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Hello everyone, and welcome to Behind the Bower. I'm Ryan Stephan,
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the executive director for Bauer Center for the Arts and
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beautiful Bedford, Virginia. This podcast is all about inspiring conversations,
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exploring the arts in our community, and shining spotlights on
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the incredible individuals and organizations that make Bedford arts scene
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so vibrant. I'm excited to welcome our guest today, Anna
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m Filiagi. Anna is now the newest member of the
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Bower Center team is our new programs and community relations manager.
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She's only been with us for about a week and
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a half, so today I want to talk with her
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and so you all and I can get to know
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a little bit more about her. Hello, Anna, I'm welcome.
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Hey, how's it going, guys?
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Good?
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So this is earlier than we normally meet, so thank
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you for coming here earlier. So let's start just by
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having you tell us everybody a little bit about yourself,
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your background, who.
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You are, all right? And so I am Anna.
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I am from Amhers County, born and raised. I went
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to school in lynch where I'm from Lynchburg, went to
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Longwood University, got my BFA Bachelor of Fighting Arts, specifically
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in painting and drawing, but I love to do all
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kinds of work.
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I like doing some.
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Paper making, stayed glass, primarily in abstract so and I've
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been doing a lot of instructing. That's kind of my background,
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doing kind of teaching, also programs for kids and also adults.
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And I'm just really excited to get that started here
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in Bedford at.
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The Bower soThe Yeah, we're excited to have you here.
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So one of the things I love to talk about
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on these podcasts are people's artistic journeys, how they got
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to where they are. So tell us a little bit
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about how your journey as an artist. First.
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Okay, so my family, actually I like to say that
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we're full of artists. I don't know if they would
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say that, but so my two aunts on my dad's
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side there actually they were artists, still are and they
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kind of showed me the ropes from.
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A little kid.
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And I've always kind of been tinkering around, whether that
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be with collage or painting have you. But yeah, I've
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kind of been doing it as a kid. And then
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in like high school, I was a like teacher assistant
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for my second grade teacher Mischemel. Yeah, and she really
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inspired me to want to be a teacher, but she
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always incorporated like art into every lesson and that was
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very inspiring to me. And going into Longwood, I wanted
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to be a teacher. And then I changed my mind
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and wanted and changed my major to art. And that
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was one of the best decisions I've ever made in
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my life.
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Yeah, arts are risky, you know, one of those risky majors.
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What made you decide let's just go for it.
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I had like an art art and minor art minor,
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and I kind of just wanted to explore that side more.
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I liked the classes better as well. The professors were
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very interesting and very like just wanted me to get
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going in that direction, and it just kind of fell
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into place.
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Yeah. So, and then you said you eventually fell into education,
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So what how did you land there? Even just temporarily?
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What did you eat to education?
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So it was kind of a risky kind of decision, honestly,
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because I was already working with Lynchburg Parks and wreck
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and I just kind of needed some extra income. But
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also I've worked with kids forever, so I was in
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summer camps for a while as well, And like I said,
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I've been working with kids for a while and going
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into like a school system was a little bit different
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for me, But it was also very cool to be
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on the other side of the desk kind of thing. Sure,
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And yeah, just kind of making curriculums was very cool
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but also very hard for me. But I'm excited to
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kind of bring that knowledge in at the hour Center.
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Yeah, when you have an artsy brain, sometimes the structure
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of what education wants it to look like and be
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a little challenging. So clearly you've been drawn into this
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world of the nonprofits in the service world. So what
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keeps you there as opposed to heading down a more
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traditional corporate path like a lot of people do.
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I would say just having focusing more on community is
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something I like to focus on, if you will, But
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because like getting to know that people better instead of
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it all being number based making sure our classes are
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full though too. Yeah, of course, but I want to
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get to know people like one on one, and I
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don't think you can really do that as well in
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a corporate setting.
