Test email sent to BA2

Brian, do you want to be copied on things?

BA 1&2 Exhibitions

Here's the low-down and the "official" dates:

BA1

Jerrye Huber, Shawn McPheron, Randilyn Woertz, Fran Dietl, Miranda Becht

Install, February 3, 4, 5

Exhibition dates: February 6 - February 15, opening reception February 7, 5:00 - 7:00

Dismantle, February 16, 17

BA 2

Wil Goolsby, Katie Smith, Zhalda Penn, Connie Goodwin, Jonathon Stephens, Dilu Nicholas

Install, February 18, 19, 20

Exhibiton dates: February 21 - March 2, opening reception February 21, 5:00 - 7:00

Dismantle, March 3, 4

Announcements for each exhibit will be covered by the gallery budget. Each group designs their own. Please follow past gallery announcements as template as there are IU branding regulations that must be followed. I would suggest that BA 1 go to the printer by mid-January, BA2 during the first week of February. You are each responsible for you own personal mailing, the gallery will cover the cost of the gallery mailing list (approximately 350). I would suggest a Facebook event page and we can all send to our friends lists. If you want to do posters, please discuss with Marilyn and/or Michael for permission to print in the MAC lab. Each group should designate a designer or design group to begin the design/discussion process soon

Each exhibit will have approximately $75.00 for opening budget, but that will most likely be taken up by contracted refreshments from the food services (such as a $70.00 pitcher of tea). You all will supplement with food you make, buy, or have made for you.

Everyone in each group is expected to show up to prepare the gallery for your installations, and for the dismantling of each exhibit. Each group and I will meet a few weeks prior to the installation to work our floor/wall plans.

PLEASE, work out the details of preparing your work prior to installation. This is a professional exhibition and your work should reflect that professionalism.

I have invited Miranda to become part of this blog, and Dilu has been following for a while now, so you can check here for details until your set up your own method/arena for staying in touch with the members of your group. This is very much another collaborative effort, please be supportive of your team.

Final Detail

Who would believe that the image from yesterday is the same space as Gallery Eclectica. The exhibit had a very successful run of four days plus the opening night. Preston's Newsletter estimated that there were 500 in attendance that night. The Tribune ran an article about the exhibit and quoted Shawn and Wil, who represented the group very well in their comments. The guest book had many glowing comments such as, "Fabulous", "Wonderful", "Terrific Show", "So much talent, be proud", "Great show, everything looks amazing". And, yes, you should all be proud.

Be sure to mark your calendars for the BFA Seminar opening on Saturday night, December 3, at 501 Pearl Street. The reception is from 6:00 - 9:00. It's that one night only, so if you don't show that night you'll miss it.

PowerPoint presentations will finish up our semester, beginning on Thursday December 1 and continuing on the 6th and possibly the 8th. No longer than 10 minutes please. You can volunteer for the order of presentation tomorrow during class. I will also distribute the Peer Assessment forms for the collaborative Project: ECLECTICA.

What does the future hold? There will be two BA Graduating Senior Exhibitions. The first is February 6 - February 16, with an opening reception on Monday, February 6, 5:00 - 7:00. The Second will be February 21 - March 2, with an opening reception on Monday, February 21, 5:00 - 7:00. Since Daniel was recently accepted into the BFA program in Ceramics, he'll not be participating. However, don't forget that Dilu will be with the group. So think about how to divide the group into two exhibits of five. Dilu, can you give us an idea of what you will be exhibiting?

See you tomorrow.

Sunday Smack-down

Tomorrow morning at 10:00 we'll gather for the last part of the collaborative project: ECLECTICA. If you have flat head screw drivers, bring them to remove the floor covering. If you need shots of the exhibit, be there on time. Lights and pedestals will be moved down the street for the BFA group. This has been a good run and there's been some good press and great word-of-mouth comments, you should all be proud.

See you tomorrow.

About Saturday

I'm sorry guys, but I'm going to need to take tomorrow off. I had to take my girlfriend to the emergency room due to an asthma attack and I'm going to be spending the day with her tomorrow to make sure she is recovering okay.

Saturday hours

This is what we said in class. Shawn needs a mental health day from that place and gave me the key! Have a great day off Shawn!

