This picture is from the Yale graphic design 2007 MFA show; Dan taught the class. The premise of the show was:

• Every student selects their own sites within the gallery for each project they want to show.
• Every site must somehow be right for that site’s project: the site must activate the project, or the project must help you see that location in the gallery in a new way.
• If necessary, adapt projects to work better with their locations.
• Be opportunistic, and in case an opportunity doesn’t present, at least be economical.

Every ledge became a bookshelf, corners and windows were in demand, pipes and ducts became display surfaces, Romy’s diagrams of electrical circuits became 3” tall and went next to all the outlets. Some nice side effects were:

• It was hard to tell if there was a show going on or not.
• There was very little centralized planning, just a big pinup map of the space and a lot of little discussions between people. Several students relocated their workstations to the gallery during the installation period.
• The best part of planning the show was walking through the gallery many times as a class, looking into corners for new opportunities.

The MFA painters said this was the best use of the gallery space they’d seen.

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