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So we've got people here setting up like that and we'll move the table out a little bit.

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Hanging art, arranging plates, silverware, that type of thing.

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Sometimes people are inspired by a piece of art and create a whole scene.

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Right now we're preparing for the Art of Table Settings here at the Royal West Art Museum.

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We are debuting the Art of Table Settings and it is in its 51st year.

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The table settings are, each one is unique and different and amazing.

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We just love it. It's fun to take a piece of art and bring it down to the table.

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I just love the exhibit that it's such an interesting concept and I love that they involve the community in it.

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Anybody can enter.

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We're very thankful that this community and that means you have supported us all of these years.

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And they let us use their art.

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Art of Table Settings is an exhibit where people come in and create a beautiful table scape based on a work of art.

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It was created by Mr. Ruth West who's behind me as a way of connecting artists, artisans and designers in the community with the collection of the Royal West Art Museum.

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The Ruth West was just an incredible collector, a voracious collector.

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We have about 3,000 works in the collection.

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It's a great introduction to look at our collection in a different way.

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This makes people see a lot of the different artwork that the museum has and what people have put together in their interpretation.

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And then design a table that would incorporate the feel and the colors in the sense of the piece of our work.

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We have done this for several years.

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We seem to be addicted to this one artist, Schumer Lickner, and he does a lot of things with cows.

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And I don't know why we're attracted to that, but we find it challenging.

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In 1980, Mrs. West did a table setting with this painting and it was disco themed, which is pretty exciting, pretty radical for Matt to walk in 1980.

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I love this idea that she brought this popular culture into the museum and combined it with fine art, cutting edge abstract expressionism.

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Unfortunately, the story that she bought this just to do a table setting is not true, but we can still talk about it.

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Art museums are uniquely positioned to bring beauty into our lives.

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And there's something really intimate and unforgettable about table settings and how we gather together for museums.

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And I love that we're taking these moments to celebrate the beauty that we can find not only in art, but in our everyday lives.

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Thank you.