- [Announcer] Production of Applause on Ideastream Public Media is made possible by the John P. Murphy Foundation, The Kulas Foundation, and by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

(upbeat theme music) (upbeat theme music) (upbeat theme music) (upbeat theme music) (upbeat theme music) - [Kabir] Coming up, a behind the scenes look at "Antiques Roadshow," as the appraisers descend on Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron.

Plus, everyone loves Parade the Circle, especially now that it's back after a three year pandemic pause.

And a pair of Cleveland jazz legends gets ready for the 2023 Tri-C JazzFest.

(upbeat theme music) Thanks for joining this summer cornucopia of arts and culture, here on Applause.

I'm Ideastream Public Media's Kabir Bhatia.

(upbeat theme music) (upbeat music) Thousands of people from Ohio and surrounding states flocked to Akron's Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens for a taping of the popular PBS series, "Antiques Roadshow."

Dozens of appraisers were on site to examine items from books and artwork, to toys, musical instruments, and everything in between.

(fun upbeat music) - We're here in season 28.

I started doing the show in season four.

So it starts with, do you have space for "Antiques Roadshow?"

Yeah?

We come make sure it will really work for us before we invest the time of planning to come here.

And it worked out perfectly.

And we also won, take a look, it's beautiful.

(fun upbeat music) - In general, I think that if you interview any appraiser here, they will tell you that the best things have only gotten more valuable, while the things that are sort of lesser things, middle market or lower, have gone down in value.

- All right.

- Okay, we thank you.

- Thank you for coming in.

(fun upbeat music) - There's a lot of good pottery here.

And you're gonna see some great pottery here in Ohio.

What else are we gonna see?

I can't wait to know.

I don't know.

- So we're seeing today, a lot of prehistoric artifacts.

Arrowheads.

A lot of variety in arrowheads, I should say.

(fun upbeat music) - If we want to sort of look at something that was made in Ohio, that has increased in value: stoneware.

Akron, this area was the center of stoneware production in Ohio.

(fun upbeat music) - What makes a great segment?

Story is key.

That is number one.

Good story.

Unusual item.

Have you seen it before?

Can you easily look it up online?

I mean, we're here today, you have approximately 70 appraisers on set.

The country's top experts who can answer questions you can't search for online.

(fun upbeat music) - I'm from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

It's a very old book.

It's a handwritten manuscript from 1792, which is titled, "An Essay on Clock Making."

(fun upbeat music) - Seems like a lot of people, they wanna know more.

Even just sort of the backstory, the iconography.

Of course everybody wants to know what it's worth, but, the story's more of its own story, its own backstory.

'Cause a lot of this seems to have come in through families.

It was grandma's, it was my aunt's.

(fun upbeat music) - This is my cousin, so.

And I've been visiting because we were coming to "Antiques Roadshow."

It's a painting actually by Aunt Martha.

- Our grandfather's aunt.

So we weren't caring about the appraisal, we just wanted to know if there was more history than we could find, from the time period.

(fun upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Carrie.

I'm from Solon, Ohio.

- [Interviewer] And what brought you here today?

- And I brought my dad's Gibson ES-335.

It's a 1966 in Cherry Red, in perfect condition.

He said it looks really great for its age.

It's all original.

And we're gonna just pass it down through the family.

(fun upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Aurora and I'm from Barberton, A.K.A.

the Magic City.

- Hi, I'm her grandmother, Debbie.

And we've got this comic book, - Brother Voodoo.

- and it was $100.

My son gave it to her just to give it to her, and here it's $100, and we love it.

- Yeah.

- And we actually touch people's lives, and maybe make a difference, maybe not.

This is a place where there's a community, there's education, there's love.

Differences melt away.

And we need more of that in this world.

And that's one of the things I love about this day.

(fun upbeat music decrescendo) - [Kabir] The "Antiques Roadshow" episodes filmed at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens are scheduled to air in 2024, on WVIZ and the PBS app.

(soft upbeat music) Northeast Ohio has a strong presence in the world of antiques and collectibles, in large part, thanks to this respected expert.

For a half century, collectors of all stripes have turned to antiques authority, Terry Kovel.

The Shaker Heights resident has scores of historic toys, outdated kitchen gadgets, and various kinds of pottery packed in her home office.

It's a busy operation, where Kovel has held court over cast off bits of popular culture.

Ideastream Public Media's David C. Barnett shares this profile from 2017.

(music box plays) (music box plays) - [David] Terry Kovel says the start of her obsession with collectibles dates back to a purchase almost 80 years ago.

- The mustache cup.

We were at Niagara Falls, and I had been given, I think it may have been $1 to spend.

And my mother kept saying, "I'm gonna take the money back if you don't buy something."

So I looked at everything and I decided I'd buy this cup for a quarter.

