Developing an exhibition is always a team effort. From curators, security officers, and education team members to exhibition techs, frontline staff, and facilities techs, our staff knows how to get things done. Yet even with our decades of expertise, The de Young Open turned us on our heads.
While most art exhibitions take years to come together, The de Young Open was engineered in a matter of months. The truncated timeline was complicated even more as our teams worked in the midst of a global pandemic, a raging wildfire season, and on a day when the sky turned orange. On Zoom calls and behind face masks, every person on the team worked tirelessly to pull together the exhibition.
We wanted to spotlight a few of the many incredible teammates who worked so hard to make this exhibition a reality. Below they share the moments of joy, some inevitable frustrations, and all the pieces in between, behind the herculean effort to organize this unprecedented exhibition.
