 Hello, everyone. Thank you for tuning in to Art So Wonderful Show. This is Bruce Wilson, Executive Director of Art So Wonderful, and I thought I would get in touch with you guys and just let you know what's going on. So it's just going to be me. And I enjoy doing these things now and how I can count how many I've done by myself. But I enjoy doing it, so sometimes I get the urge to do them, and I think now's the time for me to do one, so you can understand what's going on up here for me. And right now I'm actually at the City Place Burlton Mall in one of our spaces that we use as an art gallery. Another art so wonderful gallery. We have two, one was here, and one is at University Mall. Pretty big one, 5,020. And so the one here at the City Place Burlton Mall is moving upstairs in the mall. So it's moving up the boards. What Paxton is. It's moving up the off the Church Street Main Street. If you work here, come in from Church Street Main, I'm not Church Street Marketplace, and you'll be walking right into our space. It's not ready yet, but we changed it. It's going to be our studio, where artists can come in and actually work on the art, you know, and so that's what we're going to be working on. So basically, this old space was a gallery. We thought, well, we've got an art gallery at the University of Mars, a gigantic, and like I said, over 5,000 square feet. And so, so we didn't need to, but our studio will be perfect for individuals who like to do art. Many people, many artists have said that if they only had a place to work to do art, it didn't have to be like full circle for them, you know, like do their arts and sell their art. You know, I said, well, I want a good idea. And so here it is. Alright, so wonderful art studio coming up, coming near you. I haven't made a date yet, because I'm sitting here trying to figure it all out. You know, I got some of my artists and teams who work with us at UVM. I was going to paint it, you know, like a trim color, but it's pretty clean in there, you know. Yeah, I could not. I don't have to paint nothing in there, really. All white, but I would throw a little, you know, some type of green or green trim, not really green, but we have this type of green color that we would do. So I'm just like I'm moping around in here. I've got some companies I got throwing the garbage. So university malls, space, art galleries going on well, we opened up August 41, we sell art all the time. And a lot of people come in. They say it looks like an art museum. And that's that's what I wanted to look like an art museum, you know, they said they never seen like a gallery in a mall. So I didn't really think about it, but I haven't never seen our gallery in the mall. And so maybe we were in the first and people come in and bring their kids in and they move around, look at all the art, talk about it. We have some incredible artists from all around the state. And they work just like go from a couple hundred to like you thousand, you know, all this amazing art. Every time I walk in that place, I am going to cruise, cruise the place to see. Look at that art. I have an art director who works for me, her name is Alondra de la Cuyesta. She's a curated art director. She's amazing, man. She put that place together and she put this one together too. And I depended on her like crazy without her. I want to know what's good, but I'm not an artist. First of all, I'm not an artist. Well, each time I say I'm not an artist, I have to take it back because that's so wonderful was created in 2003. And I had my interns from UVM Art Department. We're doing murals, we've been doing murals since 2001. And we're doing murals, they're bruised, bruised, please come on, help out with the mural, get on the wall. And I'm like, I'm not no artist. I said, I can't even draw a stick, man. But one arm would be longer than the other. If I did, she said bruise, bruise, that's art. You're funky car, go look at the Picasso bird. So another time, and this was 2003 or something. So every time I say I'm not an artist, I think of Vanessa, I guess I am an artist. And like all, and the rest of them. So, so we all are artists and individuals who have art that they've been working on and it's all stacked up in their closets. Please get in touch with Alondra de la Cuesta, or you can look at our website or, you know, all our social media, you'll find her, believe me. Or you'll find me, you know, and I will pass it on to her. And she will actually put some samples and send through email, and she'll get back with, she's real fast at getting back with you. And let you know what to do. Now the good thing about us, and what we do is that we know better than nobody and I always have to say that probably everything you hear me say is like, I say nobody, because I have to have everybody to help me do this. But anyway, we know better than nobody, but we do believe in people as well, we do believe in what people needs are. And so, what we do is we find out how art galleries usually operate and a lot of times, well, every time we look at it, they charge you to hang your work. They take a large percentage from when you make, when you sell it, like, I don't know, like 45 minutes up down 50. So for us, we charge you absolutely zero dollars to hang your art. And when you sell your art, we give you 70%. I mean, how wonderful is that? You know, we just want to help you for real. And so people love it. They can't believe it. Every time I say that to somebody or artist, I would say like three, four times. And you mean you really want to take 30%? Yep. That's