Me and Kenyatta went to Far-ra-go today and we met with Corinne Galla who is the owner of the place. This is what the gallery looks from the outside. It is located at the heart of Newnan's square and there seems to be plenty of parking on both sides of the road. It is in a one way street.
The gallery space is on the top floor.
The entrance of the place is towards the right. The stairs bring you inmediatly to the hallway were our work would displayed.
This is the hallway. It is approximately 30-40 ft long. The width concerned us since it is only 44 in wide.
The side on the right is made of bricks that has been covered with plaster. The side on the left is regular dry wall. Either way nails would work for both sides. The side on the right has one "dummy" door which used to be a connection path to the other side of the building but that has been closed off. On that wall we only loose the size of the door which is less than 4 ft.
The left side of the hall contains a total of 4 doors. One is located right as you enter the place to the left which leads to the reception area. The next door leads to the other room.
This room we only have available one wall of 15-16 ft. long and a side of about 5 ft.
Corinne did state that she would move the art work from the walls that we would be using which is the hallway and the walls mentioned previously. The rest of the work will still be hung up. Our reception area is her main studio in which most of her work is located. She made it clear that her work would stay on the walls. There is a table provided to us but it is not too long for beverages and food. We did ask if we wanted to bring tables, Corinne said it would not be a problem.
As far as the rest there is a kitchen that is located almost at the end of the hallway.
Corinne did state that she would move the art work from the walls that we would be using which is the hallway and the walls mentioned previously. The rest of the work will still be hung up. Our reception area is her main studio in which most of her work is located. She made it clear that her work would stay on the walls. There is a table provided to us but it is not too long for beverages and food. We did ask if we wanted to bring tables, Corinne said it would not be a problem.
As far as the rest there is a kitchen that is located almost at the end of the hallway.
At the end of the hallway turn left, then turn right and the bathroom would be there. Oh and not that it matters but the bathroom has a shower in it too lol.
For tuesday we will have a floor plan of the place but I don't think we can give an idea of who would go where since we don't know the scale people were thinking of working on. Since the space we have is not as big as we had imagined originally, it limits the size of our pieces and the amount of pieces that we can put in. Unfortunatly we have 8 people exhibiting work and this makes the space pretty small. We did hear from some people who were interested in working in a grid system so that would work for the hallway space since height wise we do have room to work with. Due to the width of the hallway being 44 in. we can't hang anything too high up or too low because our audience will not be able to appreciate it. So please tell me what you think about the space and if you have any ideas on how to display the work.
It is sort of a shame though, if there was more of the space to use it really could be a swell little gallery. But no knowing her whole story of what is going on there it is unfortunate it wasn't able to work. Ah well!
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