- In this edition of Artistic Horizons, adapting - A film for the Broadway stage.

- The line between investigating and persecuting is - A to co-write a play with George and for us to get it on on Broadway.

This is like, this is literally a dream come true.

Accuracy.

What - Truth?

An artist inspired by the world around him.

- A lot of times I'm just painting.

I'm not really giving any thought to what I'm doing.

I just start throwing things around and see what happens.

I try not to overthink when I'm creating a, a piece, - A local business that is building community.

- Harbor Gardens is a general store, it's a demonstration kitchen and it's a meeting space, and everything is revolved around local food and local products.

The growth of a creative, - The most rewarding thing is that every day is so different For me, I think the most exciting part is when I'm learning something new, but like, wow, I did that.

That's always the fun part.

- It's all ahead on this edition of Artistic Horizons.

Hello, I'm Mark Ro, and this is Artistic Horizons.

George Clooney is one of the biggest names in Hollywood, and in 2025, he made his Broadway debut in the stage adaptation of the critically acclaimed film.

Goodnight and good luck.

We to New York City to find out more.

- There are a certain kind of people wired a certain kind of way.

This was literally about something that unfortunately is a constant, - Which is that it has to be raged.

This idea of truth doesn't just pop out.

We get to do a play about a subject matter that's very close to our hearts, which is about everything that you guys all do, which is holding truth to power.

- You know, there's a story behind the story.

If you're bold enough to search for it, if you're passionate enough to speak out, if you're brave enough to stand up to the forces determined to keep you silent, no matter the consequences.

I'd already done this as a film, so I didn't really have anywhere else to do it.

No, listen, I'm terrified.

When we did a play reunion, I read Murrow just because I was the only actor that could do it at the time, and they said, yeah, you, you should play the part.

And I was like, no, no, no.

I hadn't done a play in 40 years, 40 years, - Stories that I heard from my grandparents about, you know, Edward r Murrow and that period of McCarthy and I, I, I always think that it's fun to go back and re-explore these old stories and see how they resonate today.

To write a play, to co-write a play with George, and for us to get it on on Broadway.

This is like, this is literally a dream come true.

My father thanks it for 40 years and I'm very - Proud of the, the person that my father has been his old delight man.

He taught me all the things that I believe in.

I'm proud to represent his craft.

Unfortunately, this is a story that has been relevant for a hundred years and continues to be relevant.

And so I think it's a good time to always remind ourselves of us at our best.

And he was pretty much us at our best.

- The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly.

- I thought it was a good time to tell this story and now I have to do it, which is scary.

I - Mean, honestly, it's really terrifying.

It's fun to be off your game a little bit and to be nervous and things like that.

So it's fun.

There are certain kind of people who are the lifeblood of democracy, never wavering, never faltering, never strain in their pursuit of what matters and what matters alive.

And five, honesty, four facts, three integrity, two accuracy, - One truth.

And now for the artist quote of the week in Tampa Bay, Florida, we meet artist Nolan Anderson, moved by the simplicities and subtleties of the world around him.

He renders work in an organic fashion and captures the beauty of living.

Take a look.

- I started painting probably around four or five years old.

It started with comic books, you know, superheroes.

The human figure was always my first interest when it came to drawing and painting.

After finishing high school, I took up advertising at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.

After graduating from there, most of my work was always as a freelance illustrator.

During those years, I would design juda greeting cards.

They used a lot of gold and a lot of silver film that I began to use in my personal art, and that's how it's been for me as an artist doing so much work for different people.

I sort of like picked a little from this and that, and it has influenced the work that I do now for about 10 years, I worked as a restoration artist in the yacht industry down in South Florida.

We did a lot of faux painting in the interior part of the yachts and sailboats.

I applied the techniques from that in the work that I do now.

You know, it's the certain look of wood I know from doing the restoration work.

I eventually moved to Tampa, Florida and began to focus on my personal art and painting the things that I enjoy doing.

Working as a freelance illustrator, it wasn't that often that I got a chance to paint people of color.

As I started doing my own personal work, I wanted to paint images that looked like me, that reflect who I am.

I wanted to show that, you know, we are everywhere and with a lot of pieces that I paint, I, I put them in different settings and I try to do things in a way that you couldn't quite pick up what era it is.

