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Artist Mauricio Ramirez talks about honoring a Milwaukee legend
Season 13 Episode 22 | 2m 41sVideo has Closed Captions
Visual artist, Mauricio Ramirez talks about painting a tribute to Bob Uecker.
More public art is coming to Downtown Milwaukee. We stopped by to talk with artist Mauricio Ramirez as he creates a mural honoring Bob Uecker.
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The Arts Page is a local public television program presented by MILWAUKEE PBS
The Arts Page
Artist Mauricio Ramirez talks about honoring a Milwaukee legend
Season 13 Episode 22 | 2m 41sVideo has Closed Captions
More public art is coming to Downtown Milwaukee. We stopped by to talk with artist Mauricio Ramirez as he creates a mural honoring Bob Uecker.
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And I mean I was really airing it out.
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(reporter laughs) (birds chirping) - [Mauricio] My name's Mauricio Ramirez.
I'm a visual artist specializing in public art.
(upbeat music) (lift beeps) It's the biggest honor.
I was approached by the Wintrust Financial Group.
They kind of teamed up with Downtown Milwaukee as well as Visit Milwaukee and Bob Uecker really kind of touched a lot of people's lives just through his format of broadcasting.
- [Reporter] How did the broadcasting thing start for you?
- [Bob] Well, I was asked to quit as a player and (reporter laughs) I always made fun of myself and my career.
The message that I always left with, whether it was a nightclub or a banquet, wherever it was, if that guy played baseball, our kids got a chance, you know?
(reporter laughs) And that to me is all I wanted to convey.
- To be honest, I think it's probably gonna be the highlight of my career.
(lift beeps) And there's a lot of important people that have trusted me with it and I think really just trusting my gut with all the different color changes and the way that spray paint operates.
How it just kind of sprays and kind of mists, I think that I use that to my benefit to just get some of the blending down.
(spray can hisses) I want them to remember their stories that they had with him 'cause everybody has their own interaction with him.
So I just hope when they see it, Brewers fans, the Uecker family, they get this sense of connection with him.
- [Reporter] What would you like people to remember about you?
- As a guy that had a good time and enjoyed people.
I enjoy people, you know?
I really do.
I love this area, I love Wisconsin, I love Milwaukee and someday, I'm gonna take a dive and maybe it'll be in the broadcast booth and they roll me down the screen here and onto a wagon and out the warning track out the right field gate and (whistle) see you later.
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