Museum Triple Play

Between the morning of Wednesday, June 10 and Thursday, June 11, Jill and I visited three museums and had one very productive lunch meeting.

The morning of the 10th started with a visit to the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University. We had a 9:00 meeting scheduled with Gloria to look at the works in the collection. The Brauer is a hour drive from South Bend where we were staying. So after dragging ourselves out of bed, grabbing breakfast and coffee for the drive, we headed to Valparaiso and arrived 5 minutes after 9:00. Unfortunately, I forgot that the very northwestern section of Indiana follows Central time so we actually were an hour early. Not too big of a deal, except we had a meeting scheduled for 11:45 back in South Bend.

So, Jill and I went to the nearest Starbuck's to get in a bit more research before our "9:00" meeting. Gloria was great and managed to get us through everything in record time. As always, the Brauer is a wonderful institution to work with.

Next stop was K's where we met with Dean, Michael and Charlie to discuss the exhibition, brainstorm ideas, and determine where to go to view more works. (We actually beat everyone there.) In case none of you have been to South Bend, K's is a hot dog joint that is not fancy as far as atmosphere, but has great food and awesome chocolate chip cookies. But I digress...the conversation was so intense that Jill decided to sit there and absorb all the information. After two hours, I had four pages of notes, and many more possibilities.

Our last visit Tuesday was at the South Bend Museum of Art. We met with Kim and again looked at possible works for inclusion in the exhibit. Unfortunately, there were not too many works by artists on our list, but as usual, Kim was very helpful and gracious.

On Wednesday morning we had an appointment with Ann and Robert at the Snite Museum of Art at Notre Dame. All I can say is that the Higgins paintings were phenomenal. It was an enjoyable morning catching up with everyone and looking through the collections.