And I sort of give a story to this in my head.

There's one called the Pimp of Charlemagne Duber, but it's really, it is two old men playing chess and the old miny little dog beside the main character's wearing this purple fedora.

And I used to turn the pimp of Charlemagne, not pimp as in someone who's taken advantage of women or anything like that, but someone who's like taking advantage of life.

They're pimping life, so to speak.

That character I painted several times in, in, in different paintings.

I, I think the subtle things are more true, genuine.

I would use nature, I would involve flowers or birds or butterflies that's moving around because I want that to be a part of that subtle moment that's just caught.

A lot of times I'm just painting.

I'm not really giving any thought to what I'm doing, I just start throwing things around and see what happens.

I try not to overthink when I'm creating a a a piece.

I guess it's like musicians when they, when they playing music, they have a jam session.

You just playing and, and I think that's some of the best stuff that comes out when you, you're not overthinking, you're not trying to think about it, you're just jamming away.

- I had the opportunity to connect with Nolan Anderson while I was the operations leader for the Renaissance International Plaza Hotel.

We were partnering and working with another local artist by the maiden name of Melina Priestly.

She said, you know what, I have the perfect brother that you gotta meet.

Not only is he the foundation of what Tampa is as an artist, his artist second to none.

I said, I gotta meet this guy Nolan and see what Nolan's all about.

So we set up a meeting.

Nolan came in and, and honestly he had us at hello.

- I was invited to hang some work at the Renaissance Hotel to leave transitioned over here as the general manager of the AC hotel and we wanted to do something a little different with the artwork.

- Antonio Katlan was the founder of the AC brand in Spain.

Our objective was really to, you know, pay homage to Antonio Catalan and everything that he built - At the same time.

While yet telling that story, also show a little bit about my background as an artist who liked to paint black art.

After doing a little research, I found a woman by the name of Yinka Isai Grs from out of Spain who does flamenco dancing.

- She was the blender of, you know, this flamenco dance, infusing the African dance.

So we said, all right, we're in.

It's beautiful.

They wear these wonderful dresses.

They have so much that you can do in that piece, and then the texture that would come out of that would be, would be outstanding.

The only ask was that it takes up a whole wall.

- If you look closely at the, the artwork there, there's that mixed medium.

There's the, the concrete and there's some sculpture going on.

There's the gold leafing in there.

The gold leafing was the influence from years of doing the Judaic artwork.

I knew a rough idea of what I wanted to look like and as it began to take shape, then I needed a direction to go.

In.

- Every first Saturday of every month, we host an event called Elegant Saturdays.

- That event for me is an artist.

I'm there to do live paintings, to connect with the community, to let them see the process.

- They're getting a chance to meet the actual artist that is our resident artist in the space.

He's given an opportunity as well.

So when we do curate our next art show, now the people that have been coming every month to elegant Saturday, now they feel part of what Nolan's doing, right?

So now they're gonna show up and they're gonna support Nolan as well.

- A lot of times when I'm creating in the studio, not so much that I'm creating for someone else, I'm creating for me, but I don't get that feedback until after the piece is done.

But when I'm doing live painting, you know, I get the interaction with people.

I get to hear what people are thinking about.

- When you meet an artist like Nolan, he gives off this aura of patience, of sophistication, of luxury.

Where I see the future for, for Nolan, I see him across the United States in multiple different brands and really showcasing his work, but not just showcasing his work, giving the hotel an opportunity to display something worth displaying and inviting the community into their hotel to make it vibrant.

- What I would say to other artists, just keep painting.

Even if you don't feel like it paint, even if you don't know what you want to do, just paint.

You know, don't try to overthink anything, just keep doing it.

Try to do something every day and don't worry about what the final piece is going to look like.

Just go with it.

Don't overthink anything.

- Now here's a look at this month's fun fact.

Harbor Gardens is a food market and demonstration kitchen that is building community in Asah, Ohio.

In this segment, we learn more about the art of food and the importance of growing it locally.

- I started looking at the data of Raah County.

So Raah County really has sadly some of the worst health outcomes, which, you know, when you look around and you think about all of this water, you think of all of this land and we have this fresh air.