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That's true, I mean, I think it's part of what
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I think what draws both of us here is there
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is a value to community. There is a value to
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seeing a person as a person who has thoughts and
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feelings and emotions, and we both have probably used art
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in our lives as that avenue. So to be able
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to give people that same opportunity unity is kind of
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what draws us there. So I know a little bit
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of this answer to the question, but what drew you
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to the Bower Center specifically, not being specifically from Bedford,
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what drew you to this job? What drew you to
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this area? What made you apply for this job? Gotcha?
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So actually, back in I want to say, like twenty twenty,
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I did apply for one of the shows, and that
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was kind of my first little knowing about the Bedford,
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Bedford area and the Bower Center.
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But pass forward to twenty twenty six. So Matt, he
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Matt Hovey, he actually.
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Messaged me on Facebook and was like, I think you'd
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be perfect for this role. So he kind of told
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me about it, so I'd be kind of perfect. And
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I read the job description and I was like, yeah,
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check check more, checkmore.
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I've done that. I've done that, and it was kind
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of a per fit.
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Again, doing the programming side of the arts is kind
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of my wheelhouse, so.
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Yeah, I do feel like, in full disclosure, the arts
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world is small, you know, and when you're looking at
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Virginia Arts folks, you know. Matt and I met through beals, honestly,
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and a lot of the people who've listened to this
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know that I was Appeals for a long time. But
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he's also a technical director and lighting designer for Wolfmane.
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So he still lives in that arts world, right, just
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a different side of it, and so it's it's nice
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that he knew the arts minded people who would be
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a good fit for what this is. Like, you said
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your background is mostly in being an instructor, So what
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kind of specifically for you, what kind of programs or
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classes or workshops did you most enjoy teaching and why.
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Okay, so I've kind of very hinted about this, but
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like papermaking is one of my big ones.
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It's super fun and like hands on.
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A little bit messy, and that's what I kind of
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love about art is that you don't have to be.
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So neat every time. It's more process based and like.
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Getting your hands wet and dirty. I also like working
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with stained glass, different type of getting messy. It's a
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little bit more strategic having to do the different steps
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with it, so.
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Like picking picking out your.
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Design, and then also cutting the glass, grinding it and
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everything soldering it together. I'm definitely wanting to bring those
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two types of art to the Bauer Center. I'm also
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a painter and doing kind of landscapes as well.
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Yeah, it's interesting you bring up paper making and stained
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glass in the same phrase, because to me they seem
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very opposite, Like paper making is very organic and you
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kind of get what you get as you're making it
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and as it happens, whereas staying glass, at least to me,
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is very planned, very precision based. It might be messy
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when you're doing it. So it's interesting that you enjoy
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arts on both sides of those scales.
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Right exactly. I think it would be said to like
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my best friend read They really kind of pushed me.
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To be more messy when it comes to that, but yeah,
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I love getting my hands. Yeah.
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So would you say there's anything about your artistic practice
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or your artistic background that is informed the way you
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approach teaching a class.
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I would say, like making sure that there is kind
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of a reference sheet for like the students so they
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have something to be like, Okay, what step are we
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on if it is more step by stated process like
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staying glass. I think it's important for the students to
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be able to see what they're going to be making,
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but they don't need to know that it will be
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exactly at the end. Getting to the final product isn't
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always right. The main thing.
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Two schools a thought in here. Do you like to
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give people an example of a finished product or do
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you like to never give an example of a finished product?
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I give them there's two different schools of thought there
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about what it should be. So as our programming manager, yes,
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all right, you're going to oversee all kinds of programming.
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So clearly, you know, educational programming to your wheelhouse, that's
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what you know, that's what you have the most experience in.
