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Marie Watt at the Hallie Ford Museum…

12 Monday Mar 2012

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My final picture of the 2012 version of “Dwelling” with the artist Marie Watt, her daughter Evelyn, and the big stack o’ blankets.

Friday night was the ceremonial opening of the show, delayed for a month until Evelyn was born and Marie could be here from New York.  Marie spoke interestingly about her work and her life as a working artist…to a packed house,

and then we went down to the galleries…

Saturday morning Marie met a group of volunteers…the hardy band of sewers who bound blankets, plus the students who helped put the installations together…

and she walked us through the show with many interesting stories and insights…

You still have a couple of weeks to get into the Museum and see the show!

Dwelling/Engine

27 Friday Jan 2012

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I dropped by the Hallie Ford Museum at the end of the afternoon Thursday to check on progress and they have really been working…as I arrived the team (which included Museum Director John Olbrantz) was in their socks ready to carry and attach the cladding for “Engine”…

and here’s the interior of the lower “entrance” section

meanwhile in the large center gallery “Dwelling” is really taking shape…

It turns out that after each couple of blankets it is necessary to pound on the stack to tamp it down and eliminate the tendancy to “dome”…

By the time I left they had stacked over 400 blankets…ALMOST to the half-way mark….

Looking GOOD!

Marie Watt: Lodge

25 Wednesday Jan 2012

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Marie Watt’s show “Lodge” is starting to take shape over at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art today…I dropped by to check on the piece “Dwelling” that a bunch of us worked on this month.  I thought you might like to see it coming together…

Today there were stacks of blankets as yet unwrapped,

and they were just beginning to lay out the blankets for the piece “Dwelling”…

the big white square is the base on which the blankets will be stacked…

another piece in the show is “Engine” and that is taking shape too…

which will look like this when it’s all done

Stay tuned…I’ll make a progress report tomorrow…

“Dwelling”…Day 2

11 Wednesday Jan 2012

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We were back at it today…our intrepid little band of volunteers… (Irene on the left, Cyndy in the center, Sharon on the right, Martha stepped out for a phone call…Melinda was pinning out front)…trying to add more blankets to Marie Watt’s stash for the piece “Dwelling” to be in her upcoming show…

Interesting facts we learned today…wool is naturally fire retardant and doesn’t need to be treated (hence wool upholstery in airplanes, etc…)  the blankets we are working on are 80% wool, 20% man-made, which a nice lady who raises sheep stopped by and told us is a pretty high wool-to-synthetic ratio.  When all the blankets are stacked

the weight load will probably be upward of 3000 pounds…no surprise to some of us who manhandled quite a few blankets today…

Given our small but focused crew we felt like we did pretty well…

4 boxes delivered back to the museum…

and tomorrow we think will be our last day working at Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest, and we’re concentrating on red…we start at 9:30…come on down…