right. We do it. That's all of it. Everything we do is like that though. Okay, so our gallery's going well. We're always going to, we're always adding things like when I first got that open that place up, you know, before I open it in my little tiny brain I was saying, So now, you know, we're going to do performances in here because we have a lot of local music, you know, and that's been around since 2003. We've done things like that for 15, I don't know. I mean, the jazz bass, his day, we've done, we've performed that. Oh, Shell Museum, all kind of incredible places that these individuals have opportunities to showcase their music at these places. From like the highest level, that's what we try to do. There's nothing that's in space and kind of echo and all kind of cool places. And we use artists who probably you would never, I'm going to say never, but you know, it takes, it's not easy to get into the jazz. It's hard to get into the jazz, but you know, when we do our trips, free markets, it's hard to get in some of these places. And for us, it's easy. You know, we're doing it. And we know we work with people who believe in our mission goals and exactly by helping others to make their goals. And so, so we're going to do so. We've been doing it just say the first day we opened August 21. So, Jack Hansen Jazz, we had commissioners office from the Department of Health. And we did that opening. And basically, we did the commissioners, we did that. Our gallery's right across from the center court. We actually have like Santa Claus and Easter Bunny. So we were very fortunate to have that space and across from our gallery. And so the commissioners office talked about college, they talked about measurements, they talked about quiet, health factors, which is awesome. And we had an audience of, we had a stage built there, and it was the audience that we provided seats, seating, six feet apart, rows, six feet rows. And, you know, obviously we did it right because Department of Health didn't have no complaints, they thought we did it well. And the same with our gallery opening, you know, people would enjoy the art in our gallery, we had children's venues there. We had people go down to see our incredible 1000 square, 1000 foot mural that we did full court with Michael Mullins illustrating incredible things we've already done there. And it was incredible. So, Valentine's Day, and we did an event with Jack Hansen Jazz stage in the center courts. And we just explained, you know, they just play love music for people, you know, come by, and that's all we want to do. It is how I give individuals the opportunity to be able to have something different on their brain for COVID and this is cool music, you know, something they can, you know, enjoy and sit back and relax. You know, Jack Hansen Jazz is incredible. And we did that. So now on March 27. I don't have time for me, but for my youth orchestra will be performing in our space. We'll have Jack Hansen Jazz there. We'll have Max Palmer on the center court. He's going to do a comedy. He's so funny. Max Palmer, look at him up. He's going to do a comedy in the center court. You know, not all at once. We have certain times that if I don't have it in my brain, but you can look it up. I think from university mall, social media. As a matter of fact, I got to check it, look at it myself. I'm going to start around three or eight. Like four o'clock. 4pm. We'll have several venues there. Serving up some wine. And, you know, once again, we just won't give an individual opportunity to showcase their talent. God knows we don't need to give up for my youth orchestra opportunity to showcase their talent. So anytime you see them there at the Flint, but we have a good partnership and we know that they really want to perform someone based on that. Flint is not really at his hundred percent or nowhere near it. And so they just, you know, they just want to do more of this practice. So here you go. They got it at our space. In April, 23rd, I think, we're going to have DJ Aras, famous DJ downtown, play at the club downtown, doing a little hip hop right on center court on the big stage. And I think A2B2 is going to be performing as well. So every month we're going to do something that's going to, and it's free, free for the community. And some man enjoyed himself and just laid back for a minute and have something to do and something different than, you know, worried about if somebody got their mask on correctly or if it's not holding up. What if you got, or we got worried about it, did we get our, when is our fascination and, you know, we're just, even though we have to make sure it was mandated saying we have to make sure that they're all mandated. We don't have to worry about it. You know, we just have to make sure that we have some type of life too, because, and for me, that's what I've got to do for myself. So I'm a little, a lot has got to do with my own little selfish self, because I want these things and we've been doing them. And the same for my local music, we've been doing this stuff for 2003 and, and so I don't know what's going to be in April, I mean, on April, May. So if any of you have ideas how what you might want to see is Center Court and University Mall in May, we'll send us an email, send it to me. Arts, ARTS Arts, so wonderful. Numero two at, well, the number two at gmail.com. That's my personal email, or you can send it to Bruce Wilson, BRUCE, WILSOM 817 at gmail.com, I believe. And send it to me and say, we'd like to see these people perform. You know, in May, in Center