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Stokolosa recalls her neighborhood in Astoria at that time as being both a bustling urban area and a very tight knit community; she describes the mom-and-pop stores, movie theaters, and other distinctive sights and sounds of the neighborhood during her childhood. Stokolosa also reflects on her early interest in creating art, particularly sketching and painting, and the profound influence that the interaction of sunlight and urban architecture has had on her artwork. Specifically, Stokolosa highlights the significance of the elevated subway tracks in Astoria, the 59th Street Bridge, and waterways surrounding New York City in her life and her art.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eStokolosa attended High School of Art and Design located in Manhattan and later earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Hunter College. 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It is November 3rd, 2018, and we are in Long Island City. So how do you do, Claire? How are you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2.0,17.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm good, thank you. Thank you for coming to my studio. This is Studio 34. I'm in room 434 in Long Island City and we're on the Astoria side. Long Island City is made up of Astoria, Sunnyside and Long Island City proper, and the whole area is Long Island City, which can get a little confusing. But I grew up here and I now live in Bayside, Queens, but I'm back. My friends said I came back because my studio's here. I am a homemade Queens girl, born and raised in Queens. I was born in Boulevard Hospital on 43rd Street and I think 43rd Avenue, which is now an apartment building. Oh, well [laughs]. I think it's a fancy apartment building.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=17.0,71.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And I grew up on 33rd Street off of Broadway. It was a—and it is—but it was a very tight knit community. We played out on the street. There was the drugstore [Doris drugstore, clarified by interviewee] up the block that sold candy and we ran a credit there. So that would be paid off at the end of the pay period [at the end of the month]. You know, my [parents would] run a tab, and then my parents would go and pay it off [at the end of the month]. You know, it's very different than it is now. Before—pre credit card, I guess. I imagine there weren't credit cards. There may have been.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=71.0,110.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e My earliest memory is being in my apartment on 33rd Street. And we had French windows that looked out onto the street. They're like doors, basically French windows are doors [with glass panes]. And we were [facing the front of the building and street] and we had back windows too. And I just remember my mother sitting by the window, putting her makeup on with the natural light. And I also remember her just looking outside and watching the light and [when the light shifted to our side of the street at a certain hour], just closer to noon, she would let me go out and play. Then you could go out and play by yourselves with your friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=110.0,159.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And I just remember the shifts in the sunlight going through the fire escapes, and how it would cast different shadows on the building—[very urban here in Astoria, the buildings were all brick buildings]—and how [the shadows from the sun] fascinated me. I was always very fascinated with light. And I realized that later on in my painting and in my watercolors that I have this fascination for light.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=159.0,190.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e There was one house on our block. It belonged to the Presbyterian Church and it had a yard, and we would go there. The kids would go down there and play and get chased out of the yard [laughs]. That was our yard. But basically there were alley ways. There was Cat's Alley, you know, people would feed the cats and [there were] lots of stray cats. And it was just a fun place. We played stickball on the street. It was a fun place to be [and time to grow up].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=190.0,220.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e But I always did my art. I was always fascinated with my art. My parents—my father was from Polish Ukrainian descent and he grew up on the Lower East Side. And he [was]—his family is the [reason we wound up in] Astoria. [He was a kid when they moved to Astoria]—and my mother I'll just mention was Italian. My grandparents on my mom's side are from Italy, from southern Italy, and they lived in the Bronx. But my father, growing up on 10th and First Avenue in Manhattan. He went away to what was like the Fresh Air Fund now, but it was called—it was a little different. It was like a camp for underprivileged children. And he came back. He was about ten, eleven years old. I think he was like ten and his parents weren't in the house anymore. And the super[intendent] had a note with the address on it and said, your parents moved to Astoria and here, you take the train and this is how you get there. And this is before cell phones and, you know, [it was] a very different place [and time]. And imagine a little kid coming home and his parents aren't there and he has to find this place. And it was crazy, you know, like, take this long train ride on the subway. And he did, and they wound up staying here [in Astoria, Queens].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=220.0,306.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And my grandparents had a small little diner, a dinette, with another partner. And so my grandfather was a chef. And so he came here and started that business. And I don't remember it. I don't remember. I never met my grandfather. [But it was right on 34 Avenue], which is an avenue away from where we lived. It was either 31st or 34th [Avenue]. I'm not sure. [So we just kind of continued living where my father was raised]. He went to school at I.S.—I.S. which is intermediate school 126 on 21st Street between Broadway and 31st Avenue. Beautiful building built in the 20s. And he was the first graduating class in eighth grade.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=306.0,357.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And it just so happens that my first year of teaching art, I got a job teaching at 126. And so it's kind of incredible. I remember bringing in the graduation picture to show my principal because it was just a coincidence. It wasn't planned or anything. But it was very interesting, a real inner city school at the time. Rough. It was a real eye opener. I loved every minute of it. I loved my students. We would, I would have, I had this big, beautiful classroom that overlooked [the city]—you could see the city. You could see the bridges. [The classroom] had beautiful wooden floors and high ceilings—and I would have my students sketch out the window. Not hang out the window, but sit by the ledge and do observational drawing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=357.0,414.