Teamwork

Making art in the studio is a solitary endeavor. Installing a show is the exact opposite. The amount of teamwork involved is humbling and heartening. I’d like to thank all of the people involved in creating “Anthropocene” at the Jefferson Museum of Art & History but I don’t see everything that goes on behind the scenes. I can, however, thank those who worked directly with me. 

Thank you to Paul Larned for helping every step of the way from encouraging me in the concept stage, to solving technical issues along the way, to hanging a section of a cardboard tree from 18’ ceilings (and making it look easy!)

Thank you to Ann Welch for photographing my work, creating a beautiful full-color catalog, organizing (and participating in) the installation and so much more. Thank you for the heroic amount of work you devoted to this and for being the engine of a very long train. 

Thank you to Suzanne Lamon for her eye in making the displays really cool (and for my best review yet: “This work is NUTTY!”) Thank you for kicking this show up a notch.

Thank you to Shelly Leavens for doing all of the exhausting director-for-a-nonprofit work and for her inspirational vision for this organization. Thank you for seeing the value of art. 

Thank you to Kathleen Garrett for writing the stunning essay for the show catalog and spending so much time getting it right.

Thank you to Elizabeth Thorpe for the catalog back photograph and for two long, photo sessions with me.

Thank you to Ellie DiPietro for solving many, many technical problems, installing the gorgeous vinyl lettering and giving me a tour of the historical collection. Thank you for your professionalism. 

Thank you to Cliff Moore for bravery on tall ladders. Thank you for not falling! 

Thank you to Stephen Yates for painting (sorry about your mask!) and Jenny Westdal for the fantastic food.

Thank you to Laura for finishing touches and removing fingerprints and smudges. Beautiful. 

Thank you to Richard Alan Sloane for loaning me a stunning typewriter for the hands-on activity. 

The you to the Port Townsend Buy Nothing community for hooking me up with so much of the raw materials for creating this work: obsolete plastic electronics, discarded packaging and some vintage buttons, glue, thread and a typewriter.

Thank you to Kevin from the Port Townsend Paper Company for giving me a giant roll of kraft paper to use. 

Thank you to Paula Stokes and Paul McKee of METHOD Gallery who donated their time to create a space where I first showed some of this work. An incubator and experimental space like METHOD is so important, so helpful. 

Thank you to all of the Jefferson Museum of Art & History staff, board and volunteers and their funders for giving me the space for this show. I really am very grateful.