Court and University Mall. Oh God, let me tell you something, we had incredible, like UVM Champlain dancers, look them up UV, I mean, Champlain College dancers did a video. They did an experience in November, it was like 15 or 20 of them. Oh my God, they're the best. They're incredible dancers. Look, look them up Champlain College dancers, look them up on on YouTube or look them up through our social media arts, so wonderful. You will see them performing man, right there in our space. You see the video, you see the finished video and they did something real good out in Center Court all Candidate Jam. I, you know, if I was thinking I would have had those videos to tell me TV, but I didn't. I don't know, maybe they can, maybe I will, and they can somehow add it to something. It was so funny, I look in there, sometimes I look at the history channel, all the time I look at the history channel on YouTube, and then in the name hall, they flip up and say, look at this, look at that. And then, sure enough, here was Champlain dancers, flipped up on YouTube, I'm like, I get so excited, I had to play it, because I was there when they did it, and I'm so happy to give them the opportunity to do that. Oh man, they're incredible, they perform at the flam as well. So these are some of the things that we do at Art Gallery, it's not just Art Gallery, it's a people place, it's a multicultural place. It's, you know, we're open to all ideas, you know, we're not limited to none. And, you know, I'm trying to get, I'm trying to kind of check with the climbing wall, see if they can complete the climbing wall, so we can have a day of a, maybe do the Center Court, kind of take, I was looking at some potential for climbing wall, and I know years ago it was our sponsor, we used to bring the climbing portable climbing wall to the beach and we had advanced the park. So, man, I want to, and they came to actually came to university more and more time to do some, so that's my next move right now, so when I get off this, I'm going to go talk with them, see if they can complete that climbing wall. Of course, people who climb that wall, of course we won't charge you absolutely nothing. We are always accepting the donations. We have to because we have to survive, but we don't, you know, you can give us something down. But that'll be cool, that climb wall will be back, I want to see that in there. So touch a cliff climb wall, they don't know, this is my first time saying that, I haven't contacted yet, but they used to be our sponsor and I think they might have sold us a musical, but we'll get back with them. And so, so I'm excited about the work I'm doing. So, here it goes. So, recently, like, I was down under, like I was, I had hurt my foot. And I off-shelf have felt on it from the back on, we're going to move all these shelving, not all of them, most of them are shelving off our back home in University Mall, because I'm going to have an artsy class for the kids and parents and anybody actually, we're going to do that. It's so cool, you know, they get to come back. We've always done that, actually. They make jewelry, make it and they do, you know, pastel colors and stuff, they'll take them off the landscape, just that. We've been doing that. That's how Arts of One for actually got going. You know, we used to do that in around 2002 or something. So now we're going to have artsy crafts going back again. The last time we had it was, I think, a couple years ago. We did it at the library and the University of Mall, and Casey Clark was coming to teach these individuals. And then we did our chill-outs in the street about art and crafts, and they, you know, we had a sponsor after midnight jewelry, they don't get like these plastic beads, it's incredible real beads and stuff, and that's what we're going to be using for these parents and you and your families. And so I got to get these with my, I got to get these with my shelving down. So when I was trying to test this to see how they came, one of them hit me in the top of the foot, bam. Oh my God, it was painful. And as you would guess, with anybody who'd been hit in the top of the foot, it was like a metal kiln. So it kind of broke the scans, I had to go to the doctor, you know, I went there a couple days, so like, oh, that's got to soak it in this and that and other. And they thought it might have been effective, you know, man, that I could have effected them through the bone and stuff. So, so I had to go through these procedures, so they kept me at the hospital for few days, that was October 4, and then they did these serious tests on me, and they said that they found, you know, that I had a blood clot on my lung and my heart. I'm like, what? Oh, I got blood on my lung, it ever hurts. Come on, man. You know, most of you who don't, you see me riding my bike, you see me, you know, hanging out, shooting ball at, because I had basketball trap, created basketball for 15 years, playing ball, all things I love. And I never felt like I don't smoke, so I don't know how that happened. So, sure enough, they found out that, okay, it's not, you know, the one on your lung is not really, it's not really there, but there, and then one of your heart is there. And so they had me taking these blood thinners and dying all the time. I don't know if it's blood or whatever. And so now I'm better, and I'm still got to take these blood thinners, and I see my doctor on March 18. If it's too late, you'll be in too late, and see what's good, and then I'll put it on this, whatever you call it, pang on it, put it under my little