This was a really busy last week, but my time at Waterfall Arts has taught me so much about art and how it affects small communities like this one. I sat in the gallery nearly every time I went in this week, and I got to talk to some of the visitors and observe a class of 4th/5th graders talk about their favorite pieces of art in the show. It's really amazing to get to see how much this community surrounds itself with art and takes part in things that Waterfall provides for everyone. It's kind of sad to think I won't be coming back, but I hope that I can get chances in the future to come back and see how this little community has morphed around the wonderful world of art.
As my time at Waterfall is nearing the end, I've been trying to get artist interviews finalized and ready to be posted in the blog. I got to meet with another of the artists in person, Gianne, and I was also assigned another artist to try and interview, Tom Ventura. I haven't heard back much from other artists, though Mary Faith is really excited to meet me in person if we can ever find a good time! I also was upset that for the Bread & Puppet event last Friday I was too sick to go out and attend, so I not only lost a good opportunity for hours, I lost an opportunity to interact with community members and see how much this event is enjoyed by so many. Though I missed out on this, I've been sitting in the gallery mostly, and that's a good time to get to talk to people that come in to look at the art.
This is an exciting and busy week for Waterfall Arts as they prepare for one of their bigger events, Bread & Puppet, coming up this Friday 4/26. I've been given a lot of paperwork that the office needs entered in spreadsheets to keep track of all their records for things like scholarship applications and class evaluation sheets. This paperwork is a really nice task to have because I can take it back to Unity with me and enter the data from there as well. Things are starting to get a lot more busy with the semester coming to an end, but my projects at Waterfall are coming along still (though it is a slow process).
This week I got some more interview questions answered by artists, though I'm still waiting for more replies and more chances to meet with the others (or hopefully run into them around the building). The information for the summer classes is almost finished being entered! I am also looking forward to an event that's happening next Friday called Bread & Puppet. It's supposed to be a really good show according to many locals that I spoke to about it as I went around town putting up flyers for the event. It'll be a good opportunity for more hours in addition to communicating with the public, photographing, and event set-up. This will be my first time seeing this event as well, so I can't wait!
This was a slow week at Waterfall, I'm mostly waiting for more interviews to be scheduled to happen so I sent follow up emails to all the artists. Most of this week was spent doing some office tasks and trying to meet up with artists/gathering info for the upcoming website. I continued to enter information on summer classes for the website as that info is still being updated and finalized.
This was a pretty good week back at Waterfall Arts. I worked on getting all the info for the upcoming summer classes organized and formatted for the website. I got to meet with Ando Anderson and complete our interview for the blog, so next week I might begin to post in the WA blog. On Friday the 6th, I was introduced to two residents of the Waterfall Arts building who also have a boat that they live on. Meg would like me to interview them as well for the blog, and I can't wait because they are really interesting people and fun to talk to! The open-call event "Oceans" opened that night as well, and I took photos of the event and counted attendance. I also ran into Maxwell Nolin, one of the artists I'm going to interview. He had a beautiful piece in the show, and we connected about the interview and had a nice conversation. All in all, it was an eventful week, and the next one is going to bring more interviews and blog work.
The past two weeks have been spring break, and I couldn't stick around in Maine, otherwise I would have stayed and kept going into Waterfall Arts. However, I did get to make follow-up emails to board members and local artists for the interviews. I got responses the next day and was able to work out times to meet with some of the artists, as well as get some interview questions answered via email, though we still want to meet in person. I was also introduced to the next project that can be done from my own computer: organizing/adding information on the summer classes at WA to be put into the website format. I was also told that there is an event coming up April 6th, which I will happily help out with to get some more experience and hours! Now that I'm back, I look forward to spending more time completing my projects and meeting new artists.
I didn't get to make it in to Waterfall much this week, but on Monday I went in and did some filing/organizing of a bunch of posters and postcards from past events. I talked with Meg about what to do over spring break since I was going home. Updates are being made to the WA website, and I will be getting access to a google doc soon that will allow me to put in information on upcoming classes at WA onto the website format. I also intend on making some follow up emails to the artists I will be interviewing and the board members, as I only have two photos and one bio for the website right now. Hopefully I can fit a lot of hours in over break!
This week was pretty mellow, I'm slowly getting email responses from board members and I might be taking a few of their bio photos. I still haven't heard from Maxwell Nolin, but I went ahead and emailed two other Waterfall artists, Ando and Lisa. I have questions made up for them that I included in their email. I started gallery sitting today, if anyone comes in to look at the art I take a tally for the day. Looking forward to doing these interviews soon!
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