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young people or or really anyone in any demographic group
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name you have to earn or vote you have to promise us something and then
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deliver on it
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to the far left and the far right because they're the loudest and they're the
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Sheletta Brundidge is known as the autism mom
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not just because she's got three kids on the spectrum
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but because she's an advocate who works to educate and inspire other moms of
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kids with special needs
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hey everybody and welcome to taking authority over autism
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the podcast that is for buying about parents
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who have kids
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in their lives who they love who have been diagnosed on the spectrum
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and when I say parents I'm talking about the whole village mom with daddy Nana
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paul paul cousins aunties
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to raise a child it takes two villages
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to raise a child
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with autism
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and my son Brandon
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my second oldest child in the first one diagnosed with autism
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has a gift for art
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he loves to draw his very creative
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uh... and we were writing to st paul the other day running some errands
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and we saw all this artwork
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you know like the murals and stuff just pop it up all over the place all down
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the street
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and and we never would have never gone that way except the freeway was shut down
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and so it made all of us
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exit I-94
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go down
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and then go up and down university
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and like
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brand and look at this
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brand and i bet you can draw that
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brand and look at that you
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are you inspired to do
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some artwork like this i bet you can do a mural
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and it was so um... inspiring and engaging
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uh... a great conversation starter
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and it really helped
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to show him that hey that artwork
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it's not just for us to draw at home and hang up on the fridge
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but you can make a living
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and so i was like who is drawing on this stuff what is the stuff coming from now
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knows you know i've been working in media for twenty six years
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i am no see
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i got a no what's going on these just artworked in just pop up here
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so I said let me get Angela Casselton on the show
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she is executive director of the Creative Enterprise Zone
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okay, this, Angela, you got to solve this mystery for me
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or what's going on with all this artworked in my baby and i saw we were right
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down street the other day
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well first let me say how great fly-am that you noticed that you look around you
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that you see your environment that these
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images came to you and inspired you and that's what our goal is
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we're in a neighborhood that is full of creative people
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called the Creative Enterprise Zone because we recognize that there's artists
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who are contributing to our society they're contributing to our economy
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and they are changing our perspective every day
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at street level
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and so back in
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the Creative Enterprise Zone, the start was
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created as a nonprofit in two thousand and nine but prior to that we've been
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advocating for those creative people and so in twenty nineteen with the help
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of two of our partners we decided
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let's have a mural festival let's create murals let's take the creativity
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happening inside these buildings and move it to the outside
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and when i say creativity i want to be very clear it's not just about artists
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we have creative makers
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entrepreneurs inventors in this neighborhood
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so why not have somebody who's driving to this neighborhood
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understand that something special is happening here
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it's it's a lot about the makeup of the neighborhood which is historically
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industrial came up along the railroad
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so we have all these big commercial buildings and all these big wall
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that make perfect canvases
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for public art
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and it is beautiful you can definitely see it and i purposely and intentionally
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when you know my kids in our in the car together
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um... and and it was such a treat because otherwise everybody would have been
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you know what i mean nobody would have been looking up and
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you know so often times we miss what's going on
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in our community because i had the down
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and we're not looking up at what is happening
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all around us
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and it is definitely noticeable it puts uh... bright spot in your day it's a
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conversation starter there was a lot of owing and i
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because some of this stuff girl it is
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mind blowing the talent and you know you look at the talent and you think about
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the time and the effort and the energy
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it takes to put something like this together talk to me about some of the
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artists and some of your most talked about uh... pieces and where they
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feature so folks can find them
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sure um... well first of all i appreciate that you you have that policy i
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as a child was pretty bored in the backseat on a lot of car trips and so you can
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see what was around you and and to mark where you're at and i think google maps
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kind of robs us of that sometimes
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um... first i should say right now we're at seventy three murals but by the time this
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broadcast happens will be up to eighty just murals that produced by the creative
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enterprise zone. I would say there's another ten more that we'd either have a hand
