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Podcast: Milwaukee PBS Digital
Episode: Erico Ortiz has created an inclusive and welcoming space for the arts in West Allis.
Description: Send us Fan MailOn the corner of 73rd and Orchard in West Allis stands a building that used to be a place of mourning and loss. For many decades it was called Skubal and Slattery Funeral Home. For the last decade however that building has been a hub for creativity and joy. That's all thanks to Erico Ortiz, the owner of what is now called Inspiration Studios.Ortiz purchased the building in late 2014. He was looking for a place to store his many paintings and host his displaced theater group. Inspiration Studios has undergone...