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And just so happens that for me, it was very reminiscent because I went to Art and Design High School in the city [on 57th Street and Second Avenue]. So I would cross over to Manhattan over the bridge, which is just 15 minutes to go to school. And I would do the same thing. You know, when I was in high school, we would sketch out the window and do observational drawings of Manhattan. It was in Manhattan. And so it was like that bridge, that connection, the waterways, always being surrounded by water. Right now, I live in Bayside and we're right by the water too. So there's something about the light in New York and being in Queens and where I live in Queens. I was always at the water's edge. By Astoria Park, which is right here, which is right along the East River. Always by water. And that's what I really love about New York and where I live in Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=414.0,474.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And I remember—I'm in Bayside now. I don't mean to skip around, but I live near Fort Totten. And my father was in World War II and he was—he lost his arm during D-Day. And so this is a little sad [shows emotion], but it was good. And so he got to go to the commissary at Fort Totten. So I remember as a kid going to Fort Totten, which is this beautiful Army base that goes back to the Civil War. And I remember going there and he would do shopping. Like, it was very inexpensive and it was pretty. We'd drive there. And he had this big green kind of bubbly round car. I don't know if it was a Chevrolet or what it was. And it was kind of like an automat [at Fort Totten] where you put the money in and then they would put the food through on the other side and you open a little plastic door. And to me, that was like, that's all I wanted. That's all I wanted, to get to do that and pull out a little piece of pie or whatever. So that was fascinating.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=474.0,541.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e But now I live in Bayside and I go to that park and I've done paintings there. So it's just like this—these overlapping things that happen to me and where I wind up, you know, in my life. But then my mom being from the Bronx, my father being in the army and losing his arm, with La Guardia when he was, you know, you think of LaGuardia Airport, but when Fiorello La Guardia became mayor, someone knew him and knew—someone that my father knew, my grandparents [unclear] knew Fiorello La Guardia, who was the mayor of New York, and knew he was starting a Veterans' Administration in the city. And it was really to help men who were—people who were wounded to get back to their lives and get them out of bed and get them from their depression.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=541.0,601.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e So my father was hired to work at the VA—I don't know if it was a hospital, but it was a center. And he worked to go and try and help people get back on their feet, you know,  literally and figuratively. And my mom—in those days there were phone operators, like, you know, with the switchboard and you move the wire and you would connect [people's calls]. So actually, my father, before he even knew what he was saying, he would say, \"I met your mom, your mother, online.\" You know how you say you meet someone online and you meet someone on the computer? Well, before that, he always would say, \"I met your mother online. She was the operator\" [laughs]. So it's kind of a different reference, but the same. And he asked her out, and she was from the Bronx, so that's how they met.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=601.0,650.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And when they got married in the Bronx, they wound up moving and living in Queens and living with my grandparents. So it was a little tough on my mother. And then there was the Fuller Brush man. So the Fuller Brush man used to sell things, go door to door and sell soap and brushes and things for the house and products. And he told my mother that there was an apartment opening up around the corner. So that's when they found out [about the available apartment and they moved into it. That was their connection to each other]—it was the double building where we lived. And then we wound up getting a bigger apartment when the rest of us—it was five siblings. I mean, I have four. I have a brother and three sisters, but there were five children. So we got a bigger apartment and it was a five story walkup. We lived on the first floor, thank God. And our windows were right there [unclear]—everyone's always out the window. And we had the wash lines in the back hanging the wash out in the back. And I remember even when they had it on the roof where you could hang the wash. I guess that's, you know, fire code hazard now, so they don't do that anymore.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=650.0,719.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e But it was a really close-knit neighborhood. All the kids played—we played in the hallway, we played outside, we played tag and stickball. There were lots of stores that were like individual mom and pop stores. There was the German deli, and then the Italian delis, and the pizza place. We used to go to the movie theaters. There were three movie theaters, two on Steinway [Street]. One was a Loew's and there was The Strand. And we'd go to the matinee and just, on a Saturday or Sunday, and buy popcorn and bonbons, little ice cream bonbons. It was all kids and crazy and noisy and we watched like a movie and a cartoon. And that's what we did. I'm sure it was inexpensive.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=719.0,772.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And then we'd go to the pizza place. And the pizza places were like a long counter and then there was an outside window that would lift up and they cut a slice from a big pie and then put it on a piece of paper and like throw, you know, kinda, not really, kind of throw it at you [laughs]. And then you get like a little tiny Coke, you know, not like what we think of as these big sodas. You know, you'd get a—and it was twenty five cents. I remember, twenty five cents. And it was delicious. So good. All the food was, you know, all the food was so good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=772.0,806.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And there were different—it was mostly, I guess, Irish, Irish Catholic, there was Jewish, there was Italian, Spanish. There were blacks, but it was—I would say it was segregated because of the projects. We have a lot of projects and I don't think it was—you know, I was too little, but I'm going to say it, that it probably was, like, most of [the] African Americans were in the projects. There were several projects. They were mixed. And, you know, the demographics have changed over time, definitely. It's just always maintained neighborhood, you know, whoever is living here, it's just great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=806.0,860.