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In this edition of "The Art Show," an art collection in a surprising place, (bright music) capturing sound to stimulate the senses, (bright music) celebrating the art of Japanese animation, (bright music) and a flower shop on wheels.

It's all ahead on this edition of "The Art Show."

(bright music) (music continues) Hi, I'm Rodney Veal, and welcome to "The Art Show," where each week, we provide access to local, regional, and national artists and arts organizations.

In 2022, Five Rivers Health Center opened a brand new facility in the Edgemont neighborhood on the west side of Dayton.

The size and scope of the main campus means Five Rivers can provide access to quality, comprehensive, and respectful care to their patients, while also offering a surprise.

Inside, its walls showcase a who's who of Dayton area artists.

This very special art collection lifts spirits and brings beauty to all who come through its doors.

Here's their story.

(bright music) Five Rivers Health Centers is a nonprofit community health center, and we are here to serve patients with primary care, and we turn no one away.

We see patients regardless of their ability to pay.

This site is the largest federally qualified health center site in Ohio.

When we initially started, we served 12,000 patients, 45,000 visits.

We're now up to 27,000 patients, over 90,000 visits a year, so it's all about access.

When we decided several years ago to consolidate some of our smaller clinics, we looked around the community, and tried to find a place that made sense for us and was close to our patients, and the Edgemont property that used to be Whittier School many, many years ago was ideal, and we decided to build this facility.

It is 84,000 square feet.

It is very large, but we provide so many services and resources here that our patients can really come here and know that they're coming to a one-stop shop.

When we first started working with our architect, consultants proposed to us, why don't you purchase 20 pieces of framed art this size, and you know, 20 stock photographs this size?

And that's how you will decorate your space.

We started talking to Terry Welker, who is the amazing sculpture artist that did the piece in our main lobby, and he said, "You know, there's a very wonderful group of local artists here in the Dayton area, and you ought to talk to them."

That was a starting point, and we started realizing, let's do it local.

Let's make sure to support the local artists, and let's make sure that we are bringing the community into the space and into the building, and that's what we did.

Five Rivers has the best art collection in town.

The commitment they made to the local arts is phenomenal.

Kim and Gina came to visit my studio, and we talked about what they were looking for, and they looked through my art, and I had some pieces that were perfect for the pediatric center.

I had a few pieces that were great for the women's center, and then at that point they asked, "Well, we don't know how to put this all together.

Could you help us?"

And I said, "Sure, I'd love to."

After I saw Five Rivers Health Center and I saw they still had some blank walls, they have 88 exam rooms, I felt they needed art, and I just started to think, you know, pediatrics, it would be really great to get some kid's art.

And so I went into Dayton Leadership Academy and Louise Troy Elementary, which is right down the street, and these kids see the health center, and so it was really special working with the local kids.

It's very abstract, but what they really worked with was color and movement.

We really talked about emotions and feelings, and I would ask them, "If you're going to the dentist, what kind of color do you wanna see on the walls?"

"Oh, we want something calm.

We would like some blues and some teals."

And these kids learned how to mix all those colors on their own.

They learned about tints, tones, shades, and by the end of the project, if I would ask, "Oh, could you just stir me up a teal?"

They could do it.

They really understood it.

[Kim] Currently, the collection is about 150 pieces total, and we have supported 70 local artists, and that includes not just individuals, but also student groups from the two schools that Amy Deal worked with, and We Care Arts, so there's a wide array of works and looks.

The collection is very diverse.

We wanted to make sure that since we're in the heart of an African-American community, that we involve the African-American visual artist skill to be a part of it, and then we had fun shopping at Front Street Galleries with all of those wonderful artists.

In addition to supporting artists that are known in the community, we also have art from individuals who have never sold their works before.

They may never have been included in any kind of public or community space, or exhibited their works, and that was really exciting to talk to our staff and have someone say, "Well, my dad's a painter.

He's retired from GM, but he paints in his garage, and he has this amazing artwork."

And we would go take a look, and then we would purchase a couple of pieces.

So that's been awesome to share works with the community from artists that are not well known yet, but hopefully, they will be.

