The Upstate Book Project Update

 

Well, here we are a year and four months later. The Upstate Book Project is finally upon us. Sixteen months of working lunches, endless hours of playing devil's advocate, explaining the rules, re-explaining the rules, marketing, planning, printing, building the website, communicating with the artists, explaining the project to numerous people (including the artists), emailing art outlets, printing flyers, leaving flyers, formatting, re-formatting, uploading, downloading, photographing, editing pictures and words, ordering, tracking, researching, designing, drawing, judging, sorting, filing, opening the bank account, processing payments, checking the PO box everyday (and begging them not to close my PO box because all of the submissions exceeded the size limit), printing and designing the business cards, distributing the business cards, and most of all pleading with the team not to kill me for including them. 

It has been one wonderful, exhausting project that turned out to be a fantastic voyage. We thought we were building a box. It was more like building the Hoover Dam. Whew! What a ride it has been. I would like to thank all the people and organizations that contributed to and supported such a complex project.

The exhibit goes up Monday, March 19th at The Showroom at Hub Bub in downtown Spartanburg and will run through Saturday, March 24th. Please join us for the reception Friday, March 23rd from 7-9pm. Please join us if you can. It WILL be worth your time. You can also order the book online now at Theupstatebookproject.com.