that's happening, we've got adults inside, mainly in our galleries. So we'll do our. Our openings right now are set to happen around at the same time as Kids Walk. [00:40:00] Speaker A: So, yeah, how synonymous is it to like drink wine? Because there's a place down here. [00:40:05] Speaker B: We do have Gallery 41 in our facility. So Gallery 41 is named Gallery 41 because the building was built in 1941. Just as a fun little fact. But yeah, if you, if you wanted to pop up and grab a glass [00:40:18] Speaker C: of wine, then you walk. [00:40:21] Speaker A: I mean, that. [00:40:22] Speaker B: That's. [00:40:23] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. [00:40:24] Speaker C: Yeah, that's totally fine. [00:40:25] Speaker B: So I think the only, the only time we would really have no drinks, no pets because we are also dog friendly. The only time we have no to that is going to be when we have those dresses in there. So the dresses, the Listonia dresses are. They are beautiful, but they do touch the ground. So we do not allow anything that could spill or make a mess for that. But yeah, we've got. And we've got vendors out sometimes and so you can pick up drinks. [00:40:50] Speaker A: That's cool. [00:40:50] Speaker B: Things out in the courtyard as well. Drinks and snacks. [00:40:53] Speaker C: We also got local artist demonstrations. Vanessa Spitler, who we mentioned earlier, did a paper demonstration for kids and people of all ages. Last month. We had a. The Coffee painting, the Fantasy Map making with Sam Derleth. [00:41:08] Speaker A: So you're talking like people can actually watch them making. [00:41:10] Speaker C: People can watch them make art and they can even join in depending on what the artist is doing. I mean, we've had a sewing demonstration. We've had a synth. Sorry, I'm going to butcher it, but it's a synth demonstration. So we did it. And coincide with family art time. I think that was the first month that you worked here. [00:41:29] Speaker B: That was my first week. That was so cool. [00:41:32] Speaker C: We collaborated with Matt Eller, who also teaches at Del Mar. He has a synthesizer machine that basically makes music using sound waves. It's really technologically sounding, but we actually had. We bought plants, and we were able to have the kids paint little plant pots. And then they took their plants over to Matt, who then hooked it up to his machine, and they were able to make music using their plants. [00:41:56] Speaker B: I just hooked it up to my arm and I made the weirdest techno ever. I wasn't sure how weird I thought it was going to be, but it was a little bit weirder. [00:42:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:03] Speaker A: Yeah. That's so cool. Is there anything you guys would like to share or mention? [00:42:09] Speaker B: I would like to throw out that we have a super cool veterans program. I wasn't sure where to squeeze it in earlier, but, you know my husband Anthony, he's joined you here. Anthony is a Marine veteran. We actually got him signed up for a membership. [00:42:24] Speaker A: So cool. [00:42:25] Speaker B: And he's already done, actually, clay. He's done some clay stuff going on. But our heart program is Heroes Engaging through Art. [00:42:32] Speaker C: I want to say that's. [00:42:33] Speaker B: I was like. I was like, I think I got it right. [00:42:36] Speaker C: Hey. [00:42:36] Speaker B: So it's Heroes Engaging through Art, and we are reaching out. We are providing memberships for veterans. We are trying to really just, like, reach out to folks that. I keep saying community to the point where it's going to sound cliche and, like, super silly, but we see younger couples come in. We'll see younger enlisted or officers come in, and we're one of the places that people visit. But when they realize that they can do things here and that they can engage with people here, it becomes a really easy. An easy. Yes. We're right down the street from the base. You pop out right by TAMU for. Right down the road, we have cubbies for our clay studio folks. So you can leave some of your tools here, leave your clay here. They can come hang out, hang by the water. Like, it's not a bad place to look around. [00:43:25] Speaker A: We forget that the base is there. Like. Like, I've lived here all my. Like, most of my other bases. No, but what I'm saying, like, it's amazing. Like, just, like, even having Anthony on my podcast has brought an awareness to the veterans that are out there that are, you know, maybe struggling or whatever they might have going on, and that art can have a Good. A good effect on the brain. I think it does. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm one of those advocates, especially in music. Like I'm. I'm a musician. [00:43:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:53] Speaker A: So that awareness, I think is. Is awesome. Especially for veterans, you know, I mean, [00:43:59] Speaker C: that's really what we saw. We saw the need there for veterans who were struggling. And art was really the kind of one of the answers for that. So, I mean, as a veteran, you can take a free class at the art center. You can get a free membership, a free clay studio membership. I mean, there's. There's a lot of opportunities for you here at the art center. [00:44:16] Speaker A: That's cool. Cool, I like that. That's cool. Is there anything you want to share? August, That's a cool name, by the way. [00:44:21] Speaker C: Oh, thank you. Thank you. [00:44:22] Speaker