As we discussed in class, the John Harmon
Cassel political cartoon exhibit will be a feature for 2009. Here is a summary of some of the ideas that may be included in the exhibit. We discussed the cartoons being incorporated with
vignettes, helping better illustrated and put into context such issues depicted as banking crises, crime, or political issues. The exhibit will try to use contemporary issues to connect the past to the present. The exhibit may also include an element featuring a child's perspective to help attract and relate to younger audiences. This could involve toys, entertainment, food, or other areas. The overall goal is to have an interplay between exhibition, education, and interaction.
Each of you will focus your museum education project on this exhibit. Included here is a summary of possible ideas from class discussion:
- Blog to set up material and activities for pre and post visits
- Connect programs and activities with art, history, and political science students
- Education packet for students
- Oral history program
- Activity worksheet
- College students and political activism forum/program series
- Family history presentation program
- Economic idea (Depression)
- Visual context (develop programs/activities using period photos or even comic books)
- Hobo program
- Scavenger hunt (tie in to 1930s movies)
- Interactives (flour sack clothing, etc)
Add your own ideas. Remember, select one and touch base with me. Your process paper will focus on this idea.
4 comments:
i would like to take on the engaging college students with political activism. i'm thinking a small installation in teh exhibit that could change through few different topics, plus programs that connect to the topics
for my project i would like to focus more on the interactives> for example, Donna was talking about having part of the exhibit focus on the different visuals of uncle sam and i would like to work on creating an interactive dealing with this
I would like to work with putting things into a audio (radio/music...)/visual(photo,film,object...) context. I want to see the political cartoons first, before coming up with a more specific and detailed plan.
I would like to write about the possibilities of working with the Hobo language and hobo culture of the 1930s. There are a lot of cartoons in the exhibit that relate to Hoover-villes, the dust bowl, the depression / homelessness, etc that i could use as a jumping point.
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