Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, Stan sketched what was right outside the door — apartment staircases, buildings, streets, parked cars, people in front of their homes. Those early observations became woodcut prints revisited over the years. Music by The Bad Plus.

Artist: Stan Kaplan

Stan kept returning to the Brooklyn subway as subject across six decades — from early sketches in the 1930s to prints made as late as 2003. Music by composer Lou Harrison.

Stan's 1960 commission for a series of football murals at Manuche's Restaurant didn't end there. The research fueled a body of prints that kept evolving over the years. Music by David Karagianis, with game broadcast audio.

Watching Zasis perform was inseparable from drawing them. Rob Kaplan, Thomas Chapin, Bill Sloat, and Thad Wheeler entered every performance with nothing pre-planned — and Stan's sketchbook was always open. This video traces how those live observations became prints and ultimately an artist's book.