Plymouth City Museum Project

For our Curatorial studies, we have been set a group project of writing a proposal (and all additional documents) to apply for a museum space to exhibit a piece of work. We have to come up with an idea of an installation, exactly where we want it to go, what it will look like and produce everything that supports the application.
After doing some research and discussing with the group this week, we have come up with quite a list of things to complete.

- Proposal itself, along with opening letter
- Joint CV (page of artist statements)
- Funding applications
- Curatorial Rationale
- Logistical requirements
- Newspaper article/ad
- Flyer and poster
- Macquette
- Drawing of installation in the museum
- Letter to contrator
- Risk Assessment
- Review (evaluation)
- Film and Presentation

We had a really productive session on Thursday. There were difficulties as Sharon has now left and Faye was absent, nevertheless we have managed to bring together lots of ideas and come up with a list of things that we need to do. To me, thats one of the most important things - providing some sturcture to our project so we know what exact outcomes we are looking for.

We have decided to go back to an initial idea of having some kind of theme to the piece. Meaning behind it may make the proposal stronger and the art piece more exciting. We have chosen to go with the museum theme, going back to our thoughts of how we could somehow extract from the public, through visual pictures, what museum means to them. Elena suggested adding it as a subtite.
Make Your Mark: Your Museum

It was so great talking with James and Adam in our actual cura session today. They have so much knowledge to offer and I am finding it so interesting picking their brains! I am learning vast amounts about the art and curatorial industry every week. Although I don't agree with some of it, it is so great building knowledge to base an opinion on!

As for our project, we have made significant development to our initial ideas. The problem with Faye being absent is that she may have many ideas and different opinions that we would have loved to co-oporate with. I feel like we definitely missed her today. We will 'propose' what we have come up with to Faye and then hopefully start to produce some of our outcomes.