First and foremost, on behalf of the photographers, staff, and fellow collaborators, I would like to extend our greetings to you, our visitor. Your participation in this exhibit is both a worthwhile experience for you and for us.
We have implemented this blog as a venue for you to discuss what you have seen at the "A Sense of Place: Italy" exhibit. We encourage you to engage in constructive and meaningful discussion with other visitors, as well as with the photographers and members of our curatorial staff. Feel free to ask questions about any of the works you have seen, our experiences, and anything else that you can think of.
Note: All comments will be moderated for appropriate content. You will be able to post comments to this blog without registering for a Blogger account (after all, our intent is to make this blog accessible to all). When posting a comment, please note that it may not appear right away - we will check your comment to ensure that it does not contain any foul, questionable, or lewd language and to ensure that it is relevant to the topic being discussed.
Once again, welcome and thank you for visiting.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Welcome to the blog!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
A Sense of Place, Italy: A Collaborative Creation
"A Sense of Place, Italy" is a collaborative project among AMST, under the guidance of staff member Deborah Fullerton, and 2 classes from TAMUCC. This presentation features dynamic and diverse images captured by students in Barbra Riley's photography class held this past summer and the development and implementation of an art exhibition by Elizabeth Reese's current Museum and Gallery Practices class.
Beginning in July, a group of students traveled to Tuscany to explore, photograph, and respond to Italian culture and surroundings. Asked to develop a focus or theme for their photographs, Riley's students captured bicycles, architecture, people, and markets or mercatos. Presently, each student is choosing 5 photographs and writing artist statements. Photographers will be asked to print and frame 3 images for the exhibition. This part of the project was held in collaboration with Santa Reparata International School of Art.
Beginning in August, another group of students began exploring and examining museum and gallery practices through readings, discussions, and other opportunities. In an effort to put ideas into practice, these 10 students will select 3 photographs from each photographer and then further develop the presentation into a visual narrative and engaging experience. An opening reception will be held on December 11th at 6pm, with a Family Day on Sunday, December 14th, 1-4pm. Free disposable cameras will be distributed to the first 50 youth visitors.
...and the collaboration continues with YOU our bloggers! Welcome to the team!
Beginning in July, a group of students traveled to Tuscany to explore, photograph, and respond to Italian culture and surroundings. Asked to develop a focus or theme for their photographs, Riley's students captured bicycles, architecture, people, and markets or mercatos. Presently, each student is choosing 5 photographs and writing artist statements. Photographers will be asked to print and frame 3 images for the exhibition. This part of the project was held in collaboration with Santa Reparata International School of Art.
Beginning in August, another group of students began exploring and examining museum and gallery practices through readings, discussions, and other opportunities. In an effort to put ideas into practice, these 10 students will select 3 photographs from each photographer and then further develop the presentation into a visual narrative and engaging experience. An opening reception will be held on December 11th at 6pm, with a Family Day on Sunday, December 14th, 1-4pm. Free disposable cameras will be distributed to the first 50 youth visitors.
...and the collaboration continues with YOU our bloggers! Welcome to the team!
Welcome to the Exhibition BLOG
As part of our curatorial studies in the Fall 2008 Museum and Gallery Practices class, we discuss and debate how to create dialog and community among artists, curators and viewers in the context of an art exhibition.
Among the many methods we will implement for this exhibition, we also selected to BLOG. Here our collective myriad of experiences as viewers, students, artists, curators, professors, and museum professionals can be explored, connected, examined and—perhaps most importantly—contributed.
This allows for a more open and explicit form of communication than permitted by most art exhibitions. While there are always numerous ideas, interpretations, and inquiries lurking implicitly in exhibitions, here we invite you to make these musings revealed.
We hope that you will choose to experience the exhibition and then participate in the conversation. What are your experiences with the art, exhibition, travel, Italy? What questions do you have about certain images or artistic processes? What do you wonder about the installation itself?
Go ahead. Ask and chat away.
Among the many methods we will implement for this exhibition, we also selected to BLOG. Here our collective myriad of experiences as viewers, students, artists, curators, professors, and museum professionals can be explored, connected, examined and—perhaps most importantly—contributed.
This allows for a more open and explicit form of communication than permitted by most art exhibitions. While there are always numerous ideas, interpretations, and inquiries lurking implicitly in exhibitions, here we invite you to make these musings revealed.
We hope that you will choose to experience the exhibition and then participate in the conversation. What are your experiences with the art, exhibition, travel, Italy? What questions do you have about certain images or artistic processes? What do you wonder about the installation itself?
Go ahead. Ask and chat away.
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