How has your identity shaped how you see the world? What role does one's identity have in art?

Module 6: Programming and Installation

STAKEHOLDERS – Installation & program presenters LEARNING GOAL With a clear idea of their own exhibition thesis, teens learn about installation and programming, considering how to engage visitors in the narrative they are building. Expectations are made clear for their final proposal presentations, and the teens are given more open time to build their proposals.

EXPERIENTIAL GOAL The teens work more independently, with a clear sense of what they must accomplish and activities interspersed that help inform this thinking.

Allocated time per activity

= 1 hour

Curatorial Study Hall

An opportunity to learn from and work with Museum curators and other staff.

1.5 hr INSTALLATION

Erica Hirshler of Hyman Bloom Installation How can we create conversations between objects? Examples of effective and less effective installations in the AoA Wing Brainstorm: installing our exhibition spaces

1.5 hr PROGRAMS

What are programs and why do we need them? Examples of effective and less effective programs. Brainstorm: programs for our exhibits Reading & Looking

Rich material to help build the context and language for conceiving an exhibit.

1 hr CURATORIAL ACTIVISM

Reflecting

Building in time to think about the big picture, build perception and insight, and strengthen communication.

1 hr INSTALLATION

How does the way people walk through an exhibit determine a work’s placement? How far apart should you space works on a single wall? How did Erica explain how she gets visitors to travel through spaces “correctly” with two entrances? Making & Doing

Synthesizing and applying the skills and knowledge gained by interpreting the museum.

2 hr EXHIBITION DESIGN

Design of teens’ own exhibitions

3.5 hr PRESENTATION PREP

Preparation for presentation to exhibition review team Other

Additional activities to access the Museum and their own creativity.

1 hr LUNCH WITH LEADERSHIP TEAM

1 hr MEDITATION

1 hr SCHOOL GROUP VIDEO

1 hr MFA DEI ROUNDTABLE

1 hr MUSEUM TOUR

2 hr SCAVENGER HUNT

FINAL PROJECT: MFA Exhibition Proposal

As your final project for Curatorial Study Hall, please propose an exhibition for one gallery at the MFA. The gallery (the Lower Rotunda, the Sharf Visitor Center, or the Hemicycle) will be randomly assigned to you, and your exhibition should include between 6 and 12 works of art. You can choose the works of art from the packet of 45 images (which includes works that you have seen and studied this summer), and you can also find additional objects on the Museum's website: https://collections.mfa.org/collections

You will share your proposal with your peers through an oral presentation, as well as offer feedback on their proposals. Presentations should last 5 to 10 minutes and answer the following questions: 1. What is the theme (or story) of your exhibition?

You can use a theme that we have discussed this summer, such as music, portraits, social justice/Black Power, artists from Boston, or come up with a new theme.

2. How will the works of art be installed in the gallery? How will you "use" the

space?

Think about which works of art will hang together and how people will enter the space and see them. 3. What do you want MFA visitors to learn from your exhibition?

Tell us about the goal of your project.

Please also provide written responses to these questions on the attached worksheet, and complete the Sample Label worksheet.