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e It's, you know, now, present day, one of my sisters still lives here and, I mean, I love it here. And everyone wants to move here [laughs], but I love it. And it still keeps that family sense to it, which I really like, and that little bit of hometown. And when the different groups come in, different ethnic groups, they bring that flavor and that food. And that's what it's always been known for, you know, that original food. You know, it changed, there was Greek and Muslim and different, whether it's Indian or—that's, so, you know, the foods change, but you get—you could get whatever kind of food you want and it's authentic and it's delicious [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=860.0,902.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And—but my, going back to me, my memory again was just playing outside and being home with my mom. And she was Italian, always cooking. She would make dough and she would give me dough and I would make little sculptures. I was always making my art. My sisters tell me how I used to just sketch, like, sketch objects, sketch the telephone, sketch anything I could. Watch TV, sketch the TV. You know, I have vague memories of that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=902.0,941.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And I know I was always tracked for art. In the first grade—I went to Most Precious Blood, which was a Catholic school through eighth grade. Then I went to Art and Design, a public school in Manhattan, right across the bridge, which was always part of my life, crossing this bridge, the 59th Street or Queensboro Bridge. And just always had art in my life. I was tracked for art. My first grade teacher said, \"She needs glasses and she's a good artist\" [laughs]. \"I don't know how smart she is—\" no, [I'm just kidding], but those are the two things she said. I'm still wearing my glasses and I'm still doing my art. And I just have this need to always do my art. But I just—always fascinated with light and color and paint. I think it's because I didn't see well, that I always saw color first and then I would see form and then I would see the line. The line was last.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=941.0,997.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e So we're right outside a very noisy street, so you just have—it's part of the neighborhood [laughs]. And so I just was fascinated always with color. And I just always loved making things and—whether it was like three dimensional out of clay or painting. I just always remember painting. My mom let me, like, set up my paints in the middle of the living room with the rug and the plastic covered furniture [laughs] and like a little table and I was painting away. But I just always, I always loved it. And I just—I love living here. I love living here and doing my art.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=997.0,1042.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And one thing is, I live by the trains. So I was right off of Broadway and we had the R train and the N train. And now they switch, so what you think of as the R is now on the N line and the N is on the R line. But that doesn't matter if you live here. They did switch. So the train, the letters for the train switch and the R originally was on the El train. And this is actually a painting that I did. This is from the El, of someone on the El train, and the El means elevated train because we have an L line that runs through 14th Street into Brooklyn. But when I say the El, it means elevated train. It's short for elevated train. And the other line was underground, which is the subway. And that was what we say. So that was our form of travel. Always took the trains everywhere and the bus.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1042.0,1098.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e Actually there was a Steinway bus and it went right to 59th Street and stopped, last stop, two blocks from my high school. So [the bus] made going to school in Manhattan really easy. So I could take the train and meet my friends on the train or I could take the bus. My girlfriend Irene [phonetic] would meet me by the bus and we'd say, \"OK, let's take the bus today.\" And so that was really always cool and convenient. And going, you know, I went to a Catholic school. My father—it was Most Precious Blood—I know my father helped fundraise to build that school, which is now closed a few years ago. And it was great. It was a little stifling because I was an artist, so wearing a uniform, you know—but it was great. We had a lot of tradition and the church was—it was a good place. I just liked a little more freedom than wearing my uniform because I wanted to be more expressive [laughs]. But otherwise, you know, it was good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1098.0,1161.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And I, you know, I remember, I especially remember the teachers that were really interested in art. And we always did a little more extra art projects. And I always wanted to do my, of course, my art homework first. You know, and I would get home, it was like, \"Oh, I have this.\" And my mother said, \"Well, what about—\" and I was like, \"I want to do this first. I want to do this first.\" I was always doing my art. And I remember the people in my life who always brought me art. Like my friend, who lived on my block, my friend Debbie [phonetic] and her—I have more than one friend Debbie [phonetic], but the younger one, and her aunt was an artist. So I did my first oil painting at her aunt's house. She set us up, and she lived in one of the newer buildings that had—on Crescent Street. And it had a patio and, you know, it was probably built in the 60s. And she set us up with a little easel and the paint tubes. It was the first time I used oil paint, and I remember I painted a tree with a squirrel on it. And I remember like after that, you know, painting my mother's vases and just like objects in my house. And I got my own oil paints. And I never stopped. I never stopped.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1161.0,1235.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And then my brother, who was older than I was, had friends that went to Art and Design in the city on 57th Street and Second Avenue, a specialized high school. And I took the test, and I got in, and it was life changing. So, you know, the hoop earrings, and the babushka that my grandmother used to use, I wore the scarf around my head. And now it was—that means scarf, and you know, I love that freedom. And we got a really strong, great, my friends and I got a great art education, very strong base. And it's a wonderful [school]—it was just rebuilt. It's in Manhattan and it was just rebuilt. And it's just around the corner now. So they bought the air space, so it was low, so now there's a big high rise and in exchange they built a beautiful state of the art school. So—and actually, I won an art award as, an art teacher award, and I was presented at Art and Design because they had the conference there. So it was very special to me [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1235.0,1301.