I took the Honors course Solving Problems in Museum Spaces in my first year in winter and spring quarter. In this course, I was paired with another undergraduate student and two masters students in the UW Museology program. In addition to learning about museum spaces through research and guest lectures in class, we worked throughout these two quarters with the masters students on their final thesis projects. I was on a team working on an art exhibition titled Standing, Still which was held at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington from July 3rd to October 10th, 2021.
Throughout the project, I was tasked with many design related components of the exhibition. I created a Call for Artists poster (shown below to the left) that was used to publicize our exhibition to UW students and other artists. Once the artists were selected, I helped our team visualize our exhibition and make design decisions by creating a realistic rendering based on the dimensions of the exhibition space.
Another component I worked on individually for the exhibition was a pamphlet that was given to visitors. Through the pamphlet, our team wanted to give visitors more information about the artists in addition to giving visitors activities they can do to further connect to the theme of the exhibition. I created the pamphlet using Adobe Illustrator. The pamphlet was created using a standard 8.5x11 in piece of paper that was folded into four quadrants, giving the pamphlet two pages front and back. As shown in the images below (left to right), the front page with the title of the exhibition could also be used as a coloring page. When looking at the center pages of the pamphlet (the second and third pages below), additional information regarding the artistic process for four of the artists was shared. The final page (the fourth image below) contained a reflection area for visitors to write about their own experiences in the past year relating to the pandemic. Finally, the pamphlet could be unfolded and contained a connect the dots activity, a QR code to the exhibition website and podcast episodes with the artists, and a quote relating to community (shown in the image below on the right). Another version of the pamphlet translated into Spanish was also created.
