Busy Weeks for Busy Bees

This week consisted of the present transition from our old exhibitions to the new ones for our Spring/Summer display. We will be featuring pastel works by Debbie Robinson and direct our Focus gallery now onto the new prints by Jon Colburn called Endangered Species. We will also include many works from the Watercolor Society of Oregon in the Bush Barn during this sunny season. 

On my arrival on Monday, parents and teachers were coming in and out picking up their child's artwork from the previous showcase. Catherine just got back in time for the chaotic atmosphere of exhibition transition and I helped her prepare her slideshow for her upcoming lecture on the History of Watercolor. I set up a Power Point presentation and gathered informational text and beautiful examples of watercolor works throughout time. After preparing the start of her lecture slides, I then looked at the templates on the InDesign program for the vinyl lettering I once stuck to the wall in the last focus show. Changing the lettering, I then got to browse around on dafonts.com and explore the world of many creative fonts. I had fun trying to match fonts with the styles of the upcoming art shows and playing with fonts in general. I then finished up the day wandering around Willamette University's campus on the sunny day finishing my distribution route for Radius 25 posters. I took five more and walked to a few popular buildings and hung them up hoping they reach out to the aspiring college students like myself.

Combining my usual two posts of the week, I was only at the Barn for a little over an hour on Wednesday due to busy future planning with PSU representatives as I was setting up my future degree in Art History. 
I then walked in and smelled the heavy paint fumes from upstairs as some helpful volunteers were re painting the upstairs a new shade of white up overlap the prior marks from the last display. I did some simple tasks with the gallery walk through with cleaning as well as changing burnt out light bulbs and re tagging some jewelry in our gift gallery. I then shadowed Catherine on editing a member donation card with picture editing, text aligning, and the many parts of complicated computer programming. We looked at that as well as letter editing as it is important that everything SAA does is clean, unified, and neat as it represents our organization and promotes more money flow in this amazing non-profit organization. 

Here is a picture of my intern computer at the front desk of the Bush Barn.