See, if you had a mustache, this kept it from getting wet when you drank the coffee.

- [David] She doesn't know why she decided on the mustache cup exactly, but it was ground zero for a stockpile of stuff that continues to grow.

(exciting upbeat music) The home that she and her late husband, Ralph, built in the 1950s, is filled with a wide ranging collection.

Everything from classy to kitch.

(exciting upbeat music) Ancient egg beaters, vintage road signs, and countless other objects.

(soft exciting upbeat music) - Now I can't see today's kid being very entertained by something that's quite that slow.

It is something that's in the genes, I'm convinced.

And somebody claims, in some of the psychology things, that it's like nuts and squirrels.

The squirrel that can get the best nut is the one that survives.

- [David] And the Kovels established an antiques and collectibles empire that has survived for over 60 years.

Starting in 1953, with a book explaining the identification marks stamped onto the bases of pottery.

- I found it.

I can't believe I found it, but I never throw anything away.

This is what Ralph did to sell our first book.

The book went 42 printings.

It went out of print and it's now online.

And we did it by hand drawing every picture.

It was unheard of.

- [David] Terry Kovel suspects that it was a case of really good timing.

They got their start at the same time that the American collecting hobby began.

(old boat horn honking) (crowd cheering) - The soldiers all came back from Germany, and they'd seen castles and houses with rooms full of plates hanging on the wall.

And they all brought home humble figures for mama.

- For me?

- And then they wanted another humble figure, and then here we were, the book in the fifties.

You had to inherit your antiques.

If it wasn't your grandfather's sideboard, what were you doing with it?

My father felt that way.

He could not understand why anyone would buy an old piece of furniture.

He began to after we started making money, but.

(Terry chuckles) - [David] But this was still an after hours occupation for the young couple.

Ralph was a salesman who spent a lot of time on the road.

As the books continued to sell, the Kovels found that they were building a reputation.

- We were experts.

It said so in the reviews.

Of course, who else would write a book, right?

So my husband said we should write a newspaper column.

Now mind you, I had two kids.

The youngest one was born the day the book arrived at the house.

- [David] Ralph used his salesmanship skills to convince legendary Cleveland Press editor, Louis Seltzer, to try out a column for six weeks in 1954.

And the bulk of the research fell on Terry, while raising two kids at home.

- I'm going out to the library, don't ask me how.

I don't know how we got that book done.

I had to keep everything up in the air because my son was just old enough to tear it apart if he saw it on the floor.

You know, he was three.

What did he know?

- [David] The Kovel's antiques and collecting columns stayed with the Cleveland Press until the paper shut down operations in 1982, and has since been syndicated to hundreds of newspapers across the country.

And that led to a nationally distributed television program.

Terry Kovel has a staff of researchers and assistants who work out of her house.

The walls of three converted garages are lined with 18,000 reference books, which she's used to produce a hundred publications.

Half of them, price guides that collectors consult to learn the value of everything from Beanie Babies, to handbags, to athletic sneakers.

- I actually first heard about sneaker heads from the guy who came here to read my gas meter.

(upbeat hip hop music) I'm sure that the people who are buying shoes that belong to some great basketball player, it's the whole idea of the games they went to, and the things they saw, and the cul- It's the culture.

- [David] When Ralph and Terry Kovel started, no one else was publishing guides to American collectibles.

Today, she says there are several competitors that put out similar books.

And she thinks that the online nature of sites like eBay, has degraded the experience of going to a collectible show and examining these objects in your own hands.

- It's, it's a way of life.

And if you're not a collector like, well, like my son, you don't understand it at all.

- [David] But her fans certainly get it.

And the thousands of people who read her columns, price guides, and website, and have seen her on TV, would no doubt appreciate the replica of a general store that she and her husband built in the basement.

The shelves are stacked with hundreds of boxes and cans, washboards, and a variety of Ohio advertising.

Kovel acknowledges that some people think she's crazy.

- Come on, Mister.

Go.

- [David] But she doesn't pay any attention.

(soft upbeat music) And so the obsession continues in this Shaker Heights home, brimming with milk cartons, and signs, and games, and Egyptian revival furniture, and paintings, and plates, a mustache cup, and other pieces of America's past.

(soft upbeat music decrescendo) - [Kabir] On the next round of Applause, go inside MetroHealth's new main campus hospital, where it's impressive art collection aims to heal.

Plus, an artist who grew up in Strongsville, reacts to the political and social climate of today with his abstract art.

And the flavorful fermentation behind one man's homemade hot sauce he created after a health scare.

All that and more on the next round of Applause.

(upbeat music) It was a wonderful and vibrant Saturday in Wade Oval last weekend, as the Cleveland Museum of Art's, Parade the Circle, returned after a three year pandemic pause.

