Color swatches, catalog open to a featured quilt, and the gallery model.

Preparations for the design of an exhibition begin many months, sometimes years, in advance of installation. For us at the Milwaukee Art Museum, planning for the placement of art in our main exhibition begins the minute the previous exhibition opens. For instance, when Street Seen opened in January, the next week the exhibition designer removed little to-scale black and white photographs from the gallery model, and our team went to work carefully placing pictures of miniature quilts for the summer’s American Quilts: Selections from the Winterthur Collection exhibition.

Small swatches of color throughout the model represent wall colors.

This week, I met with my co-curator Catherine Sawinski, the Museum’s exhibition designer John Irion, and our graphic designer Brenda Neigbauerfacts here are that E. M. Currin died intestate in April 1962, leaving surviving him a number of heirs. All of the heirs, by a paper writing dated October 11, 1962, agreed to a stated division of a farm owned by Currin at the time of his death, including the allocation of certain of this land in Harnett County to Edna Currin Pepoon, one of the heirs. They further agreed that all of the crop allotments assigned to Currin's farm would be allocated to three named heirs, excluding Edna Currin Pepoon. Thus, under the agreement to which Edna Currin Pepoon was a party, the land which she inherited from the Currin Estate was to have no crop allotments. This agreement was made pursuant to ASCS Regulations § 719.10(d),