Halfway through week 3! *wipes brow*

One of the kind of different things that happen in an arts organization is that you are always open weekends, so your Thursdays become your actual “hump” days. This week has definitely been no less exciting in the beginning than any other.

There are a great deal of things happening at any one time at the PC. This week is our last week of our current NOWISM: Abstraction Today before we put up our summer exhibition, This Just In: New Acquisitions. It is a crazy time for our small organization, as last summer, we were closed to the public. This is our first open summer season and our first ever summer show. This is creating some interesting logistics/questions/policies that we have never needed to deal with before. Again, I am truly amazed by the flexibility and talent of thinking on their feet that the Pizzuti Collection staff possesses. So it’s a little crazy around here, but things are always moving!

This week, I am trying to get everything into place for our Junior Docents, from the Boys and Girls Club Summer Work program, to begin next week (yay!). I’m also hoping to hear soon about when tours will begin for the BGCC Summer Program. I can’t wait to get these kids (and young adults) here! It is my favorite thing when students walk into the PC for the first time. I love to watch the looks on their faces the first time that they experience this exciting art in person. It is one thing to look at a painting in a book, but to see it in person, to walk up so that your nose is an inch away from the canvas, to see where the artist had their hands on the work, see the brushstrokes, lines, fingerprints left in clay…it is an entirely new take on an object. It can be magical. It can be breathtaking. Sometimes, its even an out of body experience. You can completely lose yourself in a painting. I’ve lost an hour before in the galleries, just awestruck that another human being was able to create such beauty. This is why we need art. There is no other way to duplicate these feelings. And everyone should be able to experience them. I am so thrilled to be able to provide access to the kids from the Boys and Girls Clubs to experience these works of art. It very well could change their lives… Or at least provide a fun afternoon away from their everyday lives. Who knows?

Til Next Time!

JC