PG: Y13 Art Exhibition

Hi! Last week was Year 13 students' art exhibition at Durham Sixth Form Centre. Students from the art department showcase their artworks and sketchbooks to the public after working on their art concept for a year. Many of them visited with their parents and the evening was fabulous. A few weeks prior to the exhibition, I asked them about their art interests and helped out with the installation. The students are committed to their interests and possess good work ethics so it was very pleasant to interact with them.

PG: Gallery Text

Hi! Sharing some guidelines about art label text. This document is available online. The examples listed in the guidelines are artworks from the V&A museum, to explain more about what it means. Of course, not all information are relevant to our teaching context. 

After a module of sharpening our sensibility in the art museum, I would like to think that I have learnt to look at things with a more critical eye, which also means I can spend many hours in the museum. One unusual aspect (for me) when browsing some museum sites online is the presence of a note under the display caption of the artwork image: Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you. It's unusual for me because I would like to think that before an establishment published any document, it should be error-free and I suppose research has to be done first. However, the sheer volume of artworks in the museum is beyond my imagination. I spend three hours walking to different galleries in the museum and in the midst of it, I did not even take a break. Imagine my surprise when I chanced upon a phrase (inspired by the death of...) on the museum webpage which made me felt uneasy and I thought maybe changes could be made. I wrote in to Tate and voila! it was changed within a week. The problematic phrase in the original description wasn't all incorrect because it was actually quoted in a journal article, but the audience wouldn't know because most visitors will not read every painting in-depth, unless for a purpose (Moore, 2008, p. 211). Hence, what is displayed online or even on-site, has to be as direct as possible and also taking into considerations how the visitors interpret the displayed information. 

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Moore, Jane. (March 2008) 'What Sir Luke Fildes' 1887 Painting The Doctor can teach us about the practice of medicine today', British Journal of General Practice, pp. 210-213.  

Art Class: Virtual Art Exhibition (SYF 2021)

 

Hi Teachers! I've explored some platforms to create virtual art exhibition. It was really hard to navigate initially but I finally decided on Artsteps. It's a free app. Depending the interface, you can use the app on the iPad to view art exhibition but not to create one. I used my laptop and do note that it uses more memory than usual so if it runs slower on the laptop, the RAM on the laptop could be insufficient. My screen recording of students' work is above. The opening event is here and selected artworks for special mention is here.