Hello NMC Faculty and Staff,
I would like to invite you to help us create an exhibition from the museum’s art collections and in doing so make some museum history! The exhibition title is Museum Collections: Community Curators.
For over 20 years, the college and the museum have worked to develop an art collection that can be used as a community resource for exhibition and teaching. This collection contains about 2000 works, half of which is Inuit art, and the balance a diverse collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, works on paper and other media by artists of state, national and international reputation.
For years we have shown this growing collection by selecting the works to be shown and presenting them in the galleries. This time we would like you to select the works to be shown and write a short paragraph (your interpretation) about the work from your perspective.
During the 2006 Community Curators exhibition, we invited about 50 people, representing a diverse cross section of the Grand Traverse community, to participate. This time around, we are inviting the entire community to participate, not only for the gallery exhibition, but also as a new, online exhibition.
From March 22, 2012 through the end of the exhibition, June 17, 2012, viewers can go online to our website, view the works, and offer their own interpretations of the works.
Selections need to made and interpretations entered by April 3 in order to be included in the physical gallery.
To learn more and to participate, go to this webpage: http://www.dennosmuseum.org/
This is also a great opportunity for your students and family, so feel free to pass on the information.
A special thank you to Steve Kellman for helping to setup the online gallery in SmugMug.
Have fun curating!
Diana Bolander
Curator of Education and Interpretation
Dennos Museum Center