Many of our patients don't get the chance to see art every day, and so to have it as a part of their healthcare, I feel this is part of our healing touch that we're doing from a visual perspective.

And because we put a little bit of information about each artist through the QR codes that we have, they can get to learn a little bit more about the artists as well.

My favorite piece is called "Yes, We Can" by Andrea Cummings, and it displays a Black ballerina doing ballet pointed toe.

And so when I was growing up, my instructor told the class that African Americans don't do pointe, and it was a little offensive when I went home to tell my mother, and she's like, "You are going to do toe."

Now there's so many African-American ballet dancers who do en pointe, but I was the only one in my dance troop who did ballet en pointe.

I find myself having a different favorite every week.

I tend to really find myself enjoying the second floor, the Dayton gallery wall, because it's got a lot of different photographs, paintings, prints of places and spaces around Dayton, so there are some shots from Carillon Park and the VA Cemetery, and so that wall of multiple pieces is one of my favorites.

We are open to the public, and so even if you're not a patient of Five Rivers, we would love to have you come in and experience the local art that we have in the building.

They could probably see almost about 50% of the art.

The other 50% are behind locked doors.

It's in an exam room, it's in a conference room.

You need a badge to get through, but it would be our pleasure.

Stop by, we'd love to show it off.

(bright music) This building is a show place if you haven't had a chance to see it yet, and the fact that it's right here within the West Dayton neighborhood of Edgemont is just a cherry on top.

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Daric Gill describes himself as an idea and process guy.

In his art practice, he often pushes himself beyond what he knows, even teaching himself calculus for one project.

Daric says experiences feed his creative side.

Let's learn how his library of inspiration grew into his newest installation.

(tool whirring) I'm a interdisciplinary artist, and what that really means is I think I often say it's like being a triathlete in the arts.

So just like a triathlete who is a runner and a swimmer, and say, a cyclist, I happen to be a sculptor, a painter, and I use robotics and electronics.

I grew up in a small little village called Anna, Ohio.

I was there until I graduated high school, and growing up in the countryside, there's a lot of nature, there's a lot of family events to go to, and although I've lived in the city now for more years than I lived in the countryside, there's still a lot of that green space, environment, and nature that I seek out for now that I also employ into my work.

One of the things that inspires me in my work is this pursuit to kind of capture new experiences, learn new things, and figure out how to digest that in a way that's meaningful and it has purpose, and this exploration is part of my being.

It's really who I am.

I often say my love affair isn't with the art making process.

It's mostly before I even create the work, finding ways to do that exploration, that adventuring that I was talking about, and come up with new, very important things for me to say, something that's from an internal space that I can then translate to other people, and that idea making process takes sometimes weeks, months, even years, and that's the part that I really can sink my teeth into.

What I'm working on right now is a interactive sound installation, and it's a few stylized, I call 'em tree trunks made out of wood, and they have speakers in them, and there's a little microcontroller that will feed sound samples that I've taken from all over the world to these speakers, and anytime someone walks by it, it will be activated and play these sounds.

Anything that you see here in green, those are called comments, and that's just the notation that I write myself as I'm creating this code.

And this is all open sourced, so part of the learning platform that has been able to teach me so well on how to use this is a community of people that share and trade codes.

But this is basically the code that runs this music player, and it's set to send random signals to this anytime there's motion that activates it.

(speaker playing music) There's plenty of times where I'm out in a really special place, and it just sounds different than my normal day-to-day event, and I found so much pleasure from those moments, that it dawned on me that it would be nice to share those as well.

(water splashing) I started doing recordings of sounds in nature, and I could get about 60 seconds of recording before an airplane or a motorcycle, or some external sound just really flooded.

(water trickling) My sounds when I would go home were just so rampant with external sounds, and I figured out that that's how I'm hearing it also.

While I'm in the woods, it's not as enjoyable if there's, you know, a huge noise that goes by, and I wanted to take something that was sort of a negative stimulus, and figure out how to make a positive piece out of it, 'cause I'm not a very negative person.

I'm generally a really positive guy, so I wanna make work that kind of teaches, and at the core, I really want people to hear a sound that piques their interest and maybe ask the questions, where can I find that sound, where can I go?

