Deinstall of Threading a Legacy

This week the Exhibitions class was deinstalling the Threading a Legacy exhibit. The class worked collectively to take town all of the work and rewrap the work in bubble wrap and bags for protection and labeled for Susan. Once all of the work was taken down and wrapped, the nails used to hang the work needed to be unscrewed from the wall. The labels for all the work, along with the vinyl and fabric were all removed from the walls of the gallery. Once the nails were removed from the wall, some students started to fill in the holes where the nails were with spackle and patch up the wall. Once the spackle dried, the walls were painted over with white to match the rest of the gallery walls. The podium that was painted clay red for the exhibit was painted back to the gallery white. Susan came to MassArt to pick up her work and load into her car.

After deinstall was finished and cleaned up. Beth met with the class and we talked about the experience and feedback of the exhibit, and then about our final project. Beth read some responses from the guest book to the class. There were some beautiful responses writhed from Susan’s family, MassArt faculty, and friends. Beth also read an email from Susan that talked about all of the opportunities and responses that she personally received. Susan had been asked by the fibers department at MassArt to give a lecture or come to the reviews. Susan had several church groups that wanted to visit the gallery. There was also the offer of writing a review from a well known local reviewer about the exhibit. The overall theme of this talk was that the show was a major success and clearly touched many people in the greater Boston area. There were so many positive reactions to the show and many people that wanted to become involved with Susan and her work.

 



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