Chilbo Museum Notes
Earlier this year Fleep asked me to take over curating the Chilbo Museum. Having no idea what that meant, I said “Okay” then realized I had to learn how to find artists to exhibit at the Museum and learn how to promote the exhibits. I called on a couple of old acquaintances, Carl Metropolitan and Scarp Godenot, for the first two exhibits.
Currently Scarp Godenot’s Flower Worlds is on exhibit through December 28, 2008. During the month of November, aside from Chilbo and Chilbo Connect members, there were over 130 visitors to Chilbo Museum. I have no idea if that is a “good” number, but getting some exposure for Chilbo seems a good thing to me. Scarp reported that he has had some sales from the exhibit, so there has been a bit of benefit for him also.
On December 6, Scarp held a workshop on creating atistic images using a flatbed scanner, the technique he uses for the images in the current exhibit.
The turnout was fairly good and Fleep blew the crowd away by producing a scanned image and uploading it as the workshop was in progress. She has promised a future blog post on her artistic adventure, so we will look forward to that.
For the future, I anticipate the next exhibit will be by Misprint Thursday and open some time in January. After that, the calendar is open. If you or someone you know would be interested in exhibiting at Chilbo Museum, please feel free to contact me. I am open to any suggestions, but these are what I would consider “bonus” points:
1. A Chilbo or Chilbo Connect Group member
2. Little or no previous experience exhibiting in Second Life
I did have one person contact me and I thought I had written her name down correctly, Odessa Oliphone. But when I went to Search for her later, no Odessa. Odessa, if you are out there reading this, please don’t think too poorly of me, get in touch and let’s take a look at what you would like to exhibit.
- Corcosman Voom