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But we have all kinds of educational programs at the
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Bower Center. So we do have a concert and performance season,
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we have educational programs that include classes and workshops and
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summer camps, and we have outreach initiatives like cab Kids
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and artworks. So I'd love to dig in philosophically to
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each of those a little bit. So you know, when
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we talked to earlier, you said concerts and performances were
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the one part that you feel like you don't know
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very much about. So what I'd ask you is, what
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do you feel like is as somebody who now gets
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to be at the table to make some of these decisions,
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what do you feel like the purpose for offering concerts
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and performances at an art center should be or could
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be that is maybe different from the concerts or performances
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you see at a restaurant or a coffee shop or
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a brewery, or even like big commercial arenas where they
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have thousands of scenes.
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I gotcha.
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I think it's important to have it at the art
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center just because it's more accessible to a lot of people,
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whether they don't want to go out to a bar.
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Because maybe they're not drinking.
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Not drinking right now, or if it's it's also like
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when it comes to them being at a bar or restaurant,
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I feel like that's more like background noise, and like
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when you go to a restaurant, it's more for like
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social outings, But when you're at like the art center,
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I think it's more of like you're focused primarily on
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the artist. I got to see that the noon.
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And the Bower Center is I think specifically different because
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we're very very intimate. We've got, you know, a house
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that seats maybe one hundred people. You know, it is
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an old chapel, so it is very acoustically resident. It
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doesn't really need lots of amplification if you're standing on
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the stage facing everybody else. So, you know, you mentioned
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getting to see Noah, and one of the things I
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said when he came in this weekend is like, it's
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just you and a guitar up there, and you don't
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need a whole lot else, right, And I think that
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that's part of its uniqueness as a performance center.
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The sound was beautiful.
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Yeah, the sound is gorgeous. I would love to work
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on the lighting at some point, but it we'll get
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there small projects. So the Bower Center also has offered
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classes in camps for a long time, and as we
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all know, like classes, camps and workshops are like the
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staples of art center and have been as long as
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art centers have been around. So this is gonna sound
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like an obvious question. You know, you know, why do
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we offer classes and workshop and camps? And everybody says, well,
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because you're an art center. I would like you to
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think or dig into more deeply, Why do you think
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there what is the bigger purpose behind offering art classes
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and camps in a small town art center.
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It's bringing like people together, creating that art community. I've
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always had that kind of like as a kid, and
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sometimes other families they don't have the space for it.
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And bringing those other families together, making friends and all
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that is really important, and I feel like art can
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definitely do that instead of maybe joining a sport team,
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maybe you're more artistic and having a space for those
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kids is, like I said, very important.
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Yeah, it's fun as a director to dip into classes,
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which I try to do pretty frequently, where I just
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kind of stop in see what's going on, taking what's happening,
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and of course they're making art, and of course they're
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having a good time. But I feel like what I
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notice most is the immediate community they're having. You know,
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they're talking the whole time, they're joking around, they're strategizing,
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they're they're talking about what's working and what's not. But
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five or six years ago, and I was kind of
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looking for my people, you know, as an artistic person,
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you know, I was like, where are the other artistic people?
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my first introduction to the family that is the Bearer Center,
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you know, and I have definitely veered outside of the
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pottery world. Turns out, I'm still not very good at
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throwing anything on a wheel. Even though it's fun, it
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takes practice and I do not practice enough. But I
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do think I think you highlighted the community aspect is
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really kind of an important part of that.
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look different in lots of different ways. So sometimes we're
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going to have community engagement boosts where we go to
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local festivals or activities like the d Day Family Day
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that's coming up in a couple of weeks, or a
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Clater Nature Center children's festival that was a couple of
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weeks ago. We also have cab Kids programming, so that's
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creative at the Bower Kids, which is built for families
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and children as its primary focus. And then we've also
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started the heart Works program, which is geared towards bringing
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healthy and healing properties of arts to target a group
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specifically in need. I've told you from the very beginning,
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like this gets to be your baby. The outreach is
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the part that's probably the most in its infancy. We're
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trying to figure out how to build it, how to
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grow it. So stepping back in knowing that that's part
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of that responsibility, why do you think outreach in general
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is important to an art center?
