Fotm - Questions For Richard 1 Nov 09

Public Humanities Student Collaboration With the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson and Wales 2009-2010 Food on the Move Questions for Richard Gutman / Culinary Arts Museum 1 November 2009 In the course of our brainstorming sessions, these are questions the public humanities students working on the project came up with. Regarding the exhibition / working with the Museum: • • • • • • • •

Does the date we chose for the exhibition’s opening work? (More generally, does the timeline work?) How would installation work at the Museum? What days and times would we be able to install (or does the Museum need to do that?)? Does April 8-15 work? Does the Museum’s staff do actual preparatorial work on objects and hanging of objects and panels or do we? Where is the preparatorial space? What kind of access could we have to the space? When may we begin so as to not interfere with other preparatorial work at the Museum? Do you have a designer that you work with? Should we use yours or one of our choice? Is the Museum able to pay for exhibit design? Does the Museum have a review policy for text? We would like to maintain editorial control. How may we be recognized within the Museum for our work? We’d like to avoid implying that our views are those of the Museum as well as claim the work we do on the exhibition. How does fabrication of panels, labels, and other printed matter take place? What fabrication is done in-house? Printing? Exhibit construction? Which of these elements of this project can the Museum support financially?

Regarding the programming / working with the students: •

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What is the Johnson & Wales University calendar? When should the programming committee approach them? How has Richard worked with them in the past? Are specific suggestions/requests needed? Would a collaboration with the students likely be a week-long project/lab? How do collaborations with students come about? Define a J&W student liaison, who shall we contact to work with their student body? Program committee needs to set up meeting.