I'll actually be there from 1 till 7.

Dan said he would be coming in for a bit too at some point. And I'm actually going to clear some of my art out on Saturday so there is less to do on Sunday. :) E-mail me times and hours you can help. daughter_liberty@yahoo.com

Sat 26 - 1 till 7
- Jonathan
- Jerrye
- Katie
- 4 hours Randilyn
- 4 hours Fran

Uumm, soo... I guess I'll just show up at 1 PM on Friday and Saturday then... and stay 'til whenever...

Develop New Albany

Check it out the publicity! Never hurts to ask...
http://www.developna.org/

Friday and Saturday

What time am I supposed to be there again on Fri. and Sat.? >.> Gnomes seems to have abducted the paper I had it written down on.

Event of the Season

The early minutes of the opening.

Our gallery front.

Opening in full swing.

Lots of art lookers.

The biggest part of the crowd that maintained for at least two of the three hours.

This past Saturday's opening of the BA Senior Seminar exhibit was one of the most impressive seminar exhibits I've attended. Estimates from Don Preston and Kathy Brennan had the crowd at 650, although I heard others suggest 1000. Many thanks go to Don and Kathy for posting our press release on their Newsletter, which has 5700 subscribers. I heard many strong comments from many of our guests. Don Anderson, the first BA graduate from our program in 1979, was especially impressed with everything that you all did. I know some of you had cameras with you, so please get some of those shots to Shawn for posting on the web site.

I'm very proud of all of you. The exhibit looks great, the space looks great, the food was plentiful, and the crowd entered many very complimentary comments in the guest-book. After the confusion about the wine was resolved, the success of the evening went without a hitch.

The Sunday after the Jingle Walk, we'll need to dismantle the show and the space. Please plan on participating in this last phase of the project. We'll probably need a good chunk of time, so let's plan for 10:00 a.m. and go until we're done.

Amazing opening!!!!

We did it!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2386740919166.2117687.1570102103&type=3

Good Job

You guys really pulled together tonight. It was a lot of fun and hard work-I am so sore. We built a great exhibit and I am proud of all of you. That's what collaboration is all about. See you at 10am for the finishing touches.

• Labels
• Setup Tables
• Adjust Lights
• Clean and Vacuum
• Hide Power Cords
• Remove Light Bulbs in Randilyn's Area
• Sandwich Board
• Pickup Food at Restaurants
• Food Setup
• Open the Show!

Last call for web page edits. Look everything over and let me know what I screwed up.


http://www.galleryeclectica.com/

Food Confirmed

I've talked with someone at New Albanian, Wick's, and Habana Blues. Not sure how much we are getting from Wick's but I told him we would prefer smaller pieces for finger food but to do whatever he thought would best showcase his business. I assume he will stick with what he told me before which was a couple of 16" pizzas. As for New Albanian, we are getting two 21" pizzas and one 17", all party cut (square). Habana Blues is going to give us two aluminum pans of paella Espanola. For those who don't know, its a rice dish which I believe he said was made with chicken. We also have six gallons of tea coming from Tucker's, 3 gallons sweet and 3 gallons unsweet. We are expected to pick this food up around 4 from Habana Blues and between 4 and 5 everywhere else. Contacts for the business are: Jaime (Hi-meh) for Habana Blues, Scott for Wicks, Sarah for New Albanian, and Trey or Deanne for Tucker's. I'll be happy to pick up the tea and pizza from New Albanian on Saturday if someone can pick up from Wick's and from Habana. Any questions, please let me know. I will also be bring the wire racks we need for food on Saturday and since we are getting paella we will probably need more sterno which I can take care of.

I sent an email to Brian... Yes! Still framing!

Suffice it to say I've had issues with them. :( Mostly physical. What time do we need to be there tomorrow?

Lunch Friday?

Hi Everyone,

My dad gave me money to pay for lunch for everyone on Friday so would y'all like to eat pizza or something else?

Randilyn

Exhibit Tags

Please send your information to wgoolsby@me.com .

