Our exhibit at the Claude Moore Park Recreation Center will start soon! The new date will be the first week in November. Once volunteers have signed up to hang, then they will get to choose the specific day. Members will need to bring their images at the specified time to hang them. They MUST have eyelet screws or a VERY WELL ATTACHED device that acts like an eyelet screw. Neilsen frames tend to have these well attached. Note, the ones that just simply clip in will not work very well. Not only are they hard to hang, but all the weight of the frame will be on those little pieces and if they fall out, your frame will come crashing to the floor. Sawtooth hangers will NOT work. This is not because of any sort of silliness on my part, as it took me a long time to figure out how to put eyelet screws in (all my frames come with sawtooth hangers). This is purely out of necessity for how they will be hung.
Basically, CMPRC will attach a firm wire to the brick/cement wall. This creates, well, think of it as a curtain rod. This “curtain rod” is placed high so that works of varying sizes can be accomodated. Then “S” hooks are slipped onto this “curtain rod”. This allows the artist to adjust the work to the height they want. So that art does not “swing”, we use two wires to hang them. What has worked superbly in the past is fishing wire. This way the hanging mechanism blends into the wall. So, fishing wire is tied onto the S hooks, then hangs down to each frame, where it is connected to the eyelet screws or similar. Sawtooth hangers will not work because there is usually only one and because it will cut thru the wire over time. Note that the entire weight of the frame is on these eyelet screws, so they must be attached securely. The fishing wire will be hooked via one of two methods, shown in the diagram below. You can also see Bob’s diagram and images of the display space below the diagram.
