Omega Mart 2009 and 2012

This is a super late reply, but you know how they mention getting the help of kids in the school district? I was in one of those classes (though none of my ideas ever made it into the store and I got pulled out of class a lot, so it's possible I didn't get to do much designing). I made an account to make this post. If needed, I can provide proof (I have my 2011 school yearbook for one of the schools listed in this article: www.abqjournal.com/121030/sf-grocery-store-an-elaborate-prank.html).

Anyways, some media associated with 2012 OM:

www.flickr.com/photos/meowwolf/albums/72157631761078461 (Flickr page)

www.yelp.com/biz/omega-mart-santa-fe (Yelp- note that this address is wrong. St. Michaels' Village, the shopping center that 2012 OM was in, is on the side of the road with only even numbers. The actual address is 142)

www.facebook.com/omega.mart.1 (Facebook page for 2012 OM. They've been using the "quotation marks" for a while)

www.facebook.com/events/1635-st-michaels-drive-santa-fe-nm/mw-chimera-present-omegamart/391211664272916/ (A Facebook event page, also with the wrong address. 1635 seems to be a parking lot outside of a car dealership. I can provide some images as proof of this if needed).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiXRYP9M2PU (Short walkthrough of 2012 OM)

A disclaimer: I never visited the installation when it was open since none of my stuff was there and I was unsure what exactly it was supposed to be. I did visit the Due Return (A pre-HoER Meow Wolf installation) and the House of Eternal Return within 2 months or so of opening.

I noticed that one post on the facebook page has an 'Artist rendering of our very first location in Columbia, MO'. This implies that, like HoER takes place in Mendocino, CA, OM's story begins in somewhere other than the actual location of the installation.

I feel like if I quote the post it'll be too long. Here are my answers, though:

I was barely involved in the 2012 installation. I mentioned that none of my ideas made it into the store, if I was even able to design anything in the class visit at all. A name is mentioned in the ABQ journal article of someone whose work did make it in, so maybe it would be worth contacting them. I wasn't contacted to help with the 2021 version, and I don't live near Las Vegas at all.

Here's an Imgur gallery of the front page+all the posts+the event: imgur.com/a/Y0ZY5Wd