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in or came before us but so we do have a definite gallery to peruse out there
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um... the artists are selected the first year we selected artists through a
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jury competition but ninety applications for twelve walls is pretty intense
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so we have since been inviting artists to join us and so
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we set out to accomplish a couple things when choosing artists
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um... first we wanted to make sure that we paid all artists that isn't necessarily true
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when you see yeah so paying an artist is extremely important to us
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also we wanted to make sure that we had enough artists that were underrepresented
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the mural festival market is sort of dominated by the usual suspects so we
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wanted to make sure that our underrepresented communities
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by-pock artists native artists women and career artists so we want to make sure
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that we also have a mission to represent about seventy percent of our murals that
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we add each year are local and then we've been able to invite some national and
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international artists to paint for us so we choose the artists we pay for them to
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come here or pay for the materials pay a fee and we negotiate with the building
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owners which um... can be tricky but we have a lot of amazing building
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owners who say yes and the best part of my conversation with the
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building owners to say here's a couple rules first we pick the artist
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and the artist picks the content and that's really doesn't always go over well
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because everybody's like but i sell widgets can you do a widget mural and that's not the case
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so too often an artist when they get a wall has to negotiate with community not
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that that's bad a lot of give and take there's a lot of ideas
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and that's a way from the creative process i think so but i understand why that
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happens but in this case the other thing we set out to do is to say this is a wall this
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is a canvas this is you to the you and i always tell an artist when they're
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saying well what should i sketch and i should say this mural is a and i say this
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mural is about you this is as much about you as it is for community and so give
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us your gift and so we feel artists do their best work when they're allowed to do
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their best work and that's a luxury we've been able to offer okay now you got yeah you
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got to tell me um because there are a lot of parents who have kids with autism that are
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amazing artists right and they're all over the twin cities the for me and my son you know we
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were just writing and we saw all this stuff and it was so inspiring and you know you can bring
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your sketchbook and sit there with your kid you know who may be non-verbal and just sit there
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and let them draw or recreate you know our kids have such great visual perception and depth
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perception and you know they're able to you know have photographic memories and recreate this
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and for hours they can sit there and draw and paint and be inspired so where can i go online
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to find out where the the murals and the artwork is so that my kids and i can take a real field trip
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and i just happen up on some artwork and be like oh what's that you know and be more intentional
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about being inspired by this work now that we have the backstory absolutely so one way to access
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our mural gallery is to go to creative enterprise zone dot org lot of a lot of ease in that
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that's one place to start and look for the link to the mural site so we have a special site just
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for the mural based on the festival and that's called chromazone.net and i have to spell it for you
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because it's not as how you think it is it's c-h-r-o-m-a-z-o-n-e.net and that has to do with chroma as in color
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not in your game. Ah okay all right okay okay all right if you go there if you go to that website you will
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see the artist name the location of the murals there is a google map there is a paper map
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you'll get their artist statement about the piece they created and what's the meaning behind it
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and i want to make a uh i want to point out a couple artists just a shout out we did a mural two years
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ago i want to say two or three years ago with an artist who identifies as autistic his name is Michael
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Engebretson it's a mural on university he is a member of the interact arts community and right
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here in the creative enterprise zone so that was a special opportunity with Michael he is adorable
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i love him and also there is a artist who identifies as neurodivergent her name is Xena Goldman and she
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created a very moving mural last year for us that has a lot to do with sensory issues and how she
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accommodation she makes and so it's really powerful but that's kind of the key is stories people
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connect to the stories the beautiful the techniques are amazing um the size or the scope or how they
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use the wall is amazing but it's the stories that hit our hearts i think yeah and you know those
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stories resonate with our children especially because you know representation matters if you don't
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see an autistic or neurodiverse person painting a mural you don't think you can do it either
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and you know i saw my kids eyes laid up my eyes lit up and then you know girl i'm telling you i have
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not bought a greeting card in years baby they do all the greeting cards they do all the get-well
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soon cards they do the graduation the birthday we are my neighbor god bless him he's got cancer
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he's going in for treatment today before he left don't you know that with three cards that my
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kids made it showed up at his door girl i'm telling you they do all mothers day by this day just so
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creative and how they put um items together the color the construction paper the shapes the
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sizes of things you know the spatial awareness it's their gift and it's all oftentimes especially
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for kids on the spectrum we try to steer them toward things that are difficult do this math say
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these words get up in front of people make this eye contact you know and and those are things that
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they also have to learn how to do over time right but you know we we oftentimes miss those great
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opportunities to help them engage in things that they enjoy like art absolutely absolutely i
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think the creative mind is a wonder and that ability to take what you you understand in your head
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on the paper is a gift and i also think we are also taught in society that there's not a lot of
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room for creative expression or that you you know the value is in other things but we find
