By Sage Lewis
Assistant Curator

Installation art, or large-scale sculptural works, are always an adventure to create. For that reason, the past three days have been especially exciting ones in the Museum’s Great Hall. Maine artist, Anna Hepler, has been working each day to install her site-specific piece underneath one of the skylights, 22 feet above the floor. She arrived Monday morning with her two assistants, Jenna and Nate, and they got to work unloading and organizing the plastic nets they’d been sewing during the previous weeks. After much work up and down on the scissor lift attaching nets, the interior blue net that hangs down in a parabola shape was completed by the end of the day on Tuesday. Today is Wednesday, and the crew is now working on the exterior net of white and translucent plastic. Tonight and Thursday nights, the crew will work late, to make sure everything can be finished on Friday.

Stay tuned for more updates on Anna Hepler’s solo exhibition Makeshift. Next week, we’ll move the installation crew to the 4th floor to build another site-specific plastic sculpture.