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out there, shake people's ants, kind of meet everybody. And
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I just really am excited to like know this community
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better since I'm not from Bedford, but I'm kind of
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just hitting all the like central Virginia spots at this point.
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Bedford is a very welcoming area. It's you know, they
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they respect and invest heavily in the people who invest in.
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I feel like I've seen that reward a lot. They
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know that I care, they know that I love the arts,
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they know that I want to bring it in every
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way that I can. And I know like that was
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obvious to me from you, even from the interview, Like
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this is something that you love and you want to
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bring it to people because you want to share what
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you love with the people who are around you. I'm
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not going to ask what you have planned coming up.
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I don't know you. I don't know if you feel
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like you've been here long enough to have any of
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those decisions or have any of those thoughts. Yet, what
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I will say is, what are you most excited about
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in this job?
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The fact that I do get to teach and also
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just having my voice heard when it comes to programming
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is just so exciting.
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I have this opportunity to build something that can make
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a true difference or mark in a small town. And
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and we've just handed to you said what are you
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making exactly? So you know, we're for those of you
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that don't know that are listening, We're and I'm dreaming
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here for a little bit. We're at our twentieth anniversary.
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This Yearer Center's been around for twenty years, so in
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five years, in our twenty fifth anniversary, what do you
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hope to see programming in general at the Bower Center?
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more art mediums being like explored for sure, and then
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also just like bringing in more variety when it comes
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to like class like pricing and size as well.
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I hope that it continues to grow as a community.
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in my time there, that it keeps growing and growing
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and growing and more people are finding it and I love,
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you know, just a couple a few days ago, I
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had two different couples that came into the gallery because
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they were just walking around nice you know, one was
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in for the week because they were just there, and
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one had just recently moved here, and they were like,
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one of the best parts that I saw is that
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both of those couples came to the Noah Spencer concert nice,
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you know, and it's just because I had mentioned it
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in passing. I'm like, hey, if you want to see
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the other artsy people in town, here's where they're going
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to be, you know. And both of them made a
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point to catch me after the concerts say I'm so
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glad that you asked me to come back to this.
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community one person or one couple at a time, it's
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great to continue to see it's couple exactly exactly, all right.
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So I love to ask this as my last final
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question because everybody has very strong feelings about it. Why
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is art important?
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outlet to express ourselves and also just kind of take
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a step back from all the hard things that are
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happening in the world and having a like space to
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just kind of relax and just get maybe art relaxed.
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do that too. And having that place where you have
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your voice being heard, even if you don't even end
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up showing your work, it can be just for yourself.
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with their hands. Oh yeah, you know. And you know,
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for some people that is gardening, for some people that
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is cooking, and for a large network of people that
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is creating art that is either meant to be seen
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by anyone or no one, right, you know, sometimes it's
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about the process itself that helps you just line up
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in your head what you're thinking, what you're feeling, and
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giving a physical outlet to make it happen exactly. Well,
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thank you so much, Anna for joining us and taking
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time out of your second week right to jump into
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this hot seat and let us get to know you.
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If you are around the Bower Center, please stop by
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and introduce yourself to her. She's downstairs in the office.
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You know where it is if you've been there. And
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since this is a podcast about programming, let me remind
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you of some of the programming that we do have
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coming up in store for you for the next few months.
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On May sixteenth, locals Win Creasey and CW. Markham the
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third we'll return to the stage, this time with their
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Spring cabaret. Lovers and other strangers, get your tickets soon.
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They're going fast. On June thirteenth, we're bringing in with
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the support of the Virginia Commission for the Arts via
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Kalas Simone Trio out Ofhampton Roads. They're going to bring
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us an evening of R and B, soul and jazz.