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e I enjoyed art for many years. And I have my BFA, my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and—from Hunter College, which was right across the bridge on 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. Again, just taking the bus. Moved to Sunnyside. There was another bus that just went—the Q60—that went all along Queens Boulevard and stopped, you know, on 60th Street. And then I would just walk uptown to 68th. So that was my form of transportation, really, buses and trains. And I had this fascination with light and trains and train tracks. And I talked about the light and the fire escapes, I also lived by the El, the elevated train. And it was—you'd see like the train would pull in and pull out, and as it did it would change the light as it would go over the tracks and it would cast these shadows. And you would hear that click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click noise. And so it would pass by and it was fascinating to me. It wasn't noise. It was like a melody, you know, it was just like, it was like a song.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1301.0,1371.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And I remember—and I have my whole series, my, you know, I did all my sketches, I call it New York City Faces of the New York City Subway. People on the subway and people in transit that I'd worked on. And actually that's, jumping around a little bit, but I just did that, I was teaching an art history class uptown in Washington Heights and on my way to work—I was in Bayside, so it was a long train ride—I was on the LIRR [Long Island Rail Road] to 34th Street and Penn[sylvania Station] and then I take the 1 uptown and, or the A, and I just, everywhere, no matter where I was, everyone's on their devices. Everyone was on their phones. It's a different world than when I was little. And I said, \"What's going on?\" So I said, \"I'm going to document this.\" So I started—I always sketched. I sketched when I was in high school. I always sketched. And so I started drawing them and I enlarged them and did a whole series of paintings on them. But always that fascination with the subway, with transportation, bridges, getting—passageways back and forth, getting across waterways. Because again, I was surrounded by water and I was always fascinated with that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1371.0,1448.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And a little bit of an activist. There was a very old building, a school, on Steinway Street right off of Broadway, and it must have been built at the turn of the last century or before. Maybe sometime in the 1800s. And when it came down, the community was trying to get a park built. So we would go there. We were just kids, like ten, and the Girl Scouts would go. I wasn't a Girl Scout, but I would go with them. And we just would like try and clean up this huge, massive lot. And we would like take bricks and make this huge pile to make a statement. We built this huge mound that must have been like a story high. And we wound up getting a park. Half of it [is] a park and half of it is a parking lot and it's still there. The parking lot and the park are right on Steinway between Broadway and 31st. So we did get something accomplished.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1448.0,1509.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And we did fight—I remember when I was a child, we had the movie theater. And Loew's was this big, beautiful old movie theater and it had like the king's chair with the crushed velvet, red, and very gaudy. And like it had the big balconies with all the stairways leading up and you'd go and sit in the king's chair, like, your feet would dangle. And I remember people when—were fighting to keep the theater from being destroyed and they did not succeed. And they also were doing a petition because of cable TV. We didn't want to pay for TV. So this was—so I guess I had a little bit of activism and neighborhood activism in me. And I've always tried to do what's right for the community. Very active in my union. I was an art teacher for many years and always trying—like wanting to give back and I guess it came from when I was young. I have that in me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1509.0,1572.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eZACHARY RYAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Is there anything else that—of this area, that has really affected your life?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1572.0,1580.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e The life that—this is a very urban area. And I grew up on Broadway, which is where all the stores are. There's Ditmars [Boulevard] and there's Broadway. There's Steinway Street. There are certain avenues that have most of the stores. And I would say just being [surrounded]—like being in a hub, I need that energy. I go to Italy and I stay in a town that has that kind of life to it, even though it's small, and I go back and forth with my art career. But I love home—the little mom and pop stores that were along Broadway. I love the restaurants that are here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1580.0,1626.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e We really didn't go out to eat much. There were certain restaurants. My mother was very particular where she went to eat. She was an incredible cook. Everyone, like, if they talk about my mother, they talk about her meatballs. She was an incredible cook and very, very kind person. Open door. Living in an apartment building with the people, we'd like talk to each other through the window or come in and out of each other's homes, like, open door. And I don't know if that was because of my family, but everyone was super friendly. So having all the stores, but also having that small sense of community really stayed with me. You know, that friendliness, that safeness. I love stores. I love shopping. I love touching things. You know, forget the Internet. You know, I just love that. The noises. The smells.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1626.0,1679.