elanya

Warning - this is 90% a bragging post, so if that's going to piss you off, move on :V

For those of you who don't know, I work as an Assistant Collections Manager at the campus art gallery. My job is pretty awesome - there are slow days, and crazy days, and days where I sit in front of the computer all day, and days when I'm running all over campus (I'm in charge of the Campus Art Loan program), and days where I do really random other things.

We have just moved back into our actual gallery space - the building has been under renovation for three years (since well before I started work last August) and we are getting ready for the shows that are opening on Saturday as part of the building's reopening ceremony. Alas I'll be out of town at SAA, but today I got to help get stuff ready for our big show: the Allure of Fabergé.

I got to help with the unpacking of the pretties, the condition reporting of the pretties, and the putting of the pretties in their cases. It was a lot of pretties, and it was a long day, but very exciting! Let me tell you some highlights, since apparently we don't have much for online marketing that I can find (the best I can give is the facebook page).

Okay so, first of all we have this box:


And then we have the motherfucking JEWEL-ENCRUSTED DRAGON. Well, okay - it is a small statue of a lady holding a bowl, and the dragon is peering in to the bowl, and a pearl is hanging out of its mouth and also the lady is also covered in jewels and fancy tiny images of classical ladies and all in all it is amazing and beautiful but I fail at description. And, as noted, jewel-encrusted dragon.

We also have eggs, because its Fabergé. We have some really beautiful enameled ones, and some adorable tiny ones, and then we have one that is an egg that is really egg *cups* and one that is a tiny compact with a mirror and a powder compartment, and one that is jade(or jadeite, I forget) with silver wire lattice, and some that are hollow agate and beautifully translucent. And of course, jewel-encrusted. We have a belt, and a fan, and compass with little sea serpents and a bunch fo cigarette cases... Oh and a cigarette case with actual cigarettes inside it still, that allegedly were taken from the Tzar before he was arrested. Or before he was executed, one of the two... it a fun story either way, though completely unprovable :3

And so many more things! Anyway, today was long but all in all I frickin' love my job :D Anyone who is local should really come and see the show!