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It's going to be a great trio. And then in
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July we welcome back to our stage the bluegrass trio
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Virginia Hollow out of Floyd. All of those concerts are
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going to start at six o'clock PM. Advanced tickets are
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only twenty dollars. You can get them online or you
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can call. Opening in just one week in our galleries
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is the annual Bedford County Public Schools Middle school and
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high School are shows for the month of April and
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then and we're pretty excited to get to announce this
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from May seventh until August seventh. We're really excited to
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partner with the National d Day Memorial to bring you
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the Life and Art of Charles Schultz Exhibition. This is
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a traveling exhibition that we're bringing in town for the
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summer in our twentieth birthday and their twenty fifth birthday
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joint celebrations. For those of you that don't know Charles
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Schultz of his Peanuts fame, was the capital campaign manager
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for the National D Day Memorial from nineteen ninety eight
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until his death in two thousand. That's his local connection.
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Our educational schedule is so full of our opportunities. I
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don't think I could highlight every single one of them.
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We've got classes, camps alike for adults and kids, and
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you can see all kinds of classes in painting, mosaics, clay,
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whatever you can think of, and Anna is going to
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keep growing that pot to different things as well. For
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more details on all of our classes, events, programs, exhibitions,
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you can visitcenter dot org, follow us on social media,
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or like I said earlier, just stop in and say hello,
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thank you everybody for listening, and we will see you
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all soon
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Hello everyone, and welcome to Behind the Bower. I'm Ryan Stephan,
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the executive director for Bauer Center for the Arts and
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beautiful Bedford, Virginia. This podcast is all about inspiring conversations,
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exploring the arts in our community, and shining spotlights on
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the incredible individuals and organizations that make Bedford arts scene
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so vibrant. I'm excited to welcome our guest today, Anna
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m Filiagi. Anna is now the newest member of the
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Bower Center team is our new programs and community relations manager.
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She's only been with us for about a week and
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a half, so today I want to talk with her
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and so you all and I can get to know
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a little bit more about her. Hello, Anna, I'm welcome.
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Hey, how's it going, guys?
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Good?
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So this is earlier than we normally meet, so thank
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you for coming here earlier. So let's start just by
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having you tell us everybody a little bit about yourself,
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your background, who.
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You are, all right? And so I am Anna.
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I am from Amhers County, born and raised. I went
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to school in lynch where I'm from Lynchburg, went to
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Longwood University, got my BFA Bachelor of Fighting Arts, specifically
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in painting and drawing, but I love to do all
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doing kind of teaching, also programs for kids and also adults.
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The Bower soThe Yeah, we're excited to have you here.
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So one of the things I love to talk about
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on these podcasts are people's artistic journeys, how they got
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to where they are. So tell us a little bit
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about how your journey as an artist. First.
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we're full of artists. I don't know if they would
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say that, but so my two aunts on my dad's
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kind of been doing it as a kid. And then
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for my second grade teacher Mischemel. Yeah, and she really
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to be a teacher. And then I changed my mind
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into like a school system was a little bit different
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for me, But it was also very cool to be
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on the other side of the desk kind of thing. Sure,
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but also very hard for me. But I'm excited to
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kind of bring that knowledge in at the hour Center.
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of what education wants it to look like and be
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a little challenging. So clearly you've been drawn into this
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world of the nonprofits in the service world. So what
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keeps you there as opposed to heading down a more
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traditional corporate path like a lot of people do.
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something I like to focus on, if you will, But
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because like getting to know that people better instead of
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it all being number based making sure our classes are
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full though too. Yeah, of course, but I want to
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get to know people like one on one, and I
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don't think you can really do that as well in
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a corporate setting.
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I think what draws both of us here is there
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is a value to community. There is a value to
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seeing a person as a person who has thoughts and
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feelings and emotions, and we both have probably used art
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in our lives as that avenue. So to be able
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to give people that same opportunity unity is kind of
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what draws us there. So I know a little bit
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of this answer to the question, but what drew you
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to the Bower Center specifically, not being specifically from Bedford,
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what drew you to this job? What drew you to
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this area? What made you apply for this job? Gotcha?