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e On Sundays, you know, people cooking and being in—as a kid, we'd like wander through the back alleys. I guess we did a lot of dangerous things, you know? And just hearing that mumbling of the sounds and the cooking and the aromas of the cooking of the different, you know, like different smells from whoever was cooking. I talked about different ethnic groups. You'd smell it. And just hearing that kind of quiet because it was a busy area, but on Sundays it was still where everything closed on Sunday. And that was really special. And I remember when I first went to Italy and I was in Florence and it was a Sunday and I was walking through the streets. And it brought me back to that time because I heard those same sounds, you know? And it was interesting because my mom was Italian, so there was that kind of—and, you know, I guess there were a lot of Italians in the area then, different groups.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1679.0,1733.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e But just I remember the—our school had a big parking lot. And in the—once a year they had a bazaar. We had the Ferris wheel and we had like where you would, you know, the wheel, spin the wheel and you could place a bet. And little rides. And that was like incredible. Like everyone, \"We got to go. We got to go to the bazaar.\" And I—you know, so that was like all these big things. These were events. When I grew up and when I was going to school, when I was really young, there was a chicken coop across the street, on Broadway, from my school. And you'd see the—I'm sure I didn't know they were wringing their necks—but there were little chickens walking around on Broadway. You know, to me, they were like pets [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1733.0,1780.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And, you know, it just—we had the Trip to the Moon and the Whip. Those were rides that would come down our street. They were like on a cart and you paid ten cents and you'd get to go on this ride. And, you know, Mister Softee and the sound of Mister Softee and the Good Humor bell. You know, there was a lot more. I remember when I was really little, home with my mother looking out the window, there was a woman who used to come and sing like opera songs. And she was dressed like, you know, with a shawl and she had the scarf tied up on her head and she'd come in the alleyway and she'd sing opera. And my mom would wrap—the back alley our window was higher, in the front it was lower—and my mother would put money in like a little tissue and I'd get to throw it down to her. And I'd peek out the window. And that was like, incredible. Like, I didn't realize how much music was and sounds were in my life, and I'm talking now and I'm realizing it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1780.0,1847.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And then I remember the junk man used to come and he had a truck and he'd come down and just go [sings], \"Aleo, Junk. Alley-Wack. Any old junk.\" And I was so—he was scary looking. I don't know if he had many teeth and was kind of scraggly and he'd always come by the window and like wave at me and I'd kind of hide [laughs]. You know, because I guess I was home—my siblings, I have one younger sibling, my sister Annie, but my, Marianne, Teresa, Peter, they were out at school, and so I was home with my mom a lot. So she definitely influenced me a lot. And, you know, it was the age of TV and all the sitcoms. And I love TV [laughs]. I am an avid reader, but that wasn't 'til later on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1847.0,1899.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e I always did my art. I don't know where the influence of art—my mother was always so good at it. The food always looked so beautiful. She always decorated beautifully. My aunt on my father's side wanted to be a, you know, a seamstress, but a fashion designer. But I don't think—I think that was kind of taboo. My father, he used to go in to Broadway and to—there's a bar, it's still there, I don't know what it's called now—and listen to Tony Bennett. And I actually met Tony Bennett at an awards ceremony, you know, because he's very pro for these specialized high schools that are in danger now. They're very, very important. They're throughout the boroughs. They're for all different subjects and they're trying to get rid of them. And they're so vital and important. But I met him and he's so kind and I went over to him and I told him that my father used to go and listen to him. And he, I don't know if it was true, but he goes, \"Those were some of the best times of my life,\" when he was starting his career. He was such a nice man.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1899.0,1965.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And like Ethel Merman, you know, like, I think Rose Marie from The Dick Van Dyke Show went to school—they went to Bryant High School. My father went to Manhattan to school, to high school, but my aunt went to Bryant High School. And a lot of people who, you know, wound up being famous went to school there. A lot of them came out of Astoria. I don't know why, but—and we all kind of stayed, you know, I have my family in the Bronx. You know, it's funny. New York is kind of very worldly and very provincial. So I know a lot of people move to New York, but a lot of my friends that were born and raised here, like, our families are here. Like, we stay. Like, you know, I'm really in Queens, my other family is in the Bronx. Some people have moved away, but people kind of stay close.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=1965.0,2022.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e So there is, you know, we have—there's a wrong impression about New York because there is this close-knit community here. There's like this inner smaller community. And people are friendly. They might be a little rough, but they really are helpful and friendly. You just have to—I have friends that come here from Italy. They don't speak English. And they were saying they were trying to communicate and they were like trying to order a coffee. It was in Manhattan. And it's like, \"What do you want? What do you want?\" She said, \"Oh, my God!\" Like she was trying and she didn't know what to do. It was just funny. It was comical. But we really can be helpful. You just have to get past that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2022.0,2062.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e But I would just say that there's something about Long Island City. I mean, there's some reason why everyone's coming back here. It's getting very expensive. It's sad to see all the high rises that are going up. There's so many. I mean, I hope they do family—I hope they do planning for schools and sewers and hospitals. So many hospitals have closed. The hospital I was born in, St. John's Hospital on Queens Boulevard down by Woodhaven, I mean, we need hospitals. We need to plan for schools. We need to plan in every which way. You know, it's—we have to have not just putting up buildings and factories. You know, and when I say factories, I grew up, there were all factories. The Swingline factory for the stapler. I grew up with—there were a lot of factories here and a lot of manufacturing in Long Island City.