Soul! exhibit invades C-bus

Soul! exhibit invades C-bus

What sets this exhibition apart from others that you've overseen in the past?
A lot. We are not doing ["Soul!"] by genre, by artist, and not chronologically. Those are three very common ways to organize exhibits like this. The fact that we went at it from a motivational point of view is brand new. We're also spending a lot of time in our programming helping people find ways to access the art intellectually as well as physically. One of the things we've added here is a 1000-square-foot studio space. We thought if the experience was going in and looking it at the artwork from the perspective of, "Why did somebody create that?," we are hoping that it will trigger feelings in people to have a need to do that. We'll have an opportunity right there to come over and experiment with that in the studio. That's brand new. I've not been part of an exhibit before where we've had the creative process indulged as part of a visit.

I would also say the involvement of our community advisor group. As I mentioned before, this has been an exhibition that has gone from being very modest in the beginning to a project. That's due to their involvement. They have connected us to communities and artists around the state we could have only dreamed about before.