Big Crates

That room we cleared out is now the staging area for three paintings - in these huge crates! there is a smaller crate with books that hold informati

on about each painting's condition. As each crate is opened, the painting is examined to make sure there are no changes, or damage that resulted from the shipping.

All Set for 43 Crates

In order to make room for all the crates we are expecting for the old Masters' show, we had to move our shop inventory, our docent teaching area, and office, art suppplies and lots of other things. Look at he progress we've made!

Painting Over and Over

For the upcoming show, we are painting the galleries, as museums do in between each exhibition. All the nail holes have to be patched, colors chosen,  pylons (movable walls) painted  and border put on  he pylons. The rich deep red on these pylons took several coats. Notice the baseboard on has been put on one of them.

I asked our preparator if there were ever "too many nail holes and patches " in the walls. he said, Definitely.  Our walls are cinder block with plaster over them. It's hard to keep patching and painting and keep the walls stable and looking nice.

A Celebration of 30 Years of Service

Yesterday the volunteers and

staff met to honor docents for their service to the museum.  Here Deborah Borrowdale-Cox and Jane Shropshire present certificates for 390 years of teaching and touring to Anne Tauchert and Becky Faulconer.  What  an amazing gift they have given to the community!

Also honored for ten years of service was Saundra Lykins, and for five years, Jane Cutter, Kate Savage and Jane Shropshire, who is our  Chairperson of the Docent Council this year.

The group was very festive, sharing stories of

their tours. The dessert was especially cute with butterfly cookies!

Putting the Interns to Work

With a major exhibition coming in, we are expecting 43 crates. We have to make room! That means moving a office that we carved out of our back area.  Our Educaiton Intern, Sarah Velaquez, is busy moving the teacher outreach office from this

to this.  Sarah is here for the summer. She is a student from Vanderbilt. She is working  on several project, but took a break to help out.   We have another intern, Sam Humphrey who is an intern working with our preparator, Alan.  they are stacking vitrines and taking items to storage to make room for the crates. 

Art Club Visits Museum

The Art Museum hosted "sculpture day' for the SmART Sparks Art Club, sponsored by the Sisohprometem Art foundation, Inc.  Students toured sculpture both inside the museum and in the sculpture garden, had a nice lunch and then spent the afternoon creating their own sculptures.

The mission of the Foundation is to help youth to develop into confident, creative engaged citizens through participation in

the arts.

Mother Nature Blooms

Our Education Department worked with students to create a living work of art at William Wells Brown Community Center. It's not finished, because Mother Nature has to finish it herself!  Under Direction of Sonja Brooks, Artist/teacher Luke Eldridge worked with the students to create the sculpture of Mother Nature, which will be completed when the clematis they have planted grows up the armature. Plants and advice were provided by John Michler gardens. the project was funded by an EcoArts grant from LFUCG.