From Abstracts to Tintypes: Passing the Brush to Margaret Muza
On March 24, Pamela Anderson revealed her collection of art produced during her residency at The Pfister. The Pop-Up Gallery was alive with color and conversation before the pièce de résistance, the unveiling of her Legacy piece, which will soon grace the hallway next to the legacies of the former AIRs: Reginald Baylor, Katie Musolff, Shelby […]
PHOTO ESSAY: Get Inside Yourself by Getting Inside the Box
Come on in. The door is open. Make your Self at home. Don’t be shy. There aren’t any rules. Lounge. Relax. Write. Doodle. And share a part of your Self on the walls. This project is a metaphor for that inner place we go to when we take creative risks. It also represents the playful […]
Getting HAPPY at The Pfister: A Story of Loss and Recovery
Suggestion: Turn up the volume on your device, click play, and prepare to get happy! One of the many privileges of being human is that we experience emotions. While some might argue that other creatures express emotions, too, or that it’s not much of a privilege that we have to experience the painful ones, no […]
Gallery Night: Interpreting the Textures in Our Lives
It is what it is. Perception. It is what it is not. Metaphor. My mother used to like to recount how one day in preschool, a classmate approached me and asked me, “What are you?” Yes, “what” not “who.” As my mother and teacher eavesdropped, I’m told that I (and this is all my mother, […]
COMING SOON! A SPECIAL RETIREMENT TONIGHT, PLUS THE TEXTURES OF GALLERY NIGHT . . .
STAY TUNED! Rocman “Roc” Whitesell retires from The Pfister Hotel tonight at 10:00 pm after 18 years of service as Concierge. I got a chance to talk to him a few hours before he hung up his uniform. Roc affirmed in my a belief in and celebration of ignorance–there is so much that we don’t know […]
Synergy: Performance, Art, & Service (Parts I & II)
Synergy. I know it when I see it, or hear it, or feel it. But when it does, sometimes it takes me a few days to make sense of it. That’s why I’m only just publishing this synergy between three positive events that I attended last Wednesday and Thursday. There are great things happening in […]