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I did apply for one of the shows, and that
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was kind of my first little knowing about the Bedford,
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Bedford area and the Bower Center.
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Matt Hovey, he actually.
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be perfect for this role. So he kind of told
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me about it, so I'd be kind of perfect. And
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I read the job description and I was like, yeah,
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check check more, checkmore.
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I've done that. I've done that, and it was kind
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of a per fit.
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of my wheelhouse, so.
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world is small, you know, and when you're looking at
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Virginia Arts folks, you know. Matt and I met through beals, honestly,
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and a lot of the people who've listened to this
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know that I was Appeals for a long time. But
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he's also a technical director and lighting designer for Wolfmane.
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a different side of it, and so it's it's nice
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that he knew the arts minded people who would be
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a good fit for what this is. Like, you said
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your background is mostly in being an instructor, So what
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kind of specifically for you, what kind of programs or
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classes or workshops did you most enjoy teaching and why.
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like papermaking is one of my big ones.
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love about art is that you don't have to be.
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with stained glass, different type of getting messy. It's a
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little bit more strategic having to do the different steps
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everything soldering it together. I'm definitely wanting to bring those
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two types of art to the Bauer Center. I'm also
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a painter and doing kind of landscapes as well.
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glass in the same phrase, because to me they seem
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very opposite, Like paper making is very organic and you
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kind of get what you get as you're making it
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is very planned, very precision based. It might be messy
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when you're doing it. So it's interesting that you enjoy
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arts on both sides of those scales.
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Right exactly. I think it would be said to like
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my best friend read They really kind of pushed me.
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or your artistic background that is informed the way you
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I would say, like making sure that there is kind
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of a reference sheet for like the students so they
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have something to be like, Okay, what step are we
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on if it is more step by stated process like
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staying glass. I think it's important for the students to
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be able to see what they're going to be making,
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but they don't need to know that it will be
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exactly at the end. Getting to the final product isn't
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always right. The main thing.
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Two schools a thought in here. Do you like to
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give people an example of a finished product or do
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you like to never give an example of a finished product?
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I give them there's two different schools of thought there
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about what it should be. So as our programming manager, yes,
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all right, you're going to oversee all kinds of programming.
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what you know, that's what you have the most experience in.
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Bower Center. So we do have a concert and performance season,
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we have educational programs that include classes and workshops and
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summer camps, and we have outreach initiatives like cab Kids
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and artworks. So I'd love to dig in philosophically to
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each of those a little bit. So you know, when
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we talked to earlier, you said concerts and performances were
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the one part that you feel like you don't know
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very much about. So what I'd ask you is, what
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do you feel like is as somebody who now gets
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to be at the table to make some of these decisions,
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what do you feel like the purpose for offering concerts
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and performances at an art center should be or could
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be that is maybe different from the concerts or performances
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you see at a restaurant or a coffee shop or
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a brewery, or even like big commercial arenas where they
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have thousands of scenes.
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I gotcha.
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I think it's important to have it at the art
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center just because it's more accessible to a lot of people,
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whether they don't want to go out to a bar.
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when it comes to them being at a bar or restaurant,
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when you go to a restaurant, it's more for like
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social outings, But when you're at like the art center,
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I think it's more of like you're focused primarily on
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the artist. I got to see that the noon.
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we're very very intimate. We've got, you know, a house
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that seats maybe one hundred people. You know, it is
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an old chapel, so it is very acoustically resident. It
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doesn't really need lots of amplification if you're standing on
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the stage facing everybody else. So, you know, you mentioned
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getting to see Noah, and one of the things I
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said when he came in this weekend is like, it's
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just you and a guitar up there, and you don't
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need a whole lot else, right, And I think that
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that's part of its uniqueness as a performance center.
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The sound was beautiful.