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immense value value in creative expression and so i encourage all art and all creativity all the time
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well i just can't thank you enough for being on the show creative enterprise zone is dot com right
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yep no dot org word dot org okay creative inner zone enterprise creative enterprise zone dot org
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is where you need to go to get these stories to inspire your kids and take a fun free field trip
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girl listen we just spent all our money at the fair back to school shopping uh soccer basketball
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football cheerfee uh mortgage uh the electric bill from the summertime is atrocious and so this
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will be something free and fun get your clipboards get your paper get your uh color pencils and you
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know get inspired uh with all the amazing work that they've done with the creative enterprise zone
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to not only put the artwork up but to beautify the community miss angela thank you so much for this work
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the artist the building the zone and the the paying the the dignity the creativity the the honoring
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of the process all that you do uh to make this happen this is a this is a lot of different people
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y'all ain't just going up there just you know splash and paint on somebody's buildings you've got to do
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a whole lot of work before you know you reveal the the big uh the big the big piece and so i honor those
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efforts that you uh have to do behind the scenes to make stuff like this happen thank you that's
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someday it's feel harder than others but mostly it's joy i mean i have never known an artist who doesn't
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want to put joy back into the world and give a gift to the community and i feel incredibly privileged
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to witness it and i have stood next to artists well people have come by i've seen people shot out
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of car windows i've seen people weep openly on the street it is you can't really understand what you
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will create until you create it and you can't control the impact but you can see it i can feel it i can
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i i feel it's a gift to be part of this so thank you for the opportunity to talk about it and
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and you know well what it's like to get back to community i've seen you show up many many times for
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community and so that's i think that's really an important part of why we're on this planet so
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girl we all have our assignment we all have our assignment and it's so important that we get on our
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lane and we start keeping uh keep the movement going keep the momentum going until we get to the
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finish line because we never know how our actions are going to impact somebody else and you have
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had an amazing impact on my children and me and so many others who passed their artwork thank you
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so much Angela for being here well thank you thank you so much all right and thank y'all for
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tuning in get your kids out there get your color pencils get your crayon box get your white paper
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and and get your colored board and take your fun free field trips spend the afternoon bring your
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lunch and have a good time in Saint Paul in the creative enterprise zone we'll see y'all next week
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the only way you're gonna get listened to by republicans or democrats
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young people or or really anyone in any demographic group
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You know Sheletta makes you laugh.
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But did you know Sheletta Brundidge can also make you think?
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and booster business
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founded ShelettaMakesMeLaugh
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to celebrate and share the best of Black culture
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it's a podcasting platform
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Sheletta Brundidge is known as the autism mom
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not just because she's got three kids on the spectrum
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but because she's an advocate who works to educate and inspire other moms of
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kids with special needs
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hey everybody and welcome to taking authority over autism
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the podcast that is for buying about parents
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who have kids
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in their lives who they love who have been diagnosed on the spectrum
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and when I say parents I'm talking about the whole village mom with daddy Nana
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paul paul cousins aunties
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uncles relatives neighbors and church members
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everybody
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to raise a child it takes two villages
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to raise a child
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with autism
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and my son Brandon
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my second oldest child in the first one diagnosed with autism
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has a gift for art
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he loves to draw his very creative
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uh... and we were writing to st paul the other day running some errands
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and we saw all this artwork
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you know like the murals and stuff just pop it up all over the place all down
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the street
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and and we never would have never gone that way except the freeway was shut down
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and so it made all of us
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go down
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Cretin-Vandalia
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and then go up and down university
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and like
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brand and look at this
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brand and i bet you can draw that
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brand and look at that you
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are you inspired to do
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some artwork like this i bet you can do a mural
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and it was so um... inspiring and engaging
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uh... a great conversation starter
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and it really helped
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to show him that hey that artwork
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it's not just for us to draw at home and hang up on the fridge
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but you can make a living
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you can make an impact in your community
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through your craft
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and so i was like who is drawing on this stuff what is the stuff coming from now
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knows you know i've been working in media for twenty six years
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i am no see
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i got a no what's going on these just artworked in just pop up here
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so I said let me get Angela Casselton on the show
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she is executive director of the Creative Enterprise Zone
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okay, this, Angela, you got to solve this mystery for me
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or what's going on with all this artworked in my baby and i saw we were right
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down street the other day
