So we've got people here setting up like that and we'll move the table out a little bit.
Hanging art, arranging plates, silverware, that type of thing.
Sometimes people are inspired by a piece of art and create a whole scene.
Right now we're preparing for the Art of Table Settings here at the Royal West Art Museum.
We are debuting the Art of Table Settings and it is in its 51st year.
The table settings are, each one is unique and different and amazing.
We just love it. It's fun to take a piece of art and bring it down to the table.
I just love the exhibit that it's such an interesting concept and I love that they involve the community in it.
Anybody can enter.
We're very thankful that this community and that means you have supported us all of these years.
And they let us use their art.
Art of Table Settings is an exhibit where people come in and create a beautiful table scape based on a work of art.
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.
The Ruth West was just an incredible collector, a voracious collector.
We have about 3,000 works in the collection.
It's a great introduction to look at our collection in a different way.
This makes people see a lot of the different artwork that the museum has and what people have put together in their interpretation.
And then design a table that would incorporate the feel and the colors in the sense of the piece of our work.
We have done this for several years.
We seem to be addicted to this one artist, Schumer Lickner, and he does a lot of things with cows.
And I don't know why we're attracted to that, but we find it challenging.
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.
I love this idea that she brought this popular culture into the museum and combined it with fine art, cutting edge abstract expressionism.
Unfortunately, the story that she bought this just to do a table setting is not true, but we can still talk about it.
Art museums are uniquely positioned to bring beauty into our lives.
And there's something really intimate and unforgettable about table settings and how we gather together for museums.
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.
Thank you.