Much has changed since the last parade.

And with that in mind, this year's theme was, "Transformation," symbolized by the Libélula, the Dragonfly.

(upbeat music) (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) - Hello, my name is Hèctor Castellanos Lara.

I am the lead artist for Parade the Circle in 2023.

(tribal drum music) The theme is about transformation.

Of course, the Post-COVID era, we really need something that will energize us, to revive us.

(tribal drum music) I read about the dragonfly, and in Spanish is, Libélula.

When I find out it has so many meanings in other countries.

And everything is about being positive, change, hope, new beginning, rebirth, making the most every moment in your life.

♪ Go marchin' in ♪ (street parade band jazz music) ♪ Oh, when the saints go marchin' in ♪ (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) Wonderful.

I would like to have more words to say it.

You know, but, fantastic, wonderful, extraordinary.

More than I was expecting, and the creativity, you know.

(tribal drum music) Probably less groups than other years.

This is just the beginning, it's a new year.

And we already heard about other groups, that, how they want to know about how to participate next year.

2024 will be very interesting.

(tribal drum music) Support these type of events, you know.

They're very very important to keep us unified and celebrate life with art.

(tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) (tribal drum music) - [Kabir] You just heard from this year's lead artist for Parade the Circle, Hèctor Castellanos Lara.

Let's meet this longtime Cleveland artist who lifts up Latino culture in northeast Ohio through his art.

(upbeat Latin music) (upbeat Latin music) - [David] Since 1990, Hèctor Castellanos Lara, has made a tremendous impact on the arts community of northeast Ohio.

From his work on Parade the Circle, and Chalk Festival in Cleveland's University Circle, to his beloved Día de Muertos celebrations in the Gordon Square Arts District, Castellanos Lara loves to share his Latino heritage.

(upbeat Latin music) Born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, in 1954, Héctor Castellanos Lara is the son of a Bohemian artist and a young entrepreneur.

(soft Latin music) - My mom was a designer for a newborn's clothing.

Her name was Marta Reina Lara.

(soft Latin music) I remember my mom coming with materials, you know, in the evenings, and cutting and measuring everything.

'Cause it was a lot of sewing too, with embroidering the beautiful designs.

It's in my genes for sure.

I cannot deny.

- [David] His artist father, Gustavo Castellanos, was a free spirit who died young.

At his mother's bidding, Héctor entered the School of Medicine at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala.

But this was the 1970s, and his country's political situation was dangerous.

- 1974, I was in my first year in the School of Medicine.

Those days, they were unstable situation with the students, and the government also, because there were some political issues that were so critical, and many of my friends were disappearing.

- [David] Castellanos Lara's mother and younger brother had already escaped to New York City.

- Because the situations was so unstable, my mom decide to bring me here to the United States.

She decide to get my papers done.

She was already a resident here in those days.

So, I came to the United States, New York, in 1977, when I was 22.

So that's where I lived for the first 12 years.

- [David] Castellanos Lara's medical studies did not transfer to the US.

So he followed in his mother's footsteps in clothing design, working for an American footwear business in the 1980s.

- By the third year they knew that I know how to design, to draw and take photographs.

So they hired me to another department to do just that.

So that opened the door for another level into the artistic field.

- [David] By then he had married and his wife Liz had family in northeast Ohio.

- And they tell us that it would be nice if we can move to Cleveland because you know, it's a more quiet city.

Very affordable housing.

If you're raising children, you know, you have better opportunity.

We decide to come in 1990.

- [David] It was in Cleveland where his artistic life began in earnest.

(upbeat marimba music) One of his earlier exhibits hearken back to his beloved Guatemala.

- People are always asking me, why I done, making scenes from Guatemala.

And Guatemala is one of the most important art that is very easy to recognize because the Mayan population they dress with these beautiful dresses representing different local areas where they live.

All of the ideas that I have in my paintings come from my mind, you know, from my head.

I usually don't go and take photographs or see the scene and enjoy it or sketch it, no.

I just sit in front of the paper or canvas and I start putting together what I remember.

You know, in this case, people from the market, people with sombreros, or people taking a good rest on the sidewalk.

Those scenes are part of the daily life in Guatemala.

- [David] In the late 90s, a chance meeting with the Cleveland Museum of Art's, Robin VanLear, led Castellanos Lara to the pageant of a lifetime.

CMA's, Parade the Circle.

(soft upbeat music) (soft upbeat music) - I have been part of the family, working for almost 22 years, with Parade the Circle.

Preparing floats, making giant puppets also.

Training school kids, to teenagers, to adults.

And the Cleveland Public Library also.

I did it for many years.

So much fun, so much creativity every year.

(soft upbeat music) (soft upbeat music) Robin VanLear has this great event, like Parade the Circle, she has the Chalk Festival.