And start to get people into those strange places, and it's an invitation to anyone that hears the sounds to be curious, to be explorative, and to go to new places.

I went to Italy as part of the sound recording.

We all have seen like, pictures of what the Sistine Chapel looks like.

Well, what does the Sistine Chapel sound like?

What does a woods in Ohio sound like compared to a woods in Germany?

What does a creek sound like versus a river?

These are all things that I compute on a day-to-day basis.

These are things that I pay attention to.

Right now, I'm listening for a little bit of the water trickling from the stream here, and then I can hear just a little bit of birds in the background, so there's kind of like this layer of crystallized water waves with a little bit of bird sounds.

Part of the experience is just sitting down and kind of enjoying the space too.

I don't want it to feel like work, you know?

So you come and chill for a little bit, get a little bit of that quiet time, plus you have to wait a little bit for the animals to come back.

Once you're kind of trudging through the rocks and the sticks, breaking sticks under your feet, takes a few minutes for all the animals to kind of come back, which I really like that volume that starts off super, super soft, and then over 3, 4, 5 minutes, the birds, the animals, you'll hear little robins going through the grass, and squirrels going up and down the trees.

But I mean, if it's an hour, that's a great afternoon.

I call it scheduled spontaneity.

It's like, each day I'll take a little bit of time away from the studio, especially on nice days like this, and take an hour or two and really enjoy it.

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The recent exhibition "Anime Architecture" presented the art of Japanese animation before the digital era.

Located at the Morikami Museum in Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida, the show featured drawings, paintings, and photographs used to create four remarkable animated films.

Take a look.

(upbeat music) I'm Carla Stansifer.

I'm the curator of Japanese art at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens.

This is "Anime Architecture."

(upbeat music) This exhibit features four films that came out between 1988 and 2004.

These films are all anime, which is the Japanese animation process, and they are all sci-fi, and they all also encapsulate a realistic style, so that's what each of the films have in common.

And you know, anime is a multi-billion dollar business today.

(upbeat music) The original curator of the exhibition, Stefan Riekeles from Berlin, he started this project back in 2008, and he was fortunate enough to go into studios, meet with the animators, and look at some of their work, and he was really interested in the process of anime making.

It's amazing you have hundreds of artists working together to create one film, and he talks about how a lot of the artists were hesitant to put their art in frames and on the wall.

They didn't see it as art.

They saw it as just a small part of this whole production.

(upbeat music) The curator went with the backgrounds, and not just the characters.

For example, in the Japanese anime process, the voiceovers come last.

You know, in a Disney production they come first, but in Japan, it's the opposite.

They have a much greater emphasis on the environment and movement.

"Ghost in the Shell" came out in 1995, and it's based on a very popular manga series.

We really can't underestimate the importance of this film.

The people who created "The Matrix" say flat out that this film inspired them, and the entire film is about artificial intelligence in the future, but how this artificial intelligence interacts with the technology, with the machinery, and really they're talking about what it means to be human.

For this film, we featured some of the hand drawings by Takeuchi Atsushi, and then we have the paintings of Ogura Hiromasa, which actually appear in the film.

So you can see that development process, how they go from the raw images and ideas into the more technical details and drawings, and then the final product, and the feel and the emotion that comes out.

It's almost as if the background and the environment is its own character in the film.

They really wanna emphasize that.

(upbeat music) We do have some photography as well, and location photography was very important.

Remember these artists were going for realism, and the director Oshii Mamoru not only worked on anime, but he also worked on live actions, and he thought, well, why don't we do that for anime?

(upbeat music) And I love to point out this piece right here.

He snapped this picture in a shop, and after he had gone in, his lens sort of clouded over, and then this is what his art team did with it, and I love it because we're not just seeing a copy.

They're not copying what they saw.

They were inspired by this, and you could see they added some signage.

They added a building over here.

I also like to point out in this piece, again it's a watercolor on paper by Ogura Hiromasa, and this one would've been captured on film for the final product.

You see these dark colors here, it has this nice broody tone to it, but when that transfers to film, a lot of that gets washed out.

But Ogura was a master at finding just the right mix to create these darker tones and still keep them vibrant.

