 Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Woodruff and welcome to the Fort Report. You know, artistic masters weren't always masters. They had to get their start somewhere. So I'm here with Andrea Carnes, the curator at the Martin Art Museum. Andrea, I would love it if you could tell us a little bit more about the series. Okay, well we do three focus exhibitions a year and the idea behind the focus exhibitions is that they feature young, or it doesn't really matter the age of the artist, young and career emergent artist on an international scale. And the idea is that we're introducing works of these young artists to our audience here in DFW. Can you tell us about the artist that's featured right now? Yes, the artist's name is Katie Patterson. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1981. So she's very young and she lives and works currently in Berlin. Her work kind of focuses on the micro and the macro, kind of like how it takes every drop of water in the ocean to create the whole ocean or every tiny grain of sand in the desert has its role. It's always a metaphor in nature that makes us think about our role on the planet. That's very cool. Can you tell us about sort of the buzz that she has in the community and why? The buzz, part of the buzz is that she's so young to be so far in her career already and that she's such a deep thinker, almost like a poet, but she does it instead of on paper with words, she does it with the work that she creates. I'd love to hear about the artist that's going to be featured next. The artist who will be featured next is also a British artist. His name is Jed Quinn and he makes beautiful awe-inspiring landscape but the closer you look at it the more you realize that he's commenting on contemporary society and they're kind of this difficult puzzle to figure out but in the end it all comes together and really interesting stuff. Thank you Andrea, this has been really awesome. Thank you Alicia, it was fun. So for more information on the Focus Artist series you can always visit the modern's website and also for any other information about their exhibits. And if you have a budding artist at home then check out Drawing from the Collection for Children. Kids ages 5 to 12 are led through drawing exercises related to works in the collection. Attendance is limited so get there early. To learn more check out the modern website. So Andrea, I always thought I had potential. So what do you think? Security?