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well first let me say how great fly-am that you noticed that you look around you
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that you see your environment that these
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images came to you and inspired you and that's what our goal is
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we're in a neighborhood that is full of creative people
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called the Creative Enterprise Zone because we recognize that there's artists
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who are contributing to our society they're contributing to our economy
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and they are changing our perspective every day
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at street level
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and so back in
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the Creative Enterprise Zone, the start was
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created as a nonprofit in two thousand and nine but prior to that we've been
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advocating for those creative people and so in twenty nineteen with the help
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of two of our partners we decided
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let's have a mural festival let's create murals let's take the creativity
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happening inside these buildings and move it to the outside
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and when i say creativity i want to be very clear it's not just about artists
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we have creative makers
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entrepreneurs inventors in this neighborhood
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so why not have somebody who's driving to this neighborhood
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understand that something special is happening here
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it's it's a lot about the makeup of the neighborhood which is historically
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industrial came up along the railroad
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so we have all these big commercial buildings and all these big wall
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that make perfect canvases
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for public art
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and it is beautiful you can definitely see it and i purposely and intentionally
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when you know my kids in our in the car together
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we don't bring devices
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we leave the devices at home
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um... and and it was such a treat because otherwise everybody would have been
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looking down
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you know what i mean nobody would have been looking up and
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you know so often times we miss what's going on
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in our community because i had the down
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and we're not looking up at what is happening
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all around us
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and it is definitely noticeable it puts uh... bright spot in your day it's a
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conversation starter there was a lot of owing and i
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because some of this stuff girl it is
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mind blowing the talent and you know you look at the talent and you think about
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the time and the effort and the energy
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it takes to put something like this together talk to me about some of the
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artists and some of your most talked about uh... pieces and where they
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feature so folks can find them
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sure um... well first of all i appreciate that you you have that policy i
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as a child was pretty bored in the backseat on a lot of car trips and so you can
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see what was around you and and to mark where you're at and i think google maps
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kind of robs us of that sometimes
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um... first i should say right now we're at seventy three murals but by the time this
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broadcast happens will be up to eighty just murals that produced by the creative
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enterprise zone. I would say there's another ten more that we'd either have a hand
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in or came before us but so we do have a definite gallery to peruse out there
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um... the artists are selected the first year we selected artists through a
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jury competition but ninety applications for twelve walls is pretty intense
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so we have since been inviting artists to join us and so
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we set out to accomplish a couple things when choosing artists
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um... first we wanted to make sure that we paid all artists that isn't necessarily true
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when you see yeah so paying an artist is extremely important to us
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also we wanted to make sure that we had enough artists that were underrepresented
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the mural festival market is sort of dominated by the usual suspects so we
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wanted to make sure that our underrepresented communities
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by-pock artists native artists women and career artists so we want to make sure
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that we also have a mission to represent about seventy percent of our murals that
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we add each year are local and then we've been able to invite some national and
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international artists to paint for us so we choose the artists we pay for them to
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come here or pay for the materials pay a fee and we negotiate with the building
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owners which um... can be tricky but we have a lot of amazing building
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owners who say yes and the best part of my conversation with the
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building owners to say here's a couple rules first we pick the artist
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and the artist picks the content and that's really doesn't always go over well
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because everybody's like but i sell widgets can you do a widget mural and that's not the case
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so too often an artist when they get a wall has to negotiate with community not
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that that's bad a lot of give and take there's a lot of ideas
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and that's a way from the creative process i think so but i understand why that
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happens but in this case the other thing we set out to do is to say this is a wall this
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is a canvas this is you to the you and i always tell an artist when they're
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saying well what should i sketch and i should say this mural is a and i say this
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mural is about you this is as much about you as it is for community and so give
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us your gift and so we feel artists do their best work when they're allowed to do
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their best work and that's a luxury we've been able to offer okay now you got yeah you
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got to tell me um because there are a lot of parents who have kids with autism that are
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amazing artists right and they're all over the twin cities the for me and my son you know we
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were just writing and we saw all this stuff and it was so inspiring and you know you can bring
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your sketchbook and sit there with your kid you know who may be non-verbal and just sit there
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and let them draw or recreate you know our kids have such great visual perception and depth
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perception and you know they're able to you know have photographic memories and recreate this
