Brian Lair on WNYC, and for our last 15 minutes today, yes, we have a big birthday coming up next month on July 8th, WNYC will turn 100 years old. And as part of our centennial

festivities, artist Katie Mers, is creating something. People can see as you walk down Varick Street

and pass the building we're in. We have the ground floor theater, the green space, and it has

this big window. And she wants your suggestions of iconic New York images

to include in what she's creating. And I think she's working in the green space right now.

If she's representing 100 years of New York City visually in a variety of ways, what iconic

image might she represent in some way that comes to mind for you? Katie wants

your suggestions. 212-433 WNYC. Katie joins us now live from the green space and by way of background. Katie

Merse is a lifelong Brooklyn resident as well as an award-winning artist and professor of drawing at Cooper Union.

She's known for large-scale murals on buildings around the world.

Her biosites New York City, Mexico City, Denver, Austin, Lisbon at the International Design Building there and many other places.

She even once did a series of sketches of public radio people,

including me, without knowing what we look like and sent them to us. Mine was hilarious.

And Katie also has a PhD in Humane Letters from Ersinus College following the creation of the

Ersinus Smokestack, which was created, completed in 2020.

Hi, Katie.

Hi, how are you?

Good.

Where are you right now?

In the Greens Bayes Lobby, actually sitting on the floor.

Amazing.

Is it empty?

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