Exhibiton Designer - Lou Storey
History
Birth
excelled in art in public school
BFA Pratt Institute - working in Art Galleries
Brooklyn Museum, Curate Brooklyn Abstract Artists exhibit for Museum, Earned MFA Pratt Institute, Gallery Manager, Exhibit Creator- New York Public Library - Design over 200 exhibitions
Began part-time Design business, Design Pollock-Krasner Studio - East Hampton; Designed Exhibition for Parrish Art Museum, Library of Congress, Museum of Financial History, America Crafts Museum, New York Historical Society, and Jewish Museum.
Won Heritage of Pride award for Stonewall at NYPL, design for American Foundation for the Blind, WNET Channel 13, and Ellis Island Museum
Design exhibitions for Hispanic Society, Dunnell Media Center, National Library of Medicine; for UK and NY celebration, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the International Junior League and the New York Public Library
Fashioned exhibitions for NJ Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee Art Museum, and with the Private Art Dealers Association; Created Non-Profit "Youseum" and began award nominations and web site

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2004 Professional

Recipient of the American Association of Museums 2004 award for Excellence in Design.

 

2005 Professional

Design three shows for the new Museum of Biblical Art. Design show for Yeshiva University Museum.

Work on two grants with Historic Hudson Valley.

 

2006 Professional

I return to graduate school for an MSW and become old man on campus.

 
2004 Personal
Real estate nightmare- just as we are moving into a new house we discover it has a terrible underground oil leak and so we move into a temporary rental house instead.
 
September 7 Steve and I legalize our relationship yet again with a New Jersey domestic partnership certificate.
 
Steve and I go to New Orleans so I can accept the award of Excellence with Glenn Adamson for the show we did on Brook Stevens. New Orleans is beautiful.
 
2005 Personal
July 20 Steve and I have a double wedding with our friends Mary and Liz up in Vancouver, BC. We exchange first nation silver rings depicting whales, because they mate for life. Steve is now my husband, and visa versa.
 
We buy the rental house, and then decide to sell it.
 
Nice new house in Long Branch New Jersey!

2006 Professional / Personal
Feel I have a lot more to give, and decide to switch careers and head into the world of social work-, which is as close as I could come to becoming a nun.
 
 
Created non-profit "Youseum" and began the award nominations and web site http://www.youseum.org/
 
 Hopewell Valley Regional School District Distiguished Grad Press Release
Emotions and Disease: About the Exhibition - Honorary Mention
 
Projected Obiturary of Lou Storey
 

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