So it's hard to believe that we can have such poor health outcomes when we have such abundance of natural resources.

Harper Gardens is a general store, it's a demonstration kitchen and it's a meeting space and everything is revolved around local food and local products.

Working with the shop, Sarah's the grower.

And from a healthcare perspective, I just want people to eat local food so that we can improve health outcomes here in Asah County.

- The systems that we have in place now don't do as good of a job, I think as, as we can with taking care of people, taking care of our ecosystems.

And I think we can do all of those things and we don't have to sacrifice, you know, ecological quality.

I think we can actually make things more beautiful, more productive, more abundant, and people healthier.

All those things can happen simultaneously.

It doesn't have to be one or the other.

- Sarah's part of the of the shop is growing so much gorgeous food.

So we have a little food forest about four blocks from here and we grow a lot of food.

We teach people how to grow food and we are also working on the food forest concept as a way to get food to people.

- So when most people think about their garden, you know, they till it every year and they plant new crops.

But with the food forest, you're taking advantage of something called ecological succession where essentially a plant community over time it builds and builds until it has this multi-layered structure with trees and shrubs and perennial plants and some annual plants and things like that.

So it looks a lot like a forest, but you've selected each one of those plants to have a certain role in a certain function and to produce food or medicine or fiber or something that's useful for people.

It's doing all of the things, the wonderful things that an ecosystem does to make the earth healthier.

But it's also providing for humans - Along with the classes we teach about cooking, canning, fermenting, because it's not just growing your own food.

Not everybody has to grow their own food.

You can get your food from your local farmer's market or we have a resource here called the ULA Local Food Guide.

It's got over a hundred farms who are producing food for local consumption.

So you get that food but then you need to preserve it.

So we teach so many classes.

I have requests every day for learning how to water bath can.

So you can do your own tomato sauce, you can make your own jams, jellies with water, bath, canning.

We also do a pressure canning class and then we also have fermentation classes.

So fermenting was is one of the oldest ways to prepare food.

We try to have all of the resources where people can be quite self-sufficient once they learn how to do it - For making the sauerkraut.

Everybody get a cutting board.

There's three or four back there and I brought a couple just in case I learned to can from my grandmother.

So I've been canning for the last 50 years or more.

And we, what we wanna do is slice it as thin as you can.

You take whatever vegetable we did, sauerkraut, which is cabbage and salt.

You put it under pressure so the liquid will come up.

Once the liquid comes up, you then put a weight on it.

If the liquid doesn't cover the full thing, you'll end up getting spoilage.

So you have to make sure your liquid comes above whatever your weight is and then you put a cover over it and let it ferment.

The most fermented foods, if it's you ferment, it will have probiotics in it and scrape for your stomach.

If you take fermented foods every single day that you know has not been killed by a processing, it'll help your stomach calm down, you'll do much better.

- Most medications that people are on, blood pressure medications, diabetes, most of the regular meds that people are on do not fix problems.

Their symptom relievers.

Food is a problem solver.

- That's powerful.

And I noticed Gallo had some classes.

I would just came in here this afternoon.

I was curious, found out she had a class on fermenting tonight.

So I brought some friends with me and we'd have a wonderful evening.

I didn't realize it was this easy.

I could easily do this and it's, and I, I trust it more than going to the store, buy something in a plastic bag.

- We're trying through local food to show people that it can be done regeneratively and that the way of the future as humans is to keep things local and take care of our local ecosystems and the people in them.

The way that's gonna happen is by supporting people who are doing that, who are your neighbors, and kind of reestablishing these human communities as well as the communities in the natural world.

- Astro Bula County.

And all of the food that is grown here deserves to be celebrated.

And so really this is about having some fun with food and that keeps me going every day, - Almost giving extra.

And now here's a look at a few notable dates in art history for Alexis Revera Luna.

Bob Ross is a big source of inspiration.

Having watched his show and painted alongside him, she developed the confidence to pursue art and now she is a working artist.

Here's her story.

- I've always had a love of nature and I think I put a lot of that passion into my arts.

I went to University of Wisconsin Madison for zoology, conservation, biology, and environmental studies.

So really love the animals.

And I became a wildlife rehabilitator.

