THE CODY CENTER LAITY LODGE
THE CODY CENTER

The Cody Center

The Cody Center is where my design work for Laity Lodge often moved closest to art-making itself. Working alongside guest curators and in close collaboration with longtime creative partners Gate Davis, Wendi Poole, Nate Clarke, and others, we designed, wrote and produced gallery guides, exhibition graphics, short films, event materials, and other interpretive pieces for a remarkable succession of artists.

Jimmy Abegg’s Obscured by Clouds and Michael Wilson’s Shirt for a Ghost were the first two exhibitions to launch after the Lodge reopened. It was then we landed on the format of the gallery guide and established an adaptable exhibition title-wall format that the Cody Center continues to use. Dana Tanamachi’s month-long residency, I Liked What I Saw, took the collaboration further: working on-site to build a site-specific installation, assisting Dana in the making itself, and gathering interviews for Box Canyon Journal carried the experience beyond the gallery. Curators Ginger Geyer and Meaghan Mitts, and guest curator Joshua Welker helped guests enter the work without getting between the art and its audience.

Other high points included Ordinary Saints—featuring Bruce Herman, Malcolm Guite, and J.A.C. Redford—and exhibition materials for Matt Kleberg, Daniel Domig, and Bruce Herman’s Glory in Ruins. Working at times directly with artists, curators, and the art itself remains one of the great privileges of my years designing for the Lodge.