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on the lighting at some point, but it we'll get
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there small projects. So the Bower Center also has offered
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classes in camps for a long time, and as we
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all know, like classes, camps and workshops are like the
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staples of art center and have been as long as
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art centers have been around. So this is gonna sound
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like an obvious question. You know, you know, why do
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we offer classes and workshop and camps? And everybody says, well,
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because you're an art center. I would like you to
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think or dig into more deeply, Why do you think
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there what is the bigger purpose behind offering art classes
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and camps in a small town art center.
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always had that kind of like as a kid, and
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sometimes other families they don't have the space for it.
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that is really important, and I feel like art can
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definitely do that instead of maybe joining a sport team,
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maybe you're more artistic and having a space for those
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kids is, like I said, very important.
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which I try to do pretty frequently, where I just
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kind of stop in see what's going on, taking what's happening,
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and of course they're making art, and of course they're
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having a good time. But I feel like what I
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notice most is the immediate community they're having. You know,
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they're talking the whole time, they're joking around, they're strategizing,
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they're they're talking about what's working and what's not. But
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it is definitely that sense of community that happens. And
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the Bower Center myself. You know, I moved here about
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five or six years ago, and I was kind of
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looking for my people, you know, as an artistic person,
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you know, I was like, where are the other artistic people?
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my first introduction to the family that is the Bearer Center,
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you know, and I have definitely veered outside of the
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pottery world. Turns out, I'm still not very good at
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throwing anything on a wheel. Even though it's fun, it
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takes practice and I do not practice enough. But I
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do think I think you highlighted the community aspect is
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really kind of an important part of that.
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look different in lots of different ways. So sometimes we're
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going to have community engagement boosts where we go to
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local festivals or activities like the d Day Family Day
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that's coming up in a couple of weeks, or a
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Clater Nature Center children's festival that was a couple of
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weeks ago. We also have cab Kids programming, so that's
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creative at the Bower Kids, which is built for families
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and children as its primary focus. And then we've also
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started the heart Works program, which is geared towards bringing
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healthy and healing properties of arts to target a group
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specifically in need. I've told you from the very beginning,
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like this gets to be your baby. The outreach is
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the part that's probably the most in its infancy. We're
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trying to figure out how to build it, how to
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grow it. So stepping back in knowing that that's part
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of that responsibility, why do you think outreach in general
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is important to an art center?
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out there, shake people's ants, kind of meet everybody. And
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I just really am excited to like know this community
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better since I'm not from Bedford, but I'm kind of
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just hitting all the like central Virginia spots at this point.
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Bedford is a very welcoming area. It's you know, they
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they respect and invest heavily in the people who invest in.
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know that I care, they know that I love the arts,
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they know that I want to bring it in every
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way that I can. And I know like that was
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obvious to me from you, even from the interview, Like
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this is something that you love and you want to
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bring it to people because you want to share what
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you love with the people who are around you. I'm
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not going to ask what you have planned coming up.
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I don't know you. I don't know if you feel
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like you've been here long enough to have any of
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those decisions or have any of those thoughts. Yet, what
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in this job?
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The fact that I do get to teach and also
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just having my voice heard when it comes to programming
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is just so exciting.
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but certainly you know it's exciting to say, you know,
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I have this opportunity to build something that can make
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a true difference or mark in a small town. And
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and we've just handed to you said what are you
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making exactly? So you know, we're for those of you
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that don't know that are listening, We're and I'm dreaming
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here for a little bit. We're at our twentieth anniversary.
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This Yearer Center's been around for twenty years, so in
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five years, in our twenty fifth anniversary, what do you
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hope to see programming in general at the Bower Center?
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Look like, I think we just I want to have
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more art mediums being like explored for sure, and then
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also just like bringing in more variety when it comes
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to like class like pricing and size as well.
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And we're kind of working on that. Yeah.
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Yeah, so definitely increasing some of that, you know. And
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I'll tag in here and say that I you know,
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I hope that it continues to grow as a community.