So I did that for five years at the Wisconsin Humane Society.

I started painting during the pandemic watching the Bob Ross show.

And I found out later that Bob Ross is actually a wildlife rebuilder too.

So he also took care of sick, injured and orphaned animals.

One day I was watching Bob Ross and I thought maybe I could do this.

And I just started painting along with him.

It gave me a lot of confidence and courage that I could do anything I set my mind to.

The ideas come from nature a lot of the time, so I, I spend a lot of time outside.

So whenever I'm out in nature, if I see like a beautiful sunset, I'll take a picture of it and then I'll try to incorporate those colors into my painting.

I am constantly looking up at the sky, so sometimes I'll be like surrounded by trees and take a picture and the perspective kind of gives me an idea of how I wanna do the tree line, but it also gives me an appreciation of nature when I'm trying to capture a scene.

You know, I feel like I'm really being observant out there as well.

I'm trying to be present when I'm in nature, trying to get different ideas and let them come to me.

So it definitely feels like it gave me appreciation and a peacefulness to my life.

I started just doing kind of the landscape stuff, but eventually I wanted to put a little bit more of myself into it.

I don't see myself represented in a lot of fine arts spaces or fine art shows, so I started doing like silhouettes of women.

It felt really empowering for me as a woman and I really liked the idea of diversifying it, having different types of people so people can really see themselves in my work.

At first it was more so just I wanted to see myself, I wanted to see women and I felt empowered by the art that I was doing, but I really wanted to have other people see themselves in my work.

I've meet so many people and they're always saying, you know, I can never do what you do.

I'm not an artist.

And I always tell them like, everyone's an artist in their own way just because you don't feel like you can paint, which Bob Ross always says everyone can paint.

But I do believe that everyone is an artist in their own way.

Whether it's, you know, us playing a sport or cooking or watercolor, there's ways of expression everywhere.

And as long as you keep it up and it makes you happy and you're passionate about it, you can be an artist.

We all have greatness inside of us and we're as tall, as big as mountains and we're so full of color in life.

The abstract part of it, like you, there are mountains with you within you almost like, I guess everyone sees things differently when they look at their art or my art, but for what?

For me, when I see it, it's like there are mountains within me and I think that's really cool.

So I feel like I'm the most excited about my work when I'm trying something new.

I saw wood-burning online once, so I just bought a new tool and started to try it out.

I just thought it would be really cool and a different thing to try.

I'm always looking for new fun art projects.

But yeah, it was a bit of a process and a learning curve for me.

This is obviously a very different medium and at first I was like burning way too much and it looked horrible.

So I think like less pressure and just a lot of patience is needed for this one.

And it's cool with this tool, I feel like I could use it different ways to make different textures and different styles of trees.

I tend to use this one the most 'cause it's got a fine point to it.

So it's really good for detail.

There's thicker ones that are flat, which is really good for shading.

I'll use that on the mountains to kind of cover a lot of space.

So this one is really good for shading.

It's 'cause it's flat and it covers a big area, so I'll use that for the mountain scenes here.

All the shading is nice, covers more area.

I don't have to do all these tiny, tiny lines.

And then this is a textured one where it's just got the lines on there and I started doing the trees with it.

But I think it just, it's too uniform and I don't like how it looked.

So I ended up using it for like the water here just to kind of give it some movement.

The most rewarding thing is that every day is so different for me.

I think the most exciting part is when I'm learning something new, but like, wow, I did that.

That's always the fun part with doing art.

It really doesn't feel like work to me.

A lot of people say, you know, don't you get tired of it?

Does it take the joy out of painting?

But it doesn't feel like work.

I love going to art shows.

I think it's a great space to show off my art and meet new people who like my art and make me feel like I'm doing the right thing.

I'm in the right spot.

So I get to see a lot of the familiar faces come to a lot of the same art shows and they get excited when they see me and they're like, oh, you've got new stuff and look at what you're doing now.

And, but all the other artists, I feel like we learn from each other, we boost each other up.

It's a really good space for artists and a way to express ourselves and show people what we can do.

Fabulous.

- And that wraps it up for this edition of Artistic Horizons.

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Until next time, I'm Mark Ro.

Thanks for watching.