Take an audio tour of a 2022-23 exhibition at The Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum! Listen to artist Lee Boot chat about his show "Lee Boot: Abstracts & Artifacts," on view at The Peale from November 2022-January 2023. You can see videos and interact with more media files using Smartify, the ultimate cultural travel app! Includes 21 narrated stops.

Lee Boot (00:00): So now you're looking at the red velvet curtains that are tied back to reveal a big white piece of paper with drawings and sticky notes and stuff like that all over it. That's part of a study that is being launched as part of this exhibition. And if you look at the wall text to the left of this red velvet curtain display, you'll see a little bit more about that. And then, and then below that on a pedestal, there's actually a written description of this study. So here's what I'm doing. I'm asking people who would identify as professional artists, people with what they would consider a mature working method to come and do a filmed a video recorded interview with me about their artistic process, something that I'm calling "artistic method." So yes, that's kind of like the scientific method only We're saying artistic method.

(01:07): We're not saying the artistic method because we think there's more variety than that, but we're talking about artistic method because we believe, I believe, but also my colleagues at the Imaging Research Center believe that there is a commonality to the kind of thought process that artists use to invent and to produce their work. There are certain touchstones that are really amazingly similar actually across creatives in general, including mathematicians, but definitely the arts. And I just wanna say this about the arts versus other disciplines. You know, all artists have very often is their process their intuition, as I've talked about, very important part of that process. But, you know, we, we put our work out there. Again, there's no rule book telling us what to do. It's just our vision and our ego and our sense of expression and putting it out there for the world to see.

(02:12): And it's, it's really interesting how similar in a way different artists processes are as I've spoken to them. And so we're putting together a study where we interview 20 artists who identify that way. And their interviews will be really nicely filmed in this room right here at the Peel. They will be made available to the public. They'll be edited first. They're not quite as long and made available to the public as part of the special collections of UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Gallery. And the artists who agree to participate in this we don't have money to pay them. This is just a preliminary study to see if it's a promising hypothesis.

(02:58): This idea that artists have a similarity among their processes. The artists who agree to do this will have their will, will be given their interview, given their footage to use on their website to use part to use as part of promotional materials. It should be just a really nice film of them answering some questions and describing what goes on in their head, what they do to get in the zone and to, and to make their ideas emerge and their process emerge. You know, good idea, a good opportunity to describe what we as artists do. So if you are an artist who fits that description, you would call yourself a professional artist with a mature working method, please contact me at the email address that is written on the piece of paper under the wall text to your left.

[Visit http://www.nasgreathall.com/#contact for additional information about how to participate.]