pangs on you. Anything, they got another thing, it's not like, you know, in our eye, and I had all that stuff, but it's something that they put up, hearty, hearty A, right. So we'll see if there are any blood clots, but I don't feel like it there is. I'm back, I'm doing things I do. So I thought I might share that with everyone, because, you know, people hear about things real fast about a person. And that's one thing that you guys should know, and see me and say, well, he ain't dead. He is alright. And, you know, he's talking to us. So I ain't dead yet. And so I just wanted you to know, here I am, we're still doing the same thing I cut down on I cut back on a lot of things, a lot of things I'm not going to be doing, not me personally so we cut back on a lot of, a lot of services and we had over 10 programs for some of the program, we're not going to be doing Art Gallery. Art's a wonderful United College club. We're going to have yoga. Yoga at the Art Gallery. Oh my God, how incredible that's going to be. Yoga at the Art Gallery, man. We're going to love that. So yoga, you know, one, one year it was a Lulu Lemon girl there for Silicon Art, you know, for yoga and we had some other person, Malika, she was the best, I think. And so now we're trying to find some other yoga for Silicon. I'm telling you, I used to do the over all the time, like once twice a week and we had that when I, our youth gallery chill out center that I opened up. And I'm telling you, I wasn't like, you know, like, all that, you know, I could get over, you know, I mean, you know, all that. But I wouldn't go, oh, every time I got up and move, I'm telling you, now that I don't do yoga, that's all I do. So when I get up, oh, my back. So, you know, and I don't think I'd be hurting like that, you know, I just like this normal. So I definitely got to get back in the yoga and this, you know, and then let everybody else get back in yoga too, at our place. Now, we're not going to charge you absolutely a dime. We're just going to do our yoga by donations. You know, man, you know, we're going to get it facilitated sometimes. You know, I don't have a budget for, I don't have, we personally, basically don't have budget for absolutely nothing, $0. We're just so fortunate to have individuals like you guys and a lot of trusted people in Vermont to help us. And I mean, they always have since 1999, you know, they believe in our mission goals and objectives and they see the outcome measurements of the work that we do with you, primarily you and people in the community. So I'm really happy about that. How can you not be. So let me see what else. Alright, so wonderful. Also come in to answer one gallery. If you want to submit some work, look up along the decode a land drug dealer, who I stopped through our website for social media, and she's going to ask me to send her some samples to her email. And she wants to ask you, do you, is it on campus, because that's what she, you know, that's what with all our work on campus. People work at hanging in our galleries on campus. Come to the March 27 event, you know, our space is over $5,000 for our people, but we don't only have, we're not only going to make make it work for like 30 people like we know we're not going to fill it up to capacity because we want to be safe. It's going to be six foot distancing. We want to be PPE, everything that we supposed to do, you know, where it's going to be people is going to do a people walk around to earth, they can sit there and listen to the Vermont use of me. You orchestra jackass and listen to jackass jazz. They'll go out and hear Max Palmer comedian. Max Palmer, I'm starting Max's. Oh, man, Max is so funny, you know, and he's our we call it Ben Twillipus. Oh, he's gonna bring us puppies out there for the kids. Every time I say Max, Max, people bring I kissed it as you can. You got to do stuff with kids, but he just can't say, he just can't do adult stuff. And so he's been working on it. So I know he's not going to do anything that's going to want to see kids around in the audience and that that's, it's going to be all good for him. So now March 27, 4pm University mall. The remind you, you focus to start. They start from the old they go from five, six jackass and jazz. He's like a interval when we take breaks. Max Palmer, it was gonna start around seven in the center court. I'm sure them vignettes will be said one probably till seven. We will have some grapple so we'll kind of earn some money from and give you good prizes to win. I haven't got the prize yet. We have to respond to the ill party doors and stuff. I'm sure they will. You want to throw us some stuff. 155 Georgia Street unit B7. 155 Georgia Street soft frozen. B7. So one. And we'll take your card. Oh, nothing. So Alondra, like, I think it's, I don't know, every, you can look up on city market Burlington. She does art for the families there every day. It could have been Sunday, maybe every two weeks. Look that up. Because she told me that they do really, really, a lot of people show it's a witty list. But it's like cool art that we work with city market and Burlington and with parents and youth. And it's a good deal. So check that out. Also, too, if you're at the ever, ever at Shelburne vineyards in Shelburone, we have art hanging in there. Oh, incredible art. So if you don't, you know, you want to have a drink, you know, and, you know, that fiddle here across the street. You know, it's a pizza over there or go to or you want to stop over at the convenience and see the artists hanging out there. You know, incredible