Blog 18: Two Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. What is most important in curating an art show?

2. My third answer is: "Knowing the demographics that you are advertising to."

3. a) You have to be sure not to offend anyone.
    b) Different cultures are attracted to different things.
    c) There could be an overabundance of one type of ethnicity and it could help you expand your range towards a wider audience knowing that.

4. Strom, Stephanie. "To Attract a Crowd, Scour Your Deographics." Nytimes.com. New York Times, 14 Mar. 2010. Web. 10 Jan. 2013.

5. I plan to study more on location choosing for the best audience flow.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is most important in curating an art show?

2. How do you know which is the best way to showcase an aesthetic?

3. What is the most important thing you learned from your education about art show curating?

4. How do you think the location helps an art show progress?

5. Is there a specific location in the entire world that you think would be the best?

6. What type of art would you choose in the art show and why?

7. What are some of the factors you look at when making at art show?

8. Do you see location as somewhat important or very important and why?

9. Whom is the most inspirational curator to you? What did they do right?

10.  Do you have any special tricks you use to display hard to show items


11. What is the hardest piece you've shown?

12. What is the attendance at your museum?

13. What has your museum done in order to know the demographics that attendm

14. What do you to to appeal to a wider audience?

15. What have your past advertising events been and what was successful about it?

16. What are some of the most vital connections that any art curator must have?

17. What are the best locations to have an art gallery?

18. Why is the location so important?

19. How did you make the connections that you did?

20. Is there any advice you could give to anyone new trying to get into the business?

Blog 16: Two Hour Meeting Answer #2

1.) What is most important in curating an art show?

2.) My second answer for my essential question is knowing which demographic you are advertising to.

3.) Three details or facts:

- an art museum relies upon the visitors participation, 

- you need to know your demographic in order to put on exhibits that cater to them,

- gives you insight to the location you are in too.

4.) This source.

<Bob, Duggan. "Big Think." Does the Art World Have a Demographics Problem? Big Think, 20 Nov. 2012. Web. 05 Jan. 2013.>

5.) I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by doing extensive research on the statistics of demographics within the art world, and how you can play more toward your demographic for a happier result.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

CONTENT:

1.) I plan on doing several things for my independent component. First, I will continue my work at AMOCA as a photographer and odd jobs person. Then, I also will hope to try to instill a better functioning art show at Ifest. For example, we will have a stage and Easy-Up setup for the art, as well as freestanding wall dividers so there is a more professional feel to it. Also, there will be better advertisement and activities so that more ipoly students will be interested in it.

2.) My project will meet the 30 hour minimum thanks to my diligent work at AMOCA, and any extra hours will be recorded with my work on the I-fest art show.

3.) My independent study component relates to my working EQ (What is most important in curating an art show) because with this component I will get the chance to actually curate Ipoly's own art show. I will use the techniques I have learned in order to make this the best ever Ipoly art event ever. (:

Extra Blog 6

ITS INSTALLATION TIME AT AMOCA (:

Blog 14: Independant Component 1

LITERAL:

a) I, Ivy Jordan, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

b) Susan Reed

[sreed@amoca.org]

c) Spreadsheet

d) I have completed helping AMOCA photograph their advertisements for an entire show. This has been a longstanding amount of work that had to be done on a weekly basis, but basically with my efforts attributed to the whole, I can successfully say that I helped significantly with the progression of the next show.

INTERPRETIVE:

a) In my experiences, I have been keeping up with updating my extra blogs as the year goes on to show what goes on during my mentorship. However, I do not save a lot of the photos, but the ones that are up are going to be attributed to the AMOCA website that is under construction right now. I have been taking a lot of the product photos etc. 

Look!

I photographed the bottom picture

^^ 

The newest show.(:

APPLIED:

a) This component (simply volunteering) helped me to understand my topic better because now I have seen what goes into make a show twice all of the way. Speaking and inteacting with the staff really helped me to gain a better understanding of what actually goes on, as well as just watching from the sidelines. Who would have known that making veggie platters and photographing tiny photos would be such a big deal? They actually aren't but they are a big essential for making the bigger things look nice. I learned from Susan how you can market yourself out there (or the museum). She goes to seminars and festivals for art, basically anything she can do to advertise AMOCA better. I learned that in order to have a good turnout and therefore a good show, you need to get out into the world and make sure they know about your event. Its a lot about advertising.