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Partnership Poster Presentation

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The poster presentation should be done with all who are linked to the same institution or artist.  If you are independent in your partnership, you will be making your poster alone, and if you are paired you will be working together on one poster.  You are to research and prepare a (minimum) 20-24 inch poster on your partner gallery or artist.  Showcase the institution or artist by giving a succinct historical account, and valuable information for knowledge sharing with your peers.  For an institution you are expected to display operational capacities, history and mandate.  For artists you should dissect ways in which the artists’ history and interests have evolved by way of their participation in the art world.  This can include mapping pivotal moments in their career trajectory (such as their first published catalogue, or their move to a specific subject matter or technique, etc) that have signified growth.

You may include images and design strategies in the execution, but it should contain enough information to get a good degree of knowledge, first and foremost.  Please go beyond just regurgitating history and facts, find ways to contextualize the institution or artist, their trajectory, contribution and function within the Vancouver art community, and make it fun!  As well, examine how it structures itself internally or personally, its mandate/focus, funding and administrative structures, (and other insights you feel are pertinent to how one this Institution functions) relate to its place in the larger Vancouver art community context.  The poster should think of your student colleagues as the main audience for the purpose of knowledge sharing.

You may also bring in catalogues, pamphlets, books, etc. to accompany the presentation time.

Please also provide a summary post tagged by your gallery category, of your partner on your blog, accompanied by a small version of the poster for your peers to download.

Due:  October 16th in class & on blog

You can use the Bining lab, info here, or you can use a poster printing place.  This one is available in the Woodwards building, info here.

Orientation Meeting

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The project starts with you contacting your partner (mostly email) and arranging an orientation or meeting with your partner.  You should attend this meeting aware and knowledgeable about the institution, the mandate, exhibitions currently on view, have reviewed the posting.  Some things to consider:

  • Research the organization or artist, through the web, in person, the neighborhood, area of the city the gallery is located, people who may be associated to the space, etc.
  • While many questions will be answered after the first meeting, it is always good to bring a list of questions to the meeting to be sure all topics of inquiry have been covered.
  • If you are in a pair, before your official meeting, meet with your student partner that will also be working at the space with you, and discuss what you have learned in mutual research and share your list of questions.
  • Indicate your skills, knowledge, and experience you bring to the project/organization.
  • What areas do you hope to develop greater experience in or will need to learn?
  • It can be wise to have 3 goals set for what you wish to accomplish in the first meeting.

It would be best if you could attend this meeting as pairs if there are two of you assigned to the position.  At this meeting you will hopefully get a good idea of the expectations of your partner, arrangement of hours/schedule more details about the partnership, and a general sense of the person you will be working with.  Please take notes and bring in questions that you may have.  This meeting may also contain safety demonstrations or other administrative duties and procedures.

*This component of the partnership is required but not graded.  If you do not “pass” this component, you will not be able to pass the course.

Contact Due:  September 15th (latest) and orientation/first meetings should happen by September 22nd.