The facilities at the Center's Wendover Complex continue to improve, due mainly to the efforts of dedicated volunteers, and the continued generosity of the National Endowment for the Arts. This summer, the annual Wendover Work Party was staged over the week of June 23, and about a dozen people drove out to the remote Utah town to help.

A new exhibit space was carved out of one of the old military buildings, and a manufactured office unit was trucked up from Los Angeles for use as a "clean and comfortable work space," a dust free 700 square foot building that has central heat and is even air conditioned. "We're not creating the Ritz here", said CLUI's Wendover Program Coordinator Sarah Simons, "but it's close."

Thanks to all the work party volunteers: John Fitchen, Amy Balkin, David Cunningham, Igor and David Vamos, Edward Coolidge, Moritz Fehr (all the way from Germany!), Erik Knutzen, and Cheryl Cotman. Some of the new facilities leased by the CLUI at Wendover include structures at South Base, the exotic and parched portion of the old airbase where munitions were once stored. This dramatic location is totally isolated and more than a mile out into the flats. "[South Base] is one of the most spectacular places in America," said Simons. "If we had the resources to bring in water and power we'd like to move the whole program out here."