Initial Publication Date: June 14, 2011

Day One: Wednesday

I. Introductions

Goals, Fears, and Phobias
Participants shared their goals for the workshop, and their fears and phobias related to exhibitions.

Introduction transcript (Acrobat (PDF) 44kB Dec5 12)


II. Exhibitions

Basic Characteristics of Exhibitions





Objects
Brainstorming Questions:
1. Why propose an exhibition assignment rather than a paper?
2. What objects are exhibition-worthy?
Brainstorming Discussion (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 124kB Jun28 11)
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that changed the world
Related reading:
Objects of Desire
Susan Stewart, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection, 1993. Available at Gould Library, Carleton College on Catalyst.

III. "Real" objects?

Susan Jaret McKinstry provided an overview of "real" objects vs. images (of real objects) vs. reproductions (of real art images). PLUS, Susan offered tales from the front--what has worked, what has not worked from the perspective of faculty curator.

Progressive Exhibitions PowerPoint (PowerPoint 1.7MB Jun30 11)
Notes from Progresssive Exhibitions Presentation (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 85kB Jun28 11)
Victorian Novels: The Carleton ReMix Exhibition



IV. Break

Perusal time: We provided an assortment of exhibition catalogues to demonstrate various organizing approaches. See Bibliography of Selected Catalogues. (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 95kB Jun14 11)

V. Framing. Shaping

Framing PowerPoint (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 14.3MB Jun16 11)
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's interactive online exhibitions.

Tour of the Viz site
Aisling Quigley, the Viz Program Associate, gave a brief tour of the Viz website.


Discussing White Spaces, SITES, and more!
The Weitz Center for Creativity
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

Discussing White Spaces, exhibits, Fred Wilson, the Tang
Houdini: Art and Magic Exhibition
Art 21: Fred Wilson on PBS
Molecules that Matter at the Tang
A Very Liquid Heaven at the Tang

Discussing practical concerns, objects, etc.
Columbia University Libraries: Guidelines for Lending Materials

Exhibition catalogues, etc.
The Marvelous Museum: A Mark Dion Project