Thursday 8 May 7 – 9 pm Utah time
'Mapping the West' Exhibition Opening
Michelle Rowley
The private view was a really enjoyable occasion for us. While we had gone home in the late afternoon to clean up Josh and his gallery staff had applied the final touches and brought the show together. It looked stunning and as we moved around the space all our hard work was made clear to us.
We had a busy night meeting friends and family of our BYU collaborators and we recieved very positive feedback from everyone. There is something about artists' books which invites curiousity and engagement from an audience and we were rewarded with an attentive appreciation for the ideas we had hoped to convey in our books.
I could see that my students were both relieved to have complete their work and to see that the quality and content of their pieces matched their peers at BYU.
Joe gave a short and emotional speech thanking us all for meeting the challenges of the two week project with good humour and courage. He presented each of us from WMC with a T-shirt commemorating all the places we had visited in Utah, starting with Walmart!
We were all a bit bleary eyed by the time he had finished as we realised that we would be going home the next day and this amazing experience would be over.
