By C.J. Hirschfield
Once upon a time—2006, to be exact—a wonderful
artist named Mary Anne Kluth came to work at Children’s Fairyland as our set-restoration
painter. (We always have a whimsical set that needs love, attention and
brightening.) Who knew that someday Mary Anne would go on to create wildly fantastic
and compelling “theme park collages”—and that her new MegaMatterhorn would be
featured in our own Oakland Museum of California for a two-year exhibition? We
couldn’t be more excited.
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| The MegaMatterhorn exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California. Photo: Mary Anne Kluth. |
I recently asked Mary Anne whether her
experience at Fairyland influenced her whole body of work. I was pleased by her
answer: “That’s fair to say.”
