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How many phone calls does it take to display a teaching hive in a gallery?

One student's MFA thesis exhibition is turning into a paperwork nightmare leading through various crooks and crannies of the university. She wants to have an educational exhibit featuring honey bees. The container will be sealed, the bees will only live in the gallery during open hours during the two-week installation, the same bees will not be displayed for the entire exhibition. However, there are lists of concerns and lists of signatures needed to show that the gallery and the College of Fine Arts have considered all of these concerns. Safety (what if someone is allergic?); animal rights (are the bees at risk?); structural (will the bees escape their glass house?); emergency contact (who will take responsiblity if anything goes wrong).