These need to all be properly spaced in your document (doesn't matter if its just in an email, a .docx file, a .txt file or whatever) so I know exactly what goes with what.  I don't want to have to contact people or guess as to what goes with what.  Please use the following format:

Name
Title
Medium

The tags will be 1.5" W x 2" H, so please make sure that the information will fit cleanly on that size.

Really Big Week!!

Both class times this week will be the photo-documentation workshop with Jonathan Ruth. He suggested that if you have a camera and tripod, bring them with you. Please try to be there on time so that we can utilize the entire 50 minute sessions.

The above images represent a transition that has been a lot of work. Some of you have been Herculean in your efforts to achieve a gallery space that will truly allow all your works to be seen in the best possible way. But, there is still a lot of details to follow through on before Saturday night's opening. Shawn listed some of those details in his Oncourse post from last Satudrday. They include:

• Finish taping
• Finish installing lighting
• Plan and hang artwork
• Installations
• Vinyl lettering
• Sandwich board

We also need to make sure that Randilyn's installation is complete. Her father has been doing the construction, but they may need help actually getting things put together before Saturday evening.

As we agreed, all work needs to be in the space on or before Friday. If for some reason you are not able to be there Friday, make sure your work is there. Those of you using pedestals, please have them at the space on Friday as well, you are responsible for getting them there. Please keep in mind that this is a group collaborative exhibit, not a series of solo exhibits. That means that all work must be in the space in order to design the entire exhibit, how one piece interacts with another, or how a grouping interacts with others and the space simultaneously. It would be good if everyone can be there for those decisions.

See you tomorrow.

Weekend work session

The transition from the left to the right is pretty dramatic, great job everyone. Of course there is still lots to do between now and the 19th.

• I will get with Earl from Physical Plant about the rest of the floor covering.
• Jerrye will be getting canvas scraps from the Painting studio for any flooring patch work.
• We still need to hang more of the black cloth above the grid to cover the water damage.
• We will review and discuss details of our press-release during class tomorrow.
• Daniel will retrieve the announcements (we hope).
• Shawn will check with Don and/or Gary about the stuff in the front part of the space.
• Katie and Zhalda will report on the vinyl lettering with a mock-up for tomorrow.
• Maybe Randilyn will have a sketch together for the sandwich board to also show.
• Connie is getting the details for the reception organized, and if you haven't given her your dollar food donation, please do so ASAP.
• Jonathon has secured another food donation from New Albanian.
• Everyone is getting their work prepared.
• Still a few more lighting issues to work out.
• Can we have a Saturday work session?

I know there are other things that need to be addressed, so any work sessions that you all can work out would be great. See you tomorrow.

See you at 10 am Sunday. Time change is happening too!

So, keep that in mind as you head out the door.

Also, those that didn't bring your financial commitment please do so.

I did confirm with Brian as well that we'll be meeting on Tuesday too to cover the press release.

Don't forget to bring your financial contribution...

I'll have what stoneware I have and you can all look and tell me what you think and if we have enough. I'll take a photo for Jerrye to see it since she's working and see if she has similar so it doesn't have the pot luck impression. If we need more than that or her pottery won't work I'll drive up to the potter's next weekend to pick up extra pieces.

Website

I have the website to a functional point, so I will be adding our individual artist pages. If you haven't already, send me 2 or 3 images (i don't need huge images-resize and crop as needed max 640 pixels wide) of your work if you want them on the site. Use email not OnCourse. Once the artist statements and resumes are final I can add those as well. Send me any other content you want on your page.

Take a look at the website, let me know what other pages we need. So far, I have pages for:

• each artist (us duh)
• details (dates, times, etc.)
• directions (maps and such)
• thank you (sponsors)

http://www.galleryeclectica.com/

Press Release

I am preparing a press release that will need to go out next week to the local media. I would like to include all those who have contributed in some way to our effort. Please try to get a commitment from those you have been working on. I have so far: Don Preston, Kathy Brennan, River City Winery, Wick's Pizza, and Porter Paints. Who else needs to be mentioned? Shawn, what is Gary's last name?Jerry, send me the $$ donor's name. Connie, resend me via email the hours of operation list again, I can't seem to find it.

And to tag on to this, for those of you who haven't, send me the final resumes by end of the day tomorrow.