An Unexpected Trip

Returning to the Artists Archives after a slow two days I was ready to see what else I could do. Firstly, I needed to finish calling all of the people on the surprisingly lengthy list of possible attendants. Chipping away at the list, artists were coming in and out of the office to drop off their pieces for the upcoming exhibition. After finally finishing making those calls, I was put to work assembling the labels that I laid out the day before. In the middle of this job, I was called by my sponsor, Ken Goerg, to come with him and one of the archived artists downtown in order to pick up some of the art from the Charter One Global Enterprise Center. As it turns out, the artist that Ken and I accompanied was George Roby, a former Hawken teacher. On the way downtown, he talked about his time there, and asked me if any teachers he knew were still teaching. Going into the Charter One building, we quickly removed all of the sculptures and paintings that the building didn’t want any more, nails and all. The only problem was finding a way to put the pieces in the van in a way that wouldn’t end in disaster. A few cushions and curses later, the art was securely on board, giving us our cue to return to the Archives. While assisting in putting the pieces in their correct places in the archive of the Archives, I considered how much more of an improvement this was over calling people only to say the same thing.