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It's something that I've seen started to happen at least
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in my time there, that it keeps growing and growing
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and growing and more people are finding it and I love,
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you know, just a couple a few days ago, I
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had two different couples that came into the gallery because
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they were just walking around nice you know, one was
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in for the week because they were just there, and
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one had just recently moved here, and they were like,
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I just want to see what this place is. And
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one of the best parts that I saw is that
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both of those couples came to the Noah Spencer concert nice,
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you know, and it's just because I had mentioned it
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in passing. I'm like, hey, if you want to see
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the other artsy people in town, here's where they're going
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to be, you know. And both of them made a
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point to catch me after the concerts say I'm so
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glad that you asked me to come back to this.
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And so, you know, even if we're growing the Bower
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community one person or one couple at a time, it's
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great to continue to see it's couple exactly exactly, all right.
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So I love to ask this as my last final
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question because everybody has very strong feelings about it. Why
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is art important?
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I think it's important because then we have like an
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outlet to express ourselves and also just kind of take
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a step back from all the hard things that are
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happening in the world and having a like space to
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just kind of relax and just get maybe art relaxed.
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Maybe you need to get some aggression out, you can
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do that too. And having that place where you have
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your voice being heard, even if you don't even end
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up showing your work, it can be just for yourself.
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I think that's really important.
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Yeah. I mean there's a lot of people who process
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with their hands. Oh yeah, you know. And you know,
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for some people that is gardening, for some people that
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is cooking, and for a large network of people that
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is creating art that is either meant to be seen
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by anyone or no one, right, you know, sometimes it's
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about the process itself that helps you just line up
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in your head what you're thinking, what you're feeling, and
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giving a physical outlet to make it happen exactly. Well,
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thank you so much, Anna for joining us and taking
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time out of your second week right to jump into
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this hot seat and let us get to know you.
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If you are around the Bower Center, please stop by
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and introduce yourself to her. She's downstairs in the office.
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You know where it is if you've been there. And
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since this is a podcast about programming, let me remind
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you of some of the programming that we do have
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coming up in store for you for the next few months.
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On May sixteenth, locals Win Creasey and CW. Markham the
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third we'll return to the stage, this time with their
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Spring cabaret. Lovers and other strangers, get your tickets soon.
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They're going fast. On June thirteenth, we're bringing in with
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the support of the Virginia Commission for the Arts via
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Kalas Simone Trio out Ofhampton Roads. They're going to bring
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us an evening of R and B, soul and jazz.
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It's going to be a great trio. And then in
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July we welcome back to our stage the bluegrass trio
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Virginia Hollow out of Floyd. All of those concerts are
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going to start at six o'clock PM. Advanced tickets are
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only twenty dollars. You can get them online or you
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can call. Opening in just one week in our galleries
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is the annual Bedford County Public Schools Middle school and
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high School are shows for the month of April and
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then and we're pretty excited to get to announce this
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from May seventh until August seventh. We're really excited to
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partner with the National d Day Memorial to bring you
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the Life and Art of Charles Schultz Exhibition. This is
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a traveling exhibition that we're bringing in town for the
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summer in our twentieth birthday and their twenty fifth birthday
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joint celebrations. For those of you that don't know Charles
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Schultz of his Peanuts fame, was the capital campaign manager
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for the National D Day Memorial from nineteen ninety eight
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until his death in two thousand. That's his local connection.
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Our educational schedule is so full of our opportunities. I
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don't think I could highlight every single one of them.
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We've got classes, camps alike for adults and kids, and
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you can see all kinds of classes in painting, mosaics, clay,
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whatever you can think of, and Anna is going to
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keep growing that pot to different things as well. For
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more details on all of our classes, events, programs, exhibitions,
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you can visitcenter dot org, follow us on social media,
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or like I said earlier, just stop in and say hello,
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thank you everybody for listening, and we will see you
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all soon
