This week has been a lot of listening and storyboarding. I've listened to just about all of the arts related interviews we have and I'm coming to find out something super great about these interviews: they almost all possess feelings of community and growth. What I didn't expect to hear is that in all of the interviews, there are people talking about how art has shaped their lives but also how art has been flexible in providing enrichment and reflection for the neighborhoods in which these people live and work in.
One of my favorite quotes I've heard came from Troy Burton, explaining that how Eubie Blake has come to be was "a labor of love of a lot of people" I think that idea kind of sums of the ideas of Troy, Khai, Sheila, and others. The arts community in Baltimore is about education and support. Teaching youth, spreading awareness, and making people think differently. It's a special way of changing culture. I also think it's kind of funny because at the end of the day, our entire project is kind of a labor of love of lots of people.
What is kind of difficult for me is the fact that I see arts more as an agent of change, not a result of change, in a lot of how people are talking about their involvement.
This week I listened and storyboarded, and I'm continuing to do that and pulling out timestamps and quotes. This weekend I should be going to an opening of an exhibit sponsored by the Contemporary which I'm really excited about! We are moving forward, I'm a little worried because we don't have as many interviews as other groups and I feel so often that art reflects other types of changes, we just need to ask the right questions to understand the changes of our topic.
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