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[Music Playing]

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Oh, I like painting, I like doing clay.

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All artwork.

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This is one of my square drawings

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that I've done.

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This drawing I have done right here

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makes me feel good

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and I show my inspiration.

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My name is Jackie

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and I am going to take you on a tour.

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That is a ceramics class.

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This is the work class, right here

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and there's sewing right here.

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What're you sewing, Theresa?

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My magic robe.

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Oh, okay. Her magic robe. Okay.

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That's a teacher right here.

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How're you doing?

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It is a great equalizer.

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That transcends language.

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That transcends culture.

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That transcends disability.

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Creative growth is about

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artistic expression as a form of
self empowerment

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as a form of aesthetic development,
as a form of saying

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"this is who I am in the world".

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Blue is cold and yellow is warm.

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How do you know when you're reaching in 
there what you're getting?

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I can tell by the feel.

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Feel?

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Yep, the compartments, you know?

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So what is the feel of green?

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Green is like freezing,
red is hot.

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So you're working with freezing and hot
right now?

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Yes.

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Monica's been fascinated with color
ever since she was

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a wee child, and I think losing her sight
opened up a different connection

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to the world of light, and shadow,
and color.

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Do you have a favorite foam shape 
to work on?

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I like the logs,

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the cubes,

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the little tiny cubes,

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and the spheres.

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Logs, tiny cubes, and spheres.

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Yeah, and the cakes too.

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Yeah, and the cakes turned out great.

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Yep.

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I see her becoming more and more dedicated
to her art

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and it seems to fulfill her in deeper and 
deeper ways,

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and for that, I feel so happy.

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You know? Because she has so much to offer
the world.

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Yes, um, my name is Rosena Finister

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[Crowd whooping and clapping]

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and I'm from a small town where all the
poor people live at.

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That's where I'm from.

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This is the type of art that I 
started doing.

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Creative Growth currently serves 
162 artists at our studio every week.

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When people come to the Creative Growth
studio, for the most part

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they've never made art before 
in their lives,

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and we kind of welcome that.

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Because it allows us to see who they are.

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And, you know, there's no
right or wrong;

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we don't teach in a traditional way.

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We say, you know, "what would you like
to do?",

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"what are you thinking about", "what do 
you dream about",

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"what color do you like"?

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Tell us your story.

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[Jazzy music playing]

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I've been coming here since 1992

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I like paint, I like to draw, and
I like paintings of people --

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like, different people.

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And stars -- movie stars.

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There are wholesome people.

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Wholesome encounters.

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What do you like to look at?

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I like that one.

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This one?

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Yeah.

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Look at that one?
This is what?

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What do you call the name
of this painting?

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"Inner Limits".

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William is just such a brilliant artist.

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And look at this.

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Beautiful piece.

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Do you remember making this?

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I remember.

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That's what? Praise Frisco?

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Yeah.

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He envisions through his work
a utopian reality that he creates

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for us all to live in.

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A world where people who have died
come back to life,

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places where bad neighborhoods are safe,

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where his family is happy, 
where the world is peaceful.

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And, he believes the painting will be
powerful enough

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to make that a reality.

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Riding on the spaceship,
there's not gonna be no more evils.

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No more aliens, no more monsters,

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no more evils.

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Uh-huh.

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Creative Growth is really a
Bay Area story.

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The disability rights movement in the
early 1970s,

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Creative Growth really comes from that.

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So, during that time, people with
disabilities in institutions

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were suddenly deinstitutionalized.

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So, artists came together in Oakland,
and put paint on a table,

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and said "well, these people are gonna
come here; creativity is the path forward"

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I'm just doing a tree right now.

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And, people with disabilities can
communicate and be a vital part

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of society.

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Part of the Creative Growth plan to come 
here and make art,

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is that represents you, and you show your
work in the gallery.

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If the work sells, the artist gets half 
the money.

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Creative Growth, the nonprofit gets half
the money.

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We buy supplies and support the
artists with that money.

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If you came to Creative Growth, you may
buy something for 10 dollars,

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and you can buy something for 
75,000 dollars.

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It's exactly like the contemporary art
world.

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As an artist's work develops, and it gets
into collections, and museums,

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and highly sought after, the prices go up.

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And Creative Growth artists follow that
same path.

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Judith Scott is one of the most well-
known Creative Growth artists.

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As an artist, Judith Scott transcended
this difficult situation.

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Where she was separated from her
family and institutionalized

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for almost 40 years.

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She was Deaf and it wasn't known, so she
never developed language,

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and she was isolated.

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So in her 40's, she comes to 
Creative Growth.

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And, her method to talk to us

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was art.

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The process is very important to her

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and the result of that process