Viz

The beginning:

Pre-workshop Questionnaire







Curatorial Workshop Syllabus

Readings

Thinking Spatially
John Weber, Thinking Spatially: New Literacy, Museums, and the Academy
Educause Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2007

The Reticent Object
Peter Vargo, The New Museology, 1997

Introduction: Museums as Contested Sites
Steven Dubin, Displays of Power, 2001

Available at Gould Library, Carleton College on The Bridge

What a Mess! Claiming a Space for Student Experimentation in the University Museum (Acrobat (PDF) 149kB Jun13 11)
Janet Marstine, Seton Hall University

Exhibiting Artists' Books: Three Perspectives from a Curatorial Seminar (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 155kB Jul5 11)
Laurel Bradley, co-authored with Kristi Wermager and Gabriel Perri Silberblatt, Past or Portal: Enhancing Undergraduate Learning through Special Collections and Archives, 2011

Curricular Connections: The College/University Art Museum as Site for Teach and Learning (Acrobat (PDF) 179kB Jul5 11)
Laurel Bradley, caa.reviews
August 2009

Handouts

• Gould Library Exhibition Timelines
• Curating the Teaching Museum
• Example Labels (Acrobat (PDF) 463kB Jun12 11)
  Examples of student labels from past courses.
• Metal Museum Exhibit Handout (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 23kB Jun12 11)
  Example of exhibit assignment used in the Geology Department.
• The Census Remix Exhibit Handout (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 122kB Jun12 11)
  Example of exhibit assignment used in the Sociology and Anthropology Department.
• Laurel's Artists' Books Seminar Syllabus (Microsoft Word 64kB Jun15 11)
  Sample syllabus from a course that culminated in an exhibition.

Links

Exhibition Planning at Carleton
Museum 2.0
Reading and Responding to Exhibitions at the Tang
The Giuseppe Vasi Project
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Reading Artifacts Summer Institute, Canada Science and Technology Museums (link no longer available)