organizing a show of 41 grad students is hard work! but i'm very pleased to say that on friday of this week, we opened our show successfully, and packed the gallery right full.
third wheel was (is) the interim show of all ECA MFAs - that means two years worth of drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture students all jammed together in one. and only four brave students trying their best to get it all together with very little time. i was one of those four students. it was mayhem. art students have a lot of ideas - usually conflicting - and are not very good at communicating those ideas or listening to other's ideas. whoa. arguments. fights. i spent a lot of time just trying to be sure things were peaceful.
highlights!
-resetting the show at least four times before we could all agree on it and make MOST people MOSTLY happy.
-no heat in the gallery. i spent the better part of four days in that building. with no feeling in my fingers or toes.
-one tiny little lady being soooooo unhappy with where her sculpture was (because there was a PAINTING behind it that people would SEE while they were looking at HERS... rant rant rant...) that she threatened to pull her sculpture if we didn't move it - all this on the day of the opening. apparently compromise is something not everyone understands. 41 people! for gods sake, compromise is necessary!!!
- everyone looking so lovely and pretty at the opening, and laughing and smiling because it was all finally dealt with and done, and it looked great.
and very best of all - i finally learned all the names of all the sculpture students AND got to see examples of everyone's work. which was beyond grand.
2 comments:
I think the woman who could only focus on her own work would be the lowlight, not a highlight. Gaah! Replace that highlight with the comment I saw on your wall "thank you so much for all you did this week, You were the glue that held the rest of the bunch together. I appreciate you..."
Nice work, Gluuper
congrats! looks like an awesome show!
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