art, you know, you know, a laundry from art from one artist and hunger. You might be able to go online and look at Shelburne music, Shelburne vineyards, you know, displays where I'm sure you can see it. You know, I'm so way behind. As you can tell I am as a director, exactly director. I am so not, you know, like, I should check the website. You know, I think I do, but but I'm always informant people, my team always let me know what's going on. I put it in their hands. I mean, why would I, why would I ask Alondra to, why would I say do this, do that, do that, you know, I don't when people send me stuff like my email. And I fall right to Alondra. That's how that's what I do. I don't say I don't work in our gallery that never touched a piece of art and I never hung a piece of art. So that's not that's not my job. So I know it's something that I want to say, but if I can't go in. Oh, yeah. So to be looking forward to our studio opening at the city place bro tomorrow, you walk right in off a church tree marketplace. And we used to be a camera shop. And we took over that spot. But it's going to be for our people to showcase their art to do their art. And we might have something and we might do a paint step by any time it's double no clothes, because I see as a pain step right on charity. Very well, but somebody's advisory team said we should do it, but I might look into that a little more because I don't want to do no pain step, take something from somebody who's been doing it and see my people successful. You know, it's kind of small and everybody works with them so I don't know if we're going to do that but you know, maybe painting painting tea or something. I don't prefer having alcohol, serving alcohol at our events. I don't prefer doing that. I don't, I don't, I don't like the liability for it. And I don't, you know, I don't want nobody getting paired, if they have to drive. And my advisor, my boy was definitely to you, we don't want to bite walking out, get hit by a truck, you know, because they, you know, so we don't actually, we don't. We don't want really nothing from alcohol sales. We, we like donated like seven years, seven years, you know, we don't, we don't, we don't, we don't want to proceed from that event. They got their own license, they got their own, they get their own license from the state that they show quickly. They say that we have our license and, you know, you know, you know, it looks I'm like, it looks I'm like this, you know, this is one of our sponsors. And then here's your license and so they'll put that up showing that well, yeah, we're good to serve at all at art so wonderful but when it comes down to you buying wine from them, we don't want to die. We don't want to die from that. What you bought. Now we will take donations from show. We don't care. We don't care if we get donations from because what we want is that you know, to have a real good event. Who don't like show me, come on. So vineyard is like, or fiddlehead or, or sponsors. I mean, who don't like to sponsor. They're the best. That's why we have our place for you. Not for us. Anyways, I guess I'm out of run out of things to say. I mean, I didn't run out of things to say but it's, it's something that I should be saying I'm like, Oh, oh, we're going to university mall we put incredible. I think I might say thousands was neural right in the full court. Yeah, I did say that. Oh God, go check it out is working with Michael Mullen. He's the target. And you see that mural behind that's in the targets behind the service desk. He's the guy who did that. And he's got to work with us to do it with like 15 artists that on my table came up with the concept. We're going to be in the mall going to go in the university mall full court and look at that meal and if you take a selfie. This is Mr. Rogers will she told me that if you take a selfie in front of that mural, and we got another one they call Vermont right across the way by our body about will. If you take a selfie for any of our murals, any of them a black lives matter is young house grocery beverage. We have tons of you. We will give you something said it put it sent it to a lot of the deal of question to our social media, and then you take a picture of you for any of our murals will send you some will give you something. Alrighty. So we're going to go closer and exactly right there by the wonderful service one day. And we just can continue to do. Oh, I knew it was going to hit me before I go. And this is quick. So, if you look around town and brought in particularly is the graffiti has been, it's been bombed up like the town is like incredibly bomb, where they call it a bomb the wall. We have 60% of the meals around. And so we also have a graffiti a bank man program that clean the graffiti, and we try to put murals on it, because in 2001 in my study, you put a mural over graffiti down. So, if you. We need volunteers because we're going to clean up free like crazy and put murals. You need some community service opportunities, or you just want to work with us to do these murals and clean up graffiti. You can meet Bruce Wilson, BLCW I'll that's all in 817 at email that comes here I want to be a part of your team and will be a baby program. And you know I'm not going to hesitate to contact it, because we need to we're trying to get our team together right now because March and soon it's going to be warmed up to really get some work done. So that's what I knew last weekend. Thank you very much for tuning into our so wonderful so I'm Bruce Wilson, and I'll talk to you soon.