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Unusual Suspects: Art’s Expanded Relevance with Danica Evering
We had a great group in for the very first Drinkin About Museums! Below are some notes from the talk by Danica Evering. Thanks so much for coming out and speaking with us!
- Audiences Reaching out: drum up support
- Use intimacy inherent in exhibition to reach out.
- Show is about longing, grief, textiles.
- Correspond that with different programs.
- Fashion students, for example.
- Each group invited in came with their own expertise.
- Tactics: for a show of Inuit video art. Just googled “humber inuit” got hits for a group that went to the arctic every year.
- Wearable technology piece, brought in multimedia students.
- Act of reaching out. Make a specific invitation letter. Being open to new audiences: kindergarteners interested in coming.
- Program coordinators were the leads.
- Knows about 2 months ahead of time, themes and the artists.
- Adapt the themes of the exhibit to meet the needs of different audiences. Read syllabuses, found common ground.
- Community development: with year-long students
- Plain language: curators wrote poems for didactic panels. Avoids overly academic explanatory text. Gave people a feeling of what and exhibition is about.
- Worked at Humber for 1.5 years
- Actively being a part of a community, going to their things. Reciprocal connections.
- Important to have a small meeting space (open space).
- Gallery attendants: fostering their social skills, welcoming.
- Meeting spaces. Asking profs for feedback: if you’re not coming to the gallery why not?
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