After you have met with your partner and written notes of the project purpose and plan, you will write a ‘plan of attack’ or project outline that organizes the components needed to complete the project. You will be doing one outline per pair if you are doing your project together, and one outline each if you are doing your project individually.
This outline should not only specify important dates and tasks, it should also outline your own personal goals with the projects, skills you will utilize to complete tasks, as well as skills you will need to gain to accomplish parts of the project, and how you will gain those skills. This outline can take on whatever form you feel it needs to take to truly get involved and work through the components of the project, and your place in doing them. It can be reflective and journalistic as well as practical and organized.
Please consider:
- Take the time to reflect on your expectations and assumptions, what will it be like?
Revisit this after the meeting and process what differed, was not what you expected, and what was? What might this mean to the process of the project? - Reflect on how this project will function in a larger context (for the gallery, the artist, for the class, for you!)
- How does this project fit into the goals of the organization/artist you are working with?
- What expectations does the partner have for the project?
- Are there important deadlines and dates?
- Is there a set schedule for being on site and for checking in? Otherwise, how will the project schedule run?
- Who will you be working with directly?
- Will and how will feedback be provided as the project develops?
- What is the best method of communication with the Centre/artist? How frequently?
Due: October 2nd 9am – Project Outline is due at the start of class on your blogs. In some cases you may not be able to meet with your partner institutions until after the due date, please email me ahead of time to let me know if this is the case and you will be granted an extension to accommodate this.