Just a quick note and a few thank yous.
The Schmutz Lodge is so excited to house the Distillery 4 residents for this month and we really just have to take a moment to thank them (the artists), Rose Clancy (their curator for this show and a Distillery alum), and the people who have pledge to come out and support them!
We’ve never seen so many people anxious to come to the Lodge for an event before. It just goes to show what happens when you get so many quality folks together – you can really generate a huge draw. It’s really inspired us to think of future events through the lens of this show.
To see so many artists in this space working together, sharing ideas, collaborating, and learning from each other is something that I will never forget. I’ve never seen anything like this. The camaraderie and kinship that these artists are building is powerful and inspirational.
Who would have though that after they lost the studio space they were awarded that these amazing artists that they’d be able to pull off a show of this magnitude? I just looked at Facebook to see what we are up to as far as attendance and the attendance level is twice as high as anything we’ve done before. Add to that the fact that these artists have been reaching out to their friends and families that are not on Facebook along with handing out flyers at the Cultural District gallery crawl this past Friday and posting them around the city and we’re expecting to be inundated with people. That doesn’t happen just because they got the word out though. That happens because people are excited to see what these 8 artists and their curator have created. I’m just glad that I have been able to witness what they’re doing and feel thankful to have been allowed to be an observer and minor participant.
Who knows – maybe after all this is over we’ll start a residency program at the Lodge. What do you folks think?
