Dark Side of the Museum is live now.
When asked where I get my story and novel ideas and I have to admit I have no clear idea. Not so with Dark Side of the Museum. I remember when I told my father that I was majoring in
art history he replied, “What are you going to do with that?” Towards the end
of my adult career I was hired as the media relations officer by the
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art here in Kansas
City . Unfortunately, my father had died decades before
so I couldn’t call him and tell my art history major paid off.
The Nelson-Atkins was a fantastic place to work with amazing people for colleagues. I really enjoyed it. One day I was looking at
a large piece of furniture from the workshop of a
I had come to the museum from the University of Kansas
Medical Center where I had been Director of University Relations. This mean
that what was going on around me really was often a matter of life or death.
The professionals I found myself with at the museum worked
with the same intensity in what they were doing as I had encountered at the
medical center. I came very much to admire the curators with whom I got to
work. Their knowledge, articulation and judgment really impressed. But I have
quite a bit of fun with the curators in Dark Side, none of whom are based on
any real person.
When I wrote my one comedy SPILL I found a writing voice that I quite liked and I wanted to
visit that voice again. I don’t know if Dark Side is a comedy or not, there certainly are some laughs in it, at least
there were for me. Dark Side is an
outrageous exaggerated work in which I get to have fun with a bit of paranormal
and time travel.
I am grateful for the many great experiences working at the
museum provided for me and the extraordinary environment in which I found
myself. Here’s a sampling:
