jeremy tessmer | curator & designer

Last night, the Gallery got a few choice seats at the Music Academy of the West’s annual fundraiser at the Fess Parker Hotel.  It was such an exclusive event.  We were among the few, the chosen, the four-hundred ninety-seven…

The music was fantastic and the crowd responded enthusiastically with generous gifts to the Academy.  (Frank Goss put the Master in Master of Ceremonies as auctioneer of five special items.)   It was a grand, grand evening.  One party-goer said that it was, “the last great hurrah of the season.”  (Won’t Santa Barbarans be interested to find out that we have more than one season?)

Here, we see the effects of wine on hand-held photography.  Susan is so glamorous.  I am so shiny. We are both so blurry. That’s how you know that people were having fun.  There are never any sharp, well-lit pictures at good parties…