Art Institute of Dallas students chip in to build cat houses

Dallas Wind Symphony's Ms. Widget to take up residence in winning design

by John P. Meyer

O.K., this is kind of a complicated news item, so rather than stretching it out across several paragraphs let me see if I can condense it down into one content-rich, understandable sentence:

The American Society of Interior Designers Dallas Design Community (that's ASIDDDC, for you acronym mavens) is in the midst of doing a community service-oriented complimentary redesign of the Fair Park office space occupied by the Dallas Wind Symphony, whose mascot is a cat named Ms. Widget, and while the ASIDDDC folks are busy providing window treatment solutions (the most important part of any design project), eight teams of interior design students from the Art Institute of Dallas are each creating a custom house for the aforementioned feline, who will herself try out the finished homes to decide which one she prefers.

Well, that about covers it.

Oh, one more thing: the finished cat houses will be displayed in the Meyerson Symphony Center's lobby prior to the Dallas Wind Symphony's April 17 concert.

Man, I'm glad this release didn't mention the fact that Michael Barone (of American Public Media's Pipedreams) will be hosting a performance by Mary Preston on the mighty Lay Family Concert Organ on the night that the cat houses will be displayed in the Meyerson Symphony Center's lobby, because I never would have been able to get all that in one sentence without creating some kind of top-heavy Frankenstein's monster of a run-on.

source: Art Institute of Dallas