This piece here is from the film "Patlabor," which came out in 1989.

If you look very closely at this piece, you'll see a few little bits of tape across the top, and that's because there are actually three layers here.

Why would they do that, why would they go to all that trouble?

Well, in this particular scene, we have a flock of birds that flies through the frame, and so we had to have space in between those buildings, and they were moving at different camera speeds.

That's how complicated it gets just for a flock of birds to fly across a screen.

Around 1997, the anime industry moved to entirely digital productions, from concept design through to the final piece was all digital, and it was this great wave, this great change that took over the studios, especially throughout Tokyo, and today, there are only five studios left who can do hand drawn backgrounds.

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(bright music) Now let's travel West.

We head to Reno, Nevada to meet the team behind Emmy's Flower Truck.

Founded it in 2020, this flower shop on wheels spreads love throughout northern Nevada, one bloom at a time.

(bright music) Flowers can be given anytime.

You don't need a special holiday to give flowers.

You can give flowers to lift you up anytime for yourself, for your friends, for your kids.

Flowers have a very, very strong effect on people.

Very similar to music, it lifts you up, it makes you happy, it changes your mood, and just giving them to someone brings a smile and makes their day.

(bright music) My name's Emily MacPherson, and I'm the owner of Emmy's Flower Truck.

We are based in Reno, Nevada.

Emmy's Flower Truck is a mobile flower truck that travels around town.

We are invited by different businesses to come and park at their business, setting up in specific locations and selling flowers and bouquets.

And this is a mum, and this is a gerbera daisy.

Before Emmy's Flower Truck, I was a flight attendant at Southwest Airlines for 25 years.

(bright music) When the pandemic happened, Southwest gave us the option to opt out, and that meant for the people that were interested in retiring, this was the time to do it, and they were offering a monetary amount for however long you had worked there.

The money I received, I decided to buy this Volkswagen truck.

(upbeat music) It's a 1965 Volkswagen Kombi Transporter.

I found it in New Jersey, and this one was interesting to me because of the ability to fold down the sides and fold the sides back up.

She's absolutely adorable and fun to drive.

We named her Daisy.

She has a vintage looking license plate with the name FLRTRK, and she only goes 40 miles an hour.

We do not go on the freeway, we only go on side streets.

So it's very fun driving her around town.

She gets a lot of attention.

I saw people around, not necessarily in Reno, but other towns that had, you know, different kinds of trucks with flowers.

I've always loved flowers, so it was perfect, and here we are now.

At Emmy's Flower Truck, we work with hundreds of varieties of flowers.

(bright music) Tulips are very big right now, and we're doing lots of roses and lots of greenery, so we do a lot of eucalyptus.

We have, it's called Italian Ruscus, so whatever we choose is the freshest that we can find, and the most current that we can find.

We trim 'em and make sure we have no bacteria anywhere.

Our flowers last a long time, because we do take care of them the way we do.

We do process them in certain way.

Creating arrangement involves working with color palettes and color schemes as well as different textures and flowers.

We want something that's intriguing, has little pops of color or little flowers sticking out every now and then.

I like to call it very whimsical or very boho, and that tends to be our style that we lean towards.

When we are arranging a bouquet for a client, we take into account the different colors that they love, where they're going to use it, how big they want it, and from that, we just do our magic.

(bright music) We have certain ways that we cut our flowers to certain heights.

You can see all of your beautiful focal flowers.

The people that actually build their own, they spend about 15, 20 minutes, and that to them is their piece of art.

So it's an art form that they've kind of given to me to perfect.

I love creating an arrangement or a bouquet.

I find that I can pour my creativity into it, and I love seeing the people's faces when I turn it around, especially out on the truck.

When I started Emmy's Flower Truck, I never envisioned just how much I would learn about flowers, and just how much I would learn from the people that purchase flowers.

Just the love that people bring and the support that people have for the different small businesses and the different business owners, it's quite incredible, it really is.

I never knew Reno like I know Reno now, and I wouldn't be anywhere else.

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(bright music) And that wraps it up for this edition of "The Art Show.

"ú Until next time, I'm Rodney Veal.

Thanks for watching.

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