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2062.0,2117.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e But now when I say factories, I mean they're just putting up all these high rises. And I hope they think of urban planning and what they're going—you know, and saving some of that community because a lot of communities throughout Queens are being shut down. Like in Kew Gardens there's a whole little neighborhood and that land was leased by the railroad and all those stores were told they have to leave and they're going to be putting up high rises there. So like, it's nice to bring people in, but then where are they going to shop and where are they going to eat? You know, we have to think of those changes. And I hope, I would just want to say, like, with my art, I hope—I always had my art. It always brought peace and energy to me. I want to express things that are good and happy. And I want to use it as a window, a window in and out, and I hope I keep doing that with my art. And I hope that people just stay aware and are involved in their community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2117.0,2181.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eZACHARY RYAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you see yourself ever leaving this area for somewhere else?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2181.0,2187.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e I love—I live part of the time in Cortona, in Tuscany, in Italy. I can never leave New York completely. It is too much a part—I mean, I always tell, I used to tell my students and I, even when I work with art teachers and as a mentor and doing professional development for the city—but I don't like to use the word never, but I can't imagine totally leaving New York. And I guess, you know, I always wanted to, when I was younger, I was kind of embarrassed that I lived in Astoria. It was like blue collar. I always looked—I would go in Manhattan, I'd look at all the big buildings and wanted to live there. And actually, recently, before I moved to Bayside, I thought about it and I looked and I wound up moving to Bayside, which to me used to be the country, you know? So far away. But I remember I used to go to the commissary there. So it's like, you know, going back and forth to these neighborhoods, these little triangles. And I don't think I could ever leave New York and leave Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2187.0,2261.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And one other thing that's very funny is I'm in Bayside by Fort Totten and it's by another bridge. It's by the Throgs Neck Bridge, which is right across from my aunt's house. And they live right on the water there. Always surrounded by water. We used to go to the Bronx. We used to swim in the East River all the time. And my cousin told me that she used to rowboat across to the shore in Bayside and pick up her friend in the rowboat in Queens—that's my phone, technology, times have changed—and rowboat across back to the Bronx [laughs]. But there's like kind of that triangle, you know? Like, I had a lot of friends in Brooklyn. Always in Manhattan because I—always the east side, mostly—because it's right across the river. But I just I can't imagine ever leaving here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2261.0,2317.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e I—my grandparents are in Calvary Cemetery on Queens Boulevard. My family and my grandparents are in the Bronx at St. Raymond's [Cemetery]. And I'm very nostalgic. I really hold on to things. And, you know, I don't know. We'll see. I hope to spend more time in Italy and I love it there, but I think it's because it holds some of, the town I stay in, holds some of the qualities where it has a lot of culture, has a lot of the arts. They appreciate my art there [laughs], which is good. And it has what this neighborhood offers, so that friendliness, also the culture. But, you know, I taught in Queens. I taught art in Queens. My studio is in Long Island City. I taught in Corona, Queens. I taught in Glendale, Queens, which I didn't even know where it was until I got [there]. I taught in Astoria, my first gig teaching. And, you know, it's like, I was raised here, I went to school here. I went to school, you know, for, in Manhattan, but this is like where I am. I live here. Probably die here [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2317.0,2394.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eZACHARY RYAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you enjoy making your art based on things that you see here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2394.0,2402.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I always—I'm very influenced by the architecture and the light. And one of my favorite paintings is Edward Hopper's Sunday Morning, and it's of a—there's like a barbershop pole with the stripes on it. It's like red and white in the picture and some old store fronts with the old façade of buildings. And I swear to God, that's what it looked like right around up the block from where I lived. That's [the way it looked] exactly. It was the barber shop. There was a little grocery store. There were a few buildings. And I'm very influenced by the architecture and the light in Manhattan and in Queens and in my neighborhood and the trains and, you know, the tenements, which are disappearing, and the high rises and the bridges going up. Yeah, I'm just so—my view is always of Manhattan because I'm on the Queens side, but I'm very influenced by the people. I sketch the people. I paint them. I try to keep that in my life and use it as my art is a form of communication.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2402.0,2484.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e What's funny is my phone was ringing, which is on my wrist because it's a watch [laughs], and I feel like Agent 99. You probably don't know who Agent 99 is. [It's] from a TV show, from Maxwell Smart [Agent 99 and Maxwell Smart are characters in the television show Get Smart, clarified by transcript editor]. But when I was a kid, they had phone books. There was the White Pages and the Yellow Pages and they used to have original art—not original art, but images—and one of them was Sunday Morning by Hopper. And you could send away and I got this free poster of that scene and I framed it—the way I could frame it, I was just a kid—and I put it up in the room, in my brother's bedroom because I didn't have my own, I shared with my sisters, but I used to decorate his room. And I remember going to the Whitney [Museum of American Art] and they did a show on him and they had his easel and they had that painting on it and it was the most incredible thing. But I love his because he really deals with light—Hopper, he's one of my favorite artists—and the light in the city and the scenes. And when I draw, whether I'm in Italy or whether I'm here, I like to take in the architecture, the people and life around me. I'm fascinated with it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2484.0,2563.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eZACHARY RYAN:\u003c/strong\u003e So you mentioned that you're fascinated by people and life. Are there any noticeable differences that you've noticed between life and culture here versus overseas?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2563.0,2578.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e They—in Italy, I would say that they're slower, and I mean that in a positive way. They appreciate living more, just enjoying. You know, they go to work, they work very hard. They have—they still have the long lunches, the siestas. Everything still does close down. There are some places where it doesn't, but basically places close down. Then they go back to work in the evening. They go home and they hang out. In some—in the cities it's changing a little bit, but they go home, they relax and then they go back to work and everything opens back up around four or five o'clock. It's, like, incredible. Like everything just—so it's like, OK, it's hot. OK, it's this or that. And they go home and they do their shopping or they do whatever, and then they go back and they open up things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2578.0,2637.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e I remember I was in Italy last summer. I go several times a year, and often in the summer. And I was, I always do my walk in—it's a walled city. It's Etruscan walled city, you know, Renaissance, it goes all the way back. And this is Cortona. And I always do my walk around the mountain and I was walk—and I end up back in the park. And there were these women walking their dogs in front of me. And I was thinking about work. I was thinking about my artwork and a painting I was doing and how I was going to solve the problem. But it was actually, as much as I love my work, it was a little stressful because I was trying to solve—you know, painting isn't just when you're in front of the canvas. There's a lot that goes into my art. You know, thinking it through, the concept.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2637.0,2683.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And so I was like, all of a sudden I was like, [takes a deep breath]. I mean, I took, I had this deep breath, and they turned around [in] Italian—I speak, you know, some Italian—and they turn around, they were like, \"What's wrong?\" You know, \"What's the matter?\" And I said, \"Oh, I'm thinking about work.\" And they said, \"Well, don't think\" [laughs]. It's like, in other words, not not to think but—they're intelligent people—but relax. They enjoy life. I think New York is a little, as much as I do love it, the pace when I get back, the pace is a little fast. You know, while I love it and I miss it, I guess as I get older, that's why I like to spend—I think of Italy as like my Florida. A lot of people in New York go to Florida. They snowbird. I want Italy to be my Florida. But my husband says it's a little further than Florida. But we go quite often.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2683.0,2740.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eZACHARY RYAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Is he here in Queens with you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2740.0,2741.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. We live together. We got married a few years ago in Cortona, in the town, and he loves it there. He's from Italian descent also and—on his father's side—and he loves the life there. His mother's also from the south, like from Alabama here. So it's like from being, from southern Italy and having, and from being, he has—it's almost like that's what the pace is like. They're more southern in Italy, like, you know, like southern here, they're slower—except Rome is different—but, you know, they have that pace that, oh, take it easy, sit down for a while. You know, you chat first. You're not just like—sometimes when I'm at the gallery and I deal, John Marie [phonetic] is, you know, he runs the gallery, and sometimes I'll ask him about [something], he says, \"Tranquile, tranquile. You're not in New York, relax! You're in Italy, please! You're not in New York, don't be in New York.\" So I have that pace in me and I have to learn to like, chill.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2741.0,2807.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eZACHARY RYAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I was gonna say, which pace do you feel like you have more of?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2807.0,2811.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I do have that, I have that—you know, especially when I was teaching. I was on the schedule in the public school and I was always an advocate, always joining programs, involved in outreaching, and getting involved with the museums. It's a lot of work, you know? So, looking for things, and my principals always supported me, but I had to do like the footwork and then say, \"How about this?\" And they were like, \"Can you make it work?\" And, you know, \"We are behind you.\" You know, I was lucky that way. I was very fortunate. And it was always for the kids, you know. But, I love that, but I think as I get older, you know, I'm slowing down a little bit [laughs]. And I made, I just recently made the decision to do my art full time. I always did my art, even when I taught art, I was always a working artist. But to do it full time and just to, you know, put myself into that and share my art, help other people who want to find this journey of being an artist full time, and also giving back to the community, which is always very important to me. So, you know, you learn the pace. It's like a dance. It's like a dance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2811.0,2892.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eZACHARY RYAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What do you hope people take away from your art?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2892.0,2898.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e I hope they're inspired. I hope it brings them a smile, happiness, and insight at the same time. I did—I had a show called Le Donne and it was—Women, means Women in Italian—and I did it, it was in a college in the city, at Boricua College. And it was all women, all the images, except actually this painting. You can't really see it, but this painting was in it. And this is actually someone I knew from Italy. It was a boyfriend who came here because a lot [unclear] migrated here to make a living. And this is the El Train on Broadway. And I have a painting of me on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. And it's all about bridges and passageways. So I want my art to be a window, a bridge, an opening. And in the show, it was all women in their different roles.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2898.0,2964.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And these, if you ever look at an old building in Italy, they'll have like two—and in other countries, too—they'll have like the gargoyles or the lions, and a lot of times they'll have people bearing fruit, like as greeting people coming into a big palazzo, a big building. And so I had these two framing when you entered the gallery. And then I had all the people in, you know, as lover, as mother, as sibling, and in their different roles. And that's what the show is based on. And I remember one kid looked at this picture, and he was Spanish and it was, you know, blonde, it was like a woman with blonde, baby blue eyed, and he looked at it and he says, \"Oh my God. That reminds me of me and my mother.\" And that's it. That's what I want my art to do. I don't want it to be like, that's not me or I can't relate to that. I want it to create—I want it to move people. I want them to—I want it to be, whether you're looking at people in the subway, I want people to identify and relate to it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=2964.0,3031.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And what better way through art—and I thought New York City, the subway in New York City. You get all kinds of—I'm jumping around—but you get every walk of life. You have the homeless. You have people traveling from all over the world on the subway. You have people with lots of money taking the subway. The mayor takes the subway. You have, you know, people who have to share a Metrocard because they can't afford another Metrocard and they have to meet—and I know this from experience from people I know—that they have to meet someone at the station to get that Metrocard because they can't afford to get another one, and share the Metrocard back and forth to work and school. So you have all kinds of walks of life on the subway. And it's—we live in harmony on the subway. I know you hear a lot of bad things, but really, how many people are on the train? How many masses of people are on the train living peacefully? I want to capture that in my art. I want my art to speak about peace, about communication, and I want it to bring a smile.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=3031.0,3095.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eZACHARY RYAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What advice would you give people who are looking to follow in your footsteps or enter this field?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=3095.0,3105.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e It's hard. It's fun. You have to have the passion. You have to believe. And just go for it. Just keep pounding the sidewalk. You know, there's more to it than just—if you want to just make your art and have it and keep it intimate for yourself and your family, that's good. If you want to go beyond that, know what you want, define what you want. And it may change. Go back and look at that over time. Be open. Share with people. Share with—don't be like, \"I need this all for myself.\" You—I learned from a lot of people and I pass it on. It's just a lot of work. Be determined. Be organized. You know, as an artist, you know what kind of—I can speak for myself, I'm kind of like all over there. But I think my teacher training helped to keep me solid and keep it together. It's just like, follow your dream and, you know, don't give up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=3105.0,3169.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eZACHARY RYAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Is there anything else that you would like to add?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=3169.0,3174.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e This was very emotional.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=3174.0,3177.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eZACHARY RYAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you have fun with it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=3177.0,3178.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=3178.0,3179.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eZACHARY RYAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You seemed to enjoy it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=3179.0,3181.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. It was very emotional. Probably didn't talk about a lot of things. It was a lot of fun. A lot of stories. Just, thinking back on my family, friends. You know, I didn't mention a lot of people by name or anything, but just like my—the connections, like, having all these siblings and they had friends and the extended families. And one thing I want to mention, growing up, there was the telephone. We used to lock ourselves in the big closet and talk on the phone. I remember my father pounding, telling my sister get off the phone. But what is lost—and this is important—what has been lost is, through having a telephone in the house, everyone got to know their parents' friends, even if it was via telephone. You would pick up the phone, you'd have a little conversation, you pass it on. You would talk. You would know who your brother's friends were from that. You'd know who would call at a certain time. You'd know your father's friends, your mother's friends. They knew—there was, it was more sharing of people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=3181.0,3250.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e And now, it's great that we have our private phones and we can reach each other so quickly, but we've lost that community. So there's always give and take by having these phones, which I did this study, drawing people on the phone. We don't share as much. So we have to try and keep that balance and speak to people, look at people. I draw them, so I look at them [laughs]. So many times I catch them when they find me [looking at them], drawing them, but they rarely catch me drawing them because they're always like this [imitates staring at a phone]. And just we need to keep community and—because communication will bring us peace, and fear and hatred and thinking people are different is only going to divide us and it's not going to lead to good things. So, just be open, be open to new things and don't be afraid.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=3250.0,3315.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eZACHARY RYAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Alright. Thank you for your time, Clare. This is Zachary Ryan and Clare Stokolosa, November 3rd, 2018 from Long Island City.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=3315.0,3324.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCLARE STOKOLOSA:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you, Zachary.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=3324.0,3325.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181/transcript/79967/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eZACHARY RYAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/153/collection_resources/148654/file/273181#t=3325.0,3327.32082"}]}]}]}