So that was another invitation directly to me and I say, "Yeah, I'll try this new media."

Since then, I haven't stopped.

(Hèctor chuckles) (fun upbeat music) - [David] A fellow Latino artist, Salvador González, invited Castellanos Lara to help him create a new festival for northeast Ohio in 2005.

Día de Muertos at the St. Josaphat Arts Hall on East 33rd Street.

(fun upbeat music) González retired two years later, leaving the festival in Castellanos Lara's hands.

- 2008, we started here in the west side.

Cleveland Public Theatre.

Raymond Bobgan, was so excited about it.

Matt Zone the Councilman from Detroit Shoreway, also.

And we start doing face painting.

In the beginning we thought it was gonna be mostly children, you know, and teenagers.

But no, there were adults coming, and some grandpas.

(fun upbeat music) People from all colors.

(fun upbeat music) They're honoring our loved ones, it goes to everybody, you know, it's not just one country, you know?

And even they have different customs or ways to celebrate.

And in one way or another we sympathize.

We remember them, that, well at least once a year.

It's something very good.

You know, it's something that will be very positive for the new generations.

'Cause we can tell our kids about who was grandpa, or who was the uncle who passed away 20 years ago, you know.

So that stay in their memories and they will continue and pass it on to another generation.

That's why it's so important to keep this festival alive.

(soft upbeat Latin music) - [David] Arts education is a big part of his career as he works with area schools on projects, like, traditional sawdust carpets for the Holy Week of Easter.

His most recent activity is at the Art House in Cleveland's Brooklyn Centre neighborhood.

Working with young immigrants currently living in Akron and Canton.

Castellanos Lara christened it, "The Gateway Project."

- The idea was to welcome the refugees, welcome everybody, immigrants, to go through this installation, and we gonna have some wind chimes made out of bamboo materials.

(soft upbeat music) Like you can see, there is no walls.

So you can come to different directions inside.

And that was the main idea, you know.

We don't need walls, you know.

So, we just need like a, a fun part of this installation.

They can see new elements, they can feel people, like happy, and welcome and gathering at the same time.

- [David] During his three decades living in northeast Ohio, Castellanos Lara has witnessed incredible growth in the Latino arts community.

- One of the main things for me to tell them all the time is, like, don't stay with one discipline in the art, you know.

If you're a painter, that's great, you know, but explore other, other disciplines, because that opens the doors in other directions.

I jumped into making masks, or giant puppets afloat, or I go and make sawdust carpets, or I do chalk art.

(soft upbeat Latin music) I really motivate them to explore more, because that give you more chances, more opportunities in life.

Especially in the arts.

(soft Latin music) (soft Latin music) - [Kabir] Thanks for tuning in to this special summer edition of Applause.

I'm Ideastream Public Media's Kabir Bhatia.

But wait, we're not done yet.

Here's another summer spotlight to jazz things up a bit.

The 2023 Tri-C JazzFest is ready to take charge of Cleveland's Playhouse Square with some of northeast Ohio's best musicians and a bevy of big name stars.

To get you in the mood, here's an outdoor performance from 2018, featuring Cleveland legends, Ernie Krivda on saxophone, and vocalist Evelyn Wright.

Enjoy.

♪ Day in, day out ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ That same old hoodoo follows me about ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ That same old pounding in my heart ♪ ♪ Whenever I think of you ♪ ♪ And darling, I think of you ♪ ♪ Day in and day out ♪ ♪ Day out, day in ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ I needn't tell you how my days begin ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ When I awake, I awaken with a tingle ♪ ♪ One possibility in view ♪ ♪ That possibility of maybe seeing you ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ Come rain, come shine ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ I see you and to me the day is fine ♪ ♪ Then I kiss your lips, and the pounding becomes ♪ ♪ The ocean's roar, a thousand drums ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ Can't you see that it's love, can there be any doubt ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ When there it is ♪ ♪ Day in, day out ♪ (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (lively jazz music) (Evelyn laughs) (lively jazz music) - I love it.

(lively jazz music) Ernie Krivda.

(lively jazz music) ♪ Day in, day out ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ That same old hoodoo follows me about ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ That same old pounding in my heart ♪ ♪ Whenever I think of you ♪ ♪ And darling, I think of you ♪ ♪ Day in and day out ♪ ♪ Day out, day in ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ I needn't tell you how my days begin ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ When I awake, I awaken with a tingle ♪ ♪ One possibility in view ♪ ♪ That possibility of maybe seeing you ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ Come rain, come shine ♪ (lively jazz music) ♪ I see you and to me the day is fine ♪ (soft theme music) (soft theme music) - [Announcer] Production of Applause on Ideastream Public Media is made possible by the John P. Murphy Foundation, The Kulas Foundation, and by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.