Museums much like libraries are places where voices are hushed and noise minimal.
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Sacramento artist Gerald Walburg, left, watches as Jeff Farley swings a hammer during installation of "Sakti No. 15" Monday near the main entrance to the Crocker Art Museum. The metal sculpture was pivoted and tapped into place, then bolted down. The work of Walburg, a former CSUS instructor, is familiar to many his "Indo Arch" is a few blocks away.
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Walburg and Farley use a little elbow grease and heavy equipment on the shiny and heavy metal work. Meanwhile, inside the Crocker, officials were readying an exhibit that opens Sunday, "Rebirth of a Nation: Travis Somerville's 1963."
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Travis Somerville, a San Francisco artist, prepares to hang "The Only Begotten Son" at the Crocker Art Museum as part of a mixed-media presentation on Somerville growing up in the 1960s in the South. Somerville said the work was in a Martin Luther King Jr. show at the Smithsonian Institution that was seen by King's widow, Coretta Scott King. The artist said he was summoned to a meeting with her and she said the painting was her favorite work in the show.
