We have a history of showing area artists in small solo shows. At the same time we are not going to show everybody. We want to offer the best that our region has in it. What's also helpful is to do studio visits with artists and talk to them about their work. You can determine fairly quickly during a studio visit what type of involvement an artist has with their work, where they are heading, and what they are thinking.
Video art takes a certain commitment from people.
You have to spend time with it, unless it is very grabbing. I was at the Venice Biennial last summer, and some of the best works were video projections, which did not make huge demands on your time, and the work had a narrative flow that you could enter into very easily. I think these are some key elements in having video reach a wide audience. We have an exhibit up of digital imagery by Frank Gillette. He was known during the 1970's through the 1980's as a video artist, and then began working with computer imagery during the 1990's.