Looking Back, Looking Forward
January 5th, 2010Happy New Year everyone! We’re officially back in full swing, with lots of new projects buzzing in the air. But I thought before we dive into 2010, we should take a little look back at ol’ 2009. It was a busy year for the Pulitzer. We read Ovid for 2 days, rapped about St. Sebastian, built a wall out of garbage, opened a new exhibition, and added a few staff members along the way.
Here are a few of the highlights:
In addition to our continuing concert, film, and symposia programs, our community activities really blossomed in 2009. Former prisoners re-interpreting art with theatre in Staging Old Masters and a collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Association and Cole Elementary in Let’s Look. We also saw our Main Gallery filled with individuals from across St. Louis to read Ovid’s Metamorphoses for two days. A major focus of our activities, our programming only promises to increase in 2010 as Transformation gets underway.
We closed Old Masters in 2009 and began the installation for Urban Alchemy: Gordon Matta-Clark. From our first guerilla marketing campaign, to the installation of Bingo and the construction of Garbage Wall, seeing this exhibition in our galleries and hearing feedback from our visitors on how they see it relating to their city has been inspiring.
And we can’t leave out the blog, of course, where we’ve launched a number of new video series, aimed at giving you an even more varied look at what’s happening around here. We feature architectural and facilities details in “The Ando Building,” the perspective of our gallery attendants in “From the Galleries,” updates from the various departments in “What’s Happening, (fill-in-the-blank),” and a monthly update from Matthias in “From the Director.” Expect much more to come in 2010. We’re also proud to be a part of another collaborative blog, Saint Louis Art Map, where we’ve recently launched yet another video series called “Catching Up” (hmm, I’m noticing a trend…).
What was your favorite memory at the Pulitzer in 2009? And what would you like to see from us in 2010?