A: That's your name. That's your. That's. They gave you that name or. [00:44:25] Speaker C: It's my chosen name. [00:44:26] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. Okay. I. I think I had knew somebody named October. I thought that was pretty cool. Yeah, I thought that was pretty cool. [00:44:32] Speaker B: I'll be September next. [00:44:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:34] Speaker B: Well, then we'll just make it a. We'll be a trio. [00:44:36] Speaker C: Admittedly. Admittedly people ask me all the time, oh, were you born in August? And then. And I. I have to lie to them. I'm like, yeah, I was born in March. I just like the name August. [00:44:47] Speaker A: I don't know. That's cool. Yeah, it is cool. [00:44:50] Speaker B: Well, do you have any questions about the art center? Is there anything that maybe we didn't address for you? [00:44:54] Speaker A: No, man. I think y' all covered writing the table stuff. Yeah. Because I got them just like, oh, [00:45:00] Speaker B: no, the nipples talking to me. [00:45:01] Speaker A: I'm like, do I have enough time to think? [00:45:04] Speaker B: It's multiple choice. Don't panic. [00:45:08] Speaker A: Don't make me write a paper, please. Oh my gosh. No, not really. Is there a fee to come in? [00:45:15] Speaker B: No admission. [00:45:15] Speaker A: Okay, no admission. [00:45:17] Speaker B: I want people to come in. Well, all year round, set the admission. So don't let me take credit. But we want people to come in. We want people to come look at the art. We want artists to come in and learn what we're about. So. Yeah, it's never going to be an admission. [00:45:28] Speaker C: Oh my God, that's so generous, Kaylee. [00:45:30] Speaker B: I know. You are welcome. Don't let anyone see that part. But we do. I will say that we do have a couple of events that will be ticketed event. So the one that really comes to mind is that we have super bowl and super bowl is. It comes From Clay Studio. [00:45:48] Speaker C: It's our biggest fundraiser of the year. We work with the food bank here in Corpus, and it is basically all of our members get to come together and they get to join leagues and compete against. Compete with each other, not against everyone. [00:46:05] Speaker B: Friendly competition. [00:46:06] Speaker C: Friendly competition. They get to make. Make all these handmade bowls. I think this past year we made a little over a thousand bowls. And people who buy tickets can come and get a bowl for free and try different soups from local food vendors here in the area. And it's. They. They get to vote on their favorite soup at the end of the night. And it's something. I think. Who won this year? Do you. You weren't here for that, were you? [00:46:30] Speaker B: It was the cheese soup that was served in the bread, in the. In the crisp. [00:46:35] Speaker C: I thought it was a tomato soup soup. [00:46:36] Speaker B: I. I think it was the Bavarian cheese soup. [00:46:39] Speaker C: Interesting. I didn't get to try that one. And I was so jealous. [00:46:42] Speaker B: No, I think. Or maybe that was my personal favorite soup, folks. I'm sorry. That one was my favorite Super Bowl. Like. Like picture our courtyard, and underneath all of the columns are all the fanciest local restaurants with their chef. Their chef serving the soup to you. And you get a little sample of each soup. [00:47:03] Speaker C: Soup. [00:47:04] Speaker B: So that's how I know that I tried the cheese one, because I think I tried it twice. [00:47:06] Speaker C: I kept seeing people walk around with baguettes. Fuzzle soup. And I was like, where are you going? [00:47:10] Speaker B: It is literally. I've dreamed about it so many times. So you can go around, you sample them all, and then you get a full cup and a full bowl. And it's. [00:47:18] Speaker A: When does this happen? During the super bowl time or. [00:47:21] Speaker B: It's right after. It's right after the football. [00:47:23] Speaker C: Super bowl in November. [00:47:24] Speaker A: November. Okay. [00:47:25] Speaker C: Or not. I'm at big incorrect. Time isn't real. [00:47:31] Speaker B: What? [00:47:31] Speaker C: What? [00:47:31] Speaker A: You have to be right. Don't be wrong on that one. [00:47:34] Speaker B: It is right. It is. It is not. In November, I worked the super bowl, and I've been here not very long. I don't know when the super bowl is. But I'm not a sports. [00:47:44] Speaker C: I'm not a sports person either. [00:47:46] Speaker B: So you're like, it's going to be like March. March or March. [00:47:50] Speaker C: That doesn't sound February. That doesn't. [00:47:52] Speaker A: It? [00:47:53] Speaker C: Literally. [00:47:54] Speaker B: It has to be February. Has to be one of those two. [00:47:56] Speaker C: This past one was February 19th. [00:47:58] Speaker A: Probably during the cold season. [00:47:59] Speaker B: Yes. Cold season season. You know what? You're on to something. Full season. February. We'll get the date for you do you want to come? Do you want to come to super bowl? [00:48:07] Speaker A: Maybe? [00:48:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll get you a ticket. Okay, Jesus. I will get Jesus a ticket. Put it on and put it. I'll take care of it. [00:48:15] Speaker A: As much. As much as I do a podcast for the community and stuff like that, I do not like to get out in the community. [00:48:21] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. [00:48:23] Speaker A: I feel sad to say that, but