Generosity of spirit at Nadav’s reception
Around a hundred people gathered together with the Obama portraits at the Artists Reception for Nadav on Thursday 14 May. I can honestly say that everyone was smiling for most of the time and I have never before enjoyed such generosity of spirit between so many different people. Lorna-Mary hosted Cllr Ray Hassall and Director of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery – Rita McLean, for their welcoming speeches. I had the honour of introducing Matthew Flowers and Nadav Kander and then I went on for a bit about the collective will behind this project. More than any other project I’ve ever worked on, there has been an enthusiastic and growing support from a broad range of people, all wishing us well. To be amidst that sort of energy has been the driving force behind the success of the show, which is packed out everyday, with people going into the Marketing Birmingham Information office at the Rotunda, asking for Obama flyers and the way to the Museum and Art Gallery. Everyday we have notes or calls about the show. The sponsors, partners and individual patrons were all there, along with all those people who willed this to happen. And my Mom and Dad, the Rhubarb, Flowers and Kander teams. It was magical. And then…..
