Hardy Gallery Community Mosaic Project Book Signing a Success! Written on August 23, 2010, by mripp.
We wanted to share a few photos with our Hardy Gallery supporters from our Community Mosaic Project Book Signing & Release Party event, which we held at the Gallery on Thursday, August 12. It was a wonderful celebration that was very well-attended, despite the crazy amount of humidity that made the Gallery feel very sauna-esque!
When Beth and I conceived of this project this past December, we didn’t realize how challenging — and ultimately, rewarding the process of publishing a book was going to be. There are so many steps to publishing a book on your own, especially one like the Community Mosaic Project book: trying to map out the concept of the book, finding a publisher that can work within your budget and the project’s parameters, finding a graphic designer that understands the look you’re going for (our graphic designer, Renee, is really a saint — she and her assistant edited the over 650 artist images that are in the book), going through countless revisions to make sure that everything is just right, and — the scariest part — uploading all of the pages to the printer and hoping that everything comes out correctly. It’s stressful, to be sure — but all of that stress was totally worth it the minute I broke open one of the boxes of our book shipment and saw the bright green covers of our books. There’s something tangible about a project like this — and I love that people are responding well to the book and taking the book back to their own communities for ideas.
Anyway, back to the Book Signing Event on the 12th. Everyone there was SO excited to finally get a look at the book, and the event itself was a laid-back one. I wanted to create an event where everyone actally looked at the book and looked for their own artwork, the artwork of their friends, etc. I thought back to when I was in high school, and our small classes would assemble in the cafeteria to obtain our yearbooks at the end of the year and have our friends sign them, and how much fun that was. So, I thought that the Hardy’s book signing could operate in much the same way. Below are a few photos from the event…as you can see, everyone was happily penning their names next to their respective works in the book — which is exactly what the event was intended for!
The Book Signing participants had a lot of fun penning their names next to their respective works!
Barb Kenyon and Donna Lindboe Trupin, two of the 2008 and 2009 Mosaic Project participants, share a conversation at the event.
Taylor Chomeau, who was three when she made a canvas for the 2008 Community Mosaic Project, was our youngest (and cutest!) "autographer"...
Artist Gale Ritchey, Hardy Gallery Board Member Pam Lecy, and artists Donna Lindboe Trupin, Nancy Rafal, and VInni Chomeau look to be having a great time at the event!
The best reward for the Hardy Gallery staff -- seeing this HUGE pile of bright green Community Mosaic Project books!
Hardy Gallery Board President Peggy Lott gets a first look at the book, along with Ephraim Village Library librarian Linda Malmgren.
Now that the book is here, we’re working hard to get the books into hands of participants and Hardy Gallery supporters. The #1 question we’re getting right now is, “Will there be a book of the 2010 Project?” We would LOVE to do a book of the next two years of the Project (2010 & the upcoming 2011 project), but right now, we’re waiting to see how well-received the 2008 & 2009 book is before we make any decisions. The response to the book has been overwhelming and we’re hoping that response continues!
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