the climate was that, and there's one artist that was approached by the partment o education in those years that is the son of puerto rican parents that has already gone to art school at pratt-- so downtown-- and who's starting to lead a very prominent international career. his name is raphael montañez ortiz, and the department of education approaches him to build some curriculum so that curriculum studies will bring some of that puerto rican experience of being a latino artist to the schools. and he says, "no, we're going to create a museum. curriculum is not good enough." and apparently, they and... and then the man from the department of education was like, "well, that's so ambitious," i mean, "this is a very young man, imagine," and on. >> hinojosa: and he's basically saying... >> saying, "i'm going to create..." >> hinojosa: ..."i want to create a major cultural institution in new york city. >> and his answer to this man who's saying, "this is very ambitious," he said, "if i were an alpinist, i would be the first puerto rican climbing the everest, and i think climbing the everest