Things have started to finally get back into full swing at the Pratt Art History office. This entire week, wide-eyed freshmen have been milling about and getting lost on campus. Slowly, new and returning faculty have been coming in, printing out their syllabi and lamenting over the quick end of summer.
Today was our faculty meeting and our reception for newly accepted graduate students. As with the reception for last spring’s awards ceremony, I was put on decoration detail and, let me tell you, I tend to go a little overboard. It’s pretty much my favorite thing to do because it gives me a chance to become Mr. Max Martha Stewart. For the past week or so, I’ve been collecting inspiration images from the internet and keeping them on a folder on my desktop.
The reception was to be held in one of Pratt’s various gallery spaces and, in order to play off of the stark whiteness of the room, I decided it might be fun to work with decorations that were entirely white. I ordered 40 white balloons from Party City which were allowed to float up to the ceiling, their ghostly ribbons hanging freely to the ground. I took a tip from Martha Stewart herself and used round mailing labels and thread to create some rather charming garland which I draped off of the tables and the entranceway to the room. Lastly, I created a welcome sign by cutting out oversized text from construction paper.
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LOVE IT!!!!!!