last-day-of-June update

Hello Faithful Blog Readers!
Another month is ending and a long weekend is approaching. And now for the report!
Sixteen people came out for the lecture on June 22 at the Old Sydney Society headquarters at the Lyceum. The next lecture will be given Friday July 7 at 7:30 pm, same place. We had a nice opening last Friday for Cape Breton Scenes with about 25 people in attendance. I wasn't too disappointed, considering that prom and graduation season was in full swing and it was a wonderful summer evening. I will be disappointed, though, if there aren't many folks through the doors this summer. This is an exhibition that everyone should see and will enjoy. So bring the out-of-town visitors to the Art Gallery and come to escape in Cape Breton Scenes.
I can't remember if i've given you the lowdown about the new staffers in the Art Gallery this summer and the projects we're working on so i'll fill you in. Saul MacNeil, who has been a volunteer and art gallery assistant, is now the Junior Registrar at the Gallery, thanks to a Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations grant. He's conducting the annual inventory of the permanent collection, updating producing the annual permanent collection catalogue, and generally being an asset to the Art Gallery. Kevin Lionais is working with us as Collection Photographer. He's been digitally documenting the permanent collection, so far accompanying Saul throughout the university, and will soon have his own "studio" set up in the Art Gallery. The long term goal of this digitization project is to have images of the collection searchable through new collections management software and then, on the Art Gallery website. Long term maybe, but we're getting there! Christina Adamko is volunteering with us for the summer and is currently recording the reading room's exhibition catalogues. Shirley Dubinsky and Sharon Columbus are continuing their volunteering over the summer months and are working to get the reading room ready for cataloguing and compiling a list of addresses of the artists whose work is in our permanent collection, respectively.
Well, i think that's my update for today. Wishing you all a fun long weekend.
Suzanne