From Christine, the new Intern

I'm Christine Kelley and about a week ago I started working as an Intern for the Delavan Art Gallery. I'm currently a Senior at Syracuse University enrolled in VPA as a Photography Major. In the recent past I had work in the Everson Biennial and hope to graduate from SU and be able to make a career as a practicing artist. Also noteworthy to be mentioned is that another Intern was hired to work at the Delavan, Terez Iacovino. She is also a Senior at Syracuse University and is majoring in Printmaking. Since we are both graduating in the spring we are currently working on our BFA shows and are hoping to be able to exhibit our work together sometime in
April.

Its always a pleasure for me to be able to go to different galleries and get to know new artists and look at their work. I'm always interested in seeing other artist's work and understanding the ideas that inspired it. Since I have been here things have been a little busy. On my first day working not only was the current exhibition hung, but also lit, something that takes a great amount of time and work. Needless to say it was a great day for an intern to start. The chance to be able to help accomplish these tasks is something that every intern is looking for when they're applying for internships.

This past week we had the opening for "Five Years at Delavan". The exhibition includes two sculptors and four printmakers. It was a great night. The artists were able to attend the opening and had the chance to speak with many of the viewers. There were always people at the show and never a dull moment. Even towards the end of the opening when the gallery was beginning to close there were still several people meandering about looking at the work. The Delavan is an excellent space to be able to really meet and speak with the artists. Its a much more personal space than many other galleries that I've been too, and it really enables there to be a one on one experience with the artists.

Donald Sottile, one of the two sculptors showing, was one of the artists that I was able to chat with during the opening. His work has been shown all over the country and to be able to meet him and talk to him about his work was a wonderful opportunity. I was also able to speak to C. J. Hodge, the artist currently showing in the Wildcard area. Both artists were very interesting to talk to and obviously very passionate about their work. C. J. Hodge will also be at Th3 this coming Thursday. One of the interesting things that he did was to make miniature paintings, maybe 2" x 3" and pass them out at the opening with his business card on the back. He's a great artist to be able to meet with and always has very interesting things to say about his own work and other exhibiting artists. I'm looking forward to being able to go to Th3 on Thursday and get a new group of people into the gallery to look at the current exhibition.