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By Morgan Coffman By this point, class is now officially over. It’s been a long semester with many hurdles along the way, but the end products that everyone has been producing have been well worth the trouble. It’s been very exciting to see everyone’s finished products, and the last class brought with it the last …

By John Terwilliger So we made it. December 7 was our final class meeting. It has been a challenging road to get to this point – at least for me. But we made it. For this week of class we wrapped up some loose ends that needed to be addressed. We began with presentations from …

  Creating an exhibit requires not just all the curatorial tools (planning, designing, prototyping, and others) but also an “open mind.”  My team and I are responsible for developing a Satellite Display in Cavanaugh Hall on the IUPUI Campus. The task reminded me of a display I saw back in India before coming here, in …

By Marissa Hamm   Although we did not have a class meeting this week, Curatorial Practices students were very busy thinking about the Museum of Broken Relationships Indianapolis exhibit and the idea of “fit,” both physically and theoretically.  One of the major ways we are considering fit is in regards to our satellite display exhibits. For …

By Emily McMath Queer curating can explore the spectrum of sexuality and gender expressions. But it goes well beyond rainbow flags and audacious festivals and bare all shocking images. Queer curating, as we dissected this week, challenges viewers, artists, curators, and exhibition spaces, to think beyond the traditional binary. Beyond black and white, beyond right …

By Alyssa Pier  “Curators are more like landlords than professors.” – Emily Wilkes, IUPUI Museum Studies Graduate Student  I know what you are thinking: curators do not necessarily teach, nor do they necessarily have real estate. What kind of nonsense is this? The quote is just one of the many ideas and revelations that this …

By Abby Zepick Many museums carry thousands of objects within their walls, and most of the time only a small fraction of those objects ever get to be looked upon by the everyday visitor. Exhibitors may feel the urge to put as many objects on display as possible to showcase the wide swath of materials …

By Elise Daugherty   It is easy to get caught up in the academic hamster wheel, constantly keeping track of due dates, studying, readings, networking, and applications. In what is often an intense and fast-paced environment, it can be difficult to actually take stock of what you have learned, reflect on where you are, and …

By Kayla McLean This week we considered  several different tools a curator may use and how important they are to creating an exhibit. We started connecting these tools and their importance in curatorial practice using our readings. Of the two tools that stood out the most in our discussion, one was very familiar and the …

By Peyton Reicherts “Sometimes you walk into a historic house museum looking for volunteer opportunities for college and then you spend the next three years playing the ghost of Jack the Ripper victim, Catherine Eddowes.” This is the beginning of the story I wrote to go along with the broken relationships and objects we came …