“Quiet Time”
This is the time of year when many of the faculty are gone from campus and people tend to think things are very laid back. However, this is a busy time of year for us – both in front of and behind the scenes.
Since the end of the academic year, Fabienne and I have made studio visits to Spanish Harlem and Sandgate Vermont. We hosted the Annual Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood Awards and the Crown Princess of Thailand. We also hosted The Stakeholders and a nutrition conference.
We have been finalizing details of the two Fall semester exhibits. We have been reviewing the contents for the Lina Puerta exhibition catalogue and designs for the invitation. Fabienne confirmed logistics for Lina’s show last week. I have been exchanging phone and email messages with Dona Ann McAdams on details for her ehxibit in November. We’ve also been exchanging phone and email with venues and insitutions around the country for traveling Dona’s show.
Today I spoke with the agent for John Ransom Phillips, whose work we are showing June-July 2010 – as well as with Tammis Groft, curator of the Albany Institute of History and Art with whom we are collaborating. I just got off the phone with the curator of the Perle Fine retrospective which we are hosting in November of 2010. Last night I spoke with the curator, in Santa Fe, of the Randy Garber exhibit we are hoping to mount in early 2012. Last week I emailed exhibition dates to an artist we are hoping to exhibit in October 2011.
There are fewer people around and fewer meetings. I feel I can be more casual this time of year. I suppose in that way it is a ‘quieter’ time…
