Report On A Lovely Day

In 2000 I met a woman who assisted me in getting Solar Flare and Deep Space displayed in the main terminal of the Tucson, Arizona, International Airport.

I had called and made an appointment to see her. Her confidence in me six years ago made a big difference in my life. I needed to tell her that and to thank her. It was the most delightful hour I have spent in a long time.

I handed her the book of all the tear sheets of newspapers and catalogs. She took the Flint, Michigan, news article and the saqa article about the exhibition at The National Civil Rights Museum. We pulled them out of the sleeves so she could have them. I have more.

Then I handed her The Left Turn Lane Portfolio. She asked for the artist's statement from that one.

Then, what joy, having conquered the iPhoto software that comes with my Macintosh I took all the slides that are going to Europe and set them in a 3 second slide show. She objected; I told her she could look at them individually in a moment. We did look at a lot of them closely, particularly some of the invitational works that haven't been seen yet. I promised that the CD catalog was almost done. I was able to load a CD and show her maybe 15 pages complete with the tri-lingual artist's statements.

I talked a lot about what I suppose you might call "coming of age" as an artist and a curator. Looking at the European Edition images, she said, "You are a curator." Nothing like validation from someone you respect, is there?

Her board meeting had been moved half an hour earlier. So we got a lot done in an hour. I had offered a local non profit the LTL years ago to loan for a fund raiser and they declined. Jan took the tryptic postcard, the statement, the Flint press, and set off to her board meeting.

I had told her that Alan Zinn at the Buckham Gallery in Flint had free hung the works. Although I did not get there I was told that he had hung the works so that you had to run the gauntlet to get into the gallery. Then you could wander among them seeing the line drawing stitching on the hand dyed backs.

The Tucson Pima Arts Council Grant Committee meeting is tomorrow at 4pm. The www had eaten the post so I just got the notice. The Cc said and "39 others." Oh brother, that means a very late night. Have to stand my ground and deny age discrimination and callow youths.