I mean. But yeah. [00:48:26] Speaker B: Yeah, you let me know. [00:48:27] Speaker A: Yeah, Send me an invite and I'll. [00:48:28] Speaker B: I'll get you and the wifey set up so you can come have a date night where you had your wedding reception. [00:48:32] Speaker A: Oh, hell yeah. [00:48:33] Speaker B: Yeah, See? See? [00:48:34] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah, that is a good idea. [00:48:36] Speaker B: I'm trying to play wingman for you. [00:48:37] Speaker A: Yes, yes. Thank you. Thank you. Hell yeah. I need all the help I can get. [00:48:42] Speaker C: Hold on. When you need a win. [00:48:45] Speaker A: Oh, that's cool. Yeah. So there's no fee to come in here. I'm trying to. You guys are all closed on Monday. So Tuesday through Sunday you guys are open. What times are you? [00:48:56] Speaker B: Seven. [00:48:57] Speaker C: So 10 to seven. Except Wednesdays we're open 10 to eight for farmers market. And then Saturdays were open 10 to four, and then Sundays are open 11 to two. [00:49:05] Speaker B: Hey. Yeah, yeah. I overcome. Or I oversimplified it in my head. [00:49:08] Speaker A: You know what? [00:49:09] Speaker C: I believe it took me a full year to get those right. [00:49:14] Speaker A: That's funny. Yeah. Sunday's got to be the shortest. You got to be home for the family or whatever. [00:49:18] Speaker B: I will say Sundays, I do intake as well, though, so Sundays, it's. I. When all the art comes in at once, it's a lot of. It's a lot of bodies, it's a lot of artwork. It is a well oiled machine. We have a whole system. But yeah, Sundays, they might be shorter hours, but they. They make up for each and every shortened minute. [00:49:39] Speaker A: Yeah. What I like about it, y', all, is. Is that there's. It's local artists. Our local artist pieces are here. When I came here the first time when I met Yahir, I was like, wow, this is local stuff. You got little trinkets and. Right there in that little hallway there. And then the dresses were here at that time. Yeah, it was. I was just like, wow, this is local stuff. So that's what I really like about it, that it's local art. [00:50:03] Speaker B: I love being able to tell. Oh, I'm so sorry. [00:50:05] Speaker A: No, go ahead. For people that around us. [00:50:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I love being able to tell customers that come through or like guests that come through. When they ask about a painting, being able to say, like, yeah, I saw them working on that. [00:50:15] Speaker A: Well, you know. You know, too. It makes me think about, like, not a lot of us know that it's for sale. We just think, oh, it's there for display. [00:50:21] Speaker B: We do. I would say that that is a common thing that I hear from folks. Like, number one is, how much does it cost to come in here? They're already in the gallery, usually at this point, and they're like, how much does it cost? Well, you've already crossed the threshold, so it's just as much as it was when you walked in. It's still free. But, yeah, a lot of folks think that we are more like a museum and less like a gallery. So we don't have traveling exhibits that are going to be archival historical. We are going to have active artists, living artists, working artists. [00:50:51] Speaker A: Do you have a price tag, or does the person have to ask, hey, how much does this cost? [00:50:56] Speaker B: Everything will have a set price. So, honestly, thank you. Because all you've just done is confirm to me that my tags are the right color. Because each piece down there has a tag right next to it, and it has the title, the medium, and the price. Okay, so title, medium, artist, price. But we've got them right next to it, and they're the same color as the wall, so they blend in nice. So if you see a piece that you're interested in, just kind of slow down, take a look to the right, towards the bottom of the frame, and you'll see it posted right on the wall. There's a red sticker on it. That means it's sold. And so sorry for you. [00:51:27] Speaker A: You said media. There's Water Burger. I'm thinking medium cup for tea, but that's like the. Like acrylic. [00:51:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So it would be oil or clay or. Yeah, yeah, but that's a good. That's a good point to say, though. We're right next to the Whataburger by the base, so if you get confused right across street. [00:51:43] Speaker C: Street. [00:51:44] Speaker B: That is how you find us. Go to the Whataburger. If you're standing on the balcony, you can see in the second floor. [00:51:48] Speaker A: Everybody passes by here. It's Ocean Drive. Whatever. Is this ocean or shoreline right here? Everybody passes by here. You know what I mean? To go to the bank center or, you know, the sea wall or whatever. Yeah, it's here. And I know that. We know that it's here. It's just like parking and coming in. Yes. You know what? I'm saying that's cool. You guys, check out the art center. You guys, is there anything else you like, you would like to share? Thanks for coming on. [00:52:11] Speaker B: Everything. Thank you so much for having me. [00:52:12] Speaker C: Thank you. Yeah. This has been wonderful. You thank. [00:52:14] Speaker A: Yes. It's awesome. It's awesome. Well, you guys, August, Kaylee, thanks for coming in. We'll see you guys next time on the corporate originals podcast next episode. I can't tell you what it was, but somebody will be on next episode. We'll see you guys next time. Y' all have a good one. Bye.