They Were Forced Out of Their Home - Sidney Finkel

"Luke's father Eugene, they were forced out of their home, around 1942, and they were sent into a concentration camp as a matter of fact Eugene was in several concentration camps, together with his family. His wife and his two daughters and all his parents were murdered in the Holocaust. He was the only one who survived the war."

"Ah, my sister, I know a little bit more about her, she survived ah, the main thing was that in October of 1942 the Germans closed the ghetto, and they sent all the people on trains to a place called Treblinka where they were gassed. She was very industrious and very smart, and she was able to survive this huge round up, like I did and her brother and her father. She worked for a German economic unit, which was so called, but their job was to go through the belongings of people that left their homes and, and they would pack them up send them to Germany. When the ghetto was closed, she was sent to a concentration camp first in Poland, and then she went to another German concentration camp. She, she suffered a lot."

"I think she was liberated by the British Army, and she also went to this displaced persons camp, and that’s where Eugene, Luke’s father and Lola, Luke’s mother met and they, you know they got together. Eugene heard that his whole family was wiped out and after a year, they decided to get married."

People Are Smiling When They Have Their Masks On - Harold Jeffries

"It it's about, the whole thing is about laugh and fun and...people who are going  places to do things smile at their place. To do things over there. People are going to other places to do things because they don't have no shelter and having a lot of fun at the carnival that's why."

"Carnivals are fun for they're safe. They keep it so that nothing happens to you living. That's why. Cool."

The Legend of Sir Wayne - John Mazurek

 

"Our mother used to take us to museums a lot. She used to take us to a place on the North Side of Chicago, used to be on the Gold Coast area...and it was a house set up pretty much like a castle. It was full of suits of armor and bows and arrows, and long swords and broad blades, and all kinds of Medieval types of ah, weaponry and things. When we'd get home from being in that place, my brother would draw swords and weapons, and design crowns for kings, swords for princes, and arrows for the great bowmen that he could imagine fighting his imaginary battles."

"Okay, this is gonna be a short story about what a knight would do. He serves his, he serves his king very well. And of course, to become a knight, he must know himself. A hundred percent capable. I said, a knight must be able to fight for his country, and the king himself. And make sure, above all, be very kind towards females - well, the people who help the queen anyway."

                                                                                                                          Sir Wayne Mazurek

The Art of Dead People - Luke Tauber

"I like making art of dead people to remember what they looked like, before, when they were alive, so to remember them, as they lived, as they used to live. And um, making sure, that that um, all, all the um, making sure all the bodies, are in the casket. And, I hope all the um, caskets,  hold each other, all the, all, each body, in so, we can remember them, in in in spirit. And, and make sure,we can um, tell, them, how how I, tell my uncle that I like doing it."

One Man Show - Harold Jeffries

 Q: When you're working on something how do you know when it's done?

"I look at it. I look at it and it doesn't move that's why. It's fixed and all that kind of stuff that's why...it's fixed and it's nothing wrong with, having something to sell, that you fix forever. Replace the parts for decoration so you can get paid for it, that's why."

Q: Harold, when you make art do you make it so that other people could see it, or do you have other reasons?

"Other people see it for other reasons, that ah, they could see the whole thing and they could buy whatever they want so that's why. The donation make it so we get donations so we can, buy for the company and get the things that people need and people stay overnight and, it's brand new. That's why. Yeah."

Don't Leave Home Without It - Wayne Mazurek

 

Wayne is never without his sketch book. While on the road to the auto show, he wasted no time in designing a new concept car for Audi.

"My car’s the only one. I’ll say, “My car is the only one of a kind that has a power table.” And they’ll say “Wow.” It’s long enough. It’s long enough so you could put a shopping bag on it. They’ll think of that. The car serves as a shopping cart. Huh, put the grocery bags on the table, push a button and the whole thing slides into the car."