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and for hours they can sit there and draw and paint and be inspired so where can i go online
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to find out where the the murals and the artwork is so that my kids and i can take a real field trip
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and i just happen up on some artwork and be like oh what's that you know and be more intentional
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about being inspired by this work now that we have the backstory absolutely so one way to access
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our mural gallery is to go to creative enterprise zone dot org lot of a lot of ease in that
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that's one place to start and look for the link to the mural site so we have a special site just
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for the mural based on the festival and that's called chromazone.net and i have to spell it for you
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because it's not as how you think it is it's c-h-r-o-m-a-z-o-n-e.net and that has to do with chroma as in color
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not in your game. Ah okay all right okay okay all right if you go there if you go to that website you will
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see the artist name the location of the murals there is a google map there is a paper map
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you'll get their artist statement about the piece they created and what's the meaning behind it
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and i want to make a uh i want to point out a couple artists just a shout out we did a mural two years
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ago i want to say two or three years ago with an artist who identifies as autistic his name is Michael
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Engebretson it's a mural on university he is a member of the interact arts community and right
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here in the creative enterprise zone so that was a special opportunity with Michael he is adorable
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i love him and also there is a artist who identifies as neurodivergent her name is Xena Goldman and she
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created a very moving mural last year for us that has a lot to do with sensory issues and how she
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accommodation she makes and so it's really powerful but that's kind of the key is stories people
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connect to the stories the beautiful the techniques are amazing um the size or the scope or how they
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use the wall is amazing but it's the stories that hit our hearts i think yeah and you know those
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stories resonate with our children especially because you know representation matters if you don't
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see an autistic or neurodiverse person painting a mural you don't think you can do it either
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and you know i saw my kids eyes laid up my eyes lit up and then you know girl i'm telling you i have
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not bought a greeting card in years baby they do all the greeting cards they do all the get-well
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soon cards they do the graduation the birthday we are my neighbor god bless him he's got cancer
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he's going in for treatment today before he left don't you know that with three cards that my
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kids made it showed up at his door girl i'm telling you they do all mothers day by this day just so
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creative and how they put um items together the color the construction paper the shapes the
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sizes of things you know the spatial awareness it's their gift and it's all oftentimes especially
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for kids on the spectrum we try to steer them toward things that are difficult do this math say
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these words get up in front of people make this eye contact you know and and those are things that
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they also have to learn how to do over time right but you know we we oftentimes miss those great
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opportunities to help them engage in things that they enjoy like art absolutely absolutely i
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think the creative mind is a wonder and that ability to take what you you understand in your head
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on the paper is a gift and i also think we are also taught in society that there's not a lot of
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room for creative expression or that you you know the value is in other things but we find
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immense value value in creative expression and so i encourage all art and all creativity all the time
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well i just can't thank you enough for being on the show creative enterprise zone is dot com right
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yep no dot org word dot org okay creative inner zone enterprise creative enterprise zone dot org
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is where you need to go to get these stories to inspire your kids and take a fun free field trip
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girl listen we just spent all our money at the fair back to school shopping uh soccer basketball
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football cheerfee uh mortgage uh the electric bill from the summertime is atrocious and so this
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will be something free and fun get your clipboards get your paper get your uh color pencils and you
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know get inspired uh with all the amazing work that they've done with the creative enterprise zone
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to not only put the artwork up but to beautify the community miss angela thank you so much for this work
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the artist the building the zone and the the paying the the dignity the creativity the the honoring
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of the process all that you do uh to make this happen this is a this is a lot of different people
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y'all ain't just going up there just you know splash and paint on somebody's buildings you've got to do
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a whole lot of work before you know you reveal the the big uh the big the big piece and so i honor those
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efforts that you uh have to do behind the scenes to make stuff like this happen thank you that's
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someday it's feel harder than others but mostly it's joy i mean i have never known an artist who doesn't
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want to put joy back into the world and give a gift to the community and i feel incredibly privileged
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to witness it and i have stood next to artists well people have come by i've seen people shot out
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of car windows i've seen people weep openly on the street it is you can't really understand what you
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will create until you create it and you can't control the impact but you can see it i can feel it i can
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i i feel it's a gift to be part of this so thank you for the opportunity to talk about it and
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and you know well what it's like to get back to community i've seen you show up many many times for
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community and so that's i think that's really an important part of why we're on this planet so
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girl we all have our assignment we all have our assignment and it's so important that we get on our
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lane and we start keeping uh keep the movement going keep the momentum going until we get to the
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finish line because we never know how our actions are going to impact somebody else and you have
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had an amazing impact on my children and me and so many others who passed their artwork thank you
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so much Angela for being here well thank you thank you so much all right and thank y'all for
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tuning in get your kids out there get your color pencils get your crayon box get your white paper
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and and get your colored board and take your fun free field trips spend the afternoon bring your
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lunch and have a good time in Saint Paul in the creative enterprise zone we'll see y'all next week
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