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What endures and how do we know? Beyond the hardscape and monuments, one spark of inspiration is cast across five generations into the rushing creative culture of a city. Sam Fleisher opened a school with the hope that beauty might flourish amidst Philadelphia’s turn-of-the-century industrial waste and congestion. Hundreds of thousands have passed through the hallways by now, that first idea refracting, spreading.

We meet three artists who are making Sam’s dream their own. Tina LeCoff is a retired government worker who uses her hourly wages from Target to buy oil paints and floor sized canvas. Chelsea Dalsey is a polymath, with a decade of advanced medical training, a stint in adult entertainment, and thirteen years of recovery from heroin addiction. Phoebe Murer has Asperger’s Syndrome. She lives and works on the top two floors of her mother’s row house with many, beloved pet rats. With them, we learn the ways of art as living and, sometimes, as a way to survive.