My So-called Life...
Hello fellow ‘terners, I have enjoyed reading everyone’s first foray in the Insightful Internship blogs. For those who do not know me, my name is Guy Bruggeman and I am also working on my master’s degree in Museum Education. I work for the City of Dallas in the Department of Aviation as the Art and Programming Coordinator. This extremely long title essentially allows me to be the liaison between the Dallas Public Art Program (they have 17 pieces in the collection at the airport) and the Aviation department. I oversee the collection which includes presenting about it and conducting tours. I also have an art gallery, thanks Eben for the great exhibition, and 15 display cases that are also an exhibition space. I also oversee the performing arts which currently is building up our music performances on our brand new stage. Okay, enough about my work life…. I am in the final process of completing my application/schedule/internship work schedule with the Museum of Biblical Art. I am pretty excited about interning there. I always enjoy visiting with them and hope to learn more and experiment with different touring techniques along with other projects that they will have lined up for me. I will blog about this some more once I start.
Hello fellow ‘terners, I have enjoyed reading everyone’s first foray in the Insightful Internship blogs. For those who do not know me, my name is Guy Bruggeman and I am also working on my master’s degree in Museum Education. I work for the City of Dallas in the Department of Aviation as the Art and Programming Coordinator. This extremely long title essentially allows me to be the liaison between the Dallas Public Art Program (they have 17 pieces in the collection at the airport) and the Aviation department. I oversee the collection which includes presenting about it and conducting tours. I also have an art gallery, thanks Eben for the great exhibition, and 15 display cases that are also an exhibition space. I also oversee the performing arts which currently is building up our music performances on our brand new stage. Okay, enough about my work life…. I am in the final process of completing my application/schedule/internship work schedule with the Museum of Biblical Art. I am pretty excited about interning there. I always enjoy visiting with them and hope to learn more and experiment with different touring techniques along with other projects that they will have lined up for me. I will blog about this some more once I start.
In the meantime, I volunteered at the Nasher Sculpture
Center this past Saturday for the “Target First Saturdays.” Boy, what an eye opