Luke Cooper is a painter and designer. He plans to attend CCAD next fall with his sister, Mauri Cooper. Luke's relationship with painting involves layers of study and research, he incorporates geometric shapes, color theory and design to create paintings that are highly pigmented and full of dimension. During our conversation Luke highlights his personal experience with ADD and how it has shaped his life in various ways. He talks about how his creativity has changed overtime, and how he has learned to keep focused on his paintings no matter how distracted he may become.

In this episode we are talking with Mauri Cooper also known by her art name "M.J". MJ uses her wisdom, experience, and experimentation to make moving, expressive works of art. Born and raised in Columbus, she loved going to museums as a child and practicing her creativity. However, creating art became essential to her well-being when she became ill due to meningitis.

Not only did she experience a chronic migraine for 9 months straight, but she lost her vision for 6 months, and was diagnosed with Amplified Muscular Skeletal Syndrome, Functional Neurological Disorder, Severe Photophobia, and Photophobia.

Join us as we talk about not only Mauri's experience with Meningitis but her experiences with racism within the healthcare system!

Our second artist features Regina Dorfmeyer. Regina is a 67 year old self taught artist, wife and mother from East Cleveland, Ohio. She received her Bachelor’s of social work from Cleveland State University in 1997, but discovered later in life, after she lost her sight, she wanted to pursue visual arts and become an impressionistic finger- painter. Her work has been discovered in Art Possible Ohio’s AEO shows and other events across Cleveland, Ohio.