Friday, September 18, 2009

HOW WE PRACTICED (WEEK ONE)



We wrote on the walls.


We covered our entire empty gallery in butcher paper. We looked at it blank, it's dimensions, it's possibilities. And then, we decided to ask ourselves questions and make statements, too. We put all of this on the walls, writing in crayons of different colors. "How is an exhibit built?" "Are children slaves?" and "I'm excited to find out what our exhibit will look like" were the kinds of things we expressed. Here's a detail from the walls:




What do you think an exhibit is? How would you talk about slavery in an exhibit? This is what we've had on our minds.

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