Once the show is done, the show is taken down, most of the product is given away to my volunteers. They're allowed to come in as a thank you for helping us out. The rest is given to a couple of community organizations that use them around the neighborhoods to plant up in the corner gardens that you'll see around the city, and then some of it does get composted. What we do find is that the neighborhood knows when I compost, because once they're in the compost bins, it seems people come by and pick up bulbs for free. Not a problem. I'm glad people are using them. Once the show's done, we now have to clean up the mess. That's over 2,500 pots that need to be scraped and cleaned, washed and sterilized, to be ready for the following show. So the show basically goes on from June to June. During the rainy days during the summer, we're washing the pots, we're getting things ready. So it is a year end, year round endeavor for the Eastman House to put this show on for you.

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Interview conducted by James McQuaid, February 1, 1977.

This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Photo: Abraham Aronow (American, b. 1940). "Brett Weston," ca. 1988. Courtesy of Department of Photography/George Eastman Museum. Gift of the photographer.

The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this audio do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Library Sciences or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Silver Voices: Brett Weston Interview (Feb. 2, 1977)[Part 2]

Interview conducted by James McQuaid and Carole Kismaric, April 17-21, 1978.

Introduction by Meghan L Jordan, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography, George Eastman Museum. Recorded October 2022.

This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Photo: Bernard Gotfryd (American, 1924–2016). "André Kertész," January 26, 1983. Courtesy of Department of Photography/George Eastman Museum.

The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this audio do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Library Sciences or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Generous support for the introduction provided by Art Bridges, and made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES.

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Silver Voices: André Kertész Interview(1978), Introduction by Meghan L. Jordan

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