I have settled into the routine at the CCC (Chapman Cultural Center) and SAM. I have briefly met the staff and most of the students that routinely come to the program and have toured the entire facility in downtown Spartanburg. I look forward to meeting the instructors and students at the outreach locations and am excited to get to know the everyone on a personal level. My first week with them was extremely enjoyable and I cannot wait for what is to come. I also had the chance to personally speak with Karl Hollander, the executive director and Scott Cunningham, the associate director. I briefly got to pick Karl's brain about the museum, its programs, and the Post Secret exhibition (more information below).
The Post Secret Exhibition
In 2004, Frank Warren handed out postcards to strangers. He invited people to write down a secret anonymously and mail it to him. Each secret had to be true and something that had never been shared with another person. After the first exhibition closed, word of the project spread. People began crafting their own homemade postcards and the artful secrets began arriving from every continent. Today, Warren has received more than 150,000 postcards and they continue to come at a rate of about 1,000 per week. The PostSecret exhibition features more than 400 postcards that bring together the most powerful, poignant, and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received. (http://www.spartanburgartmuseum.org/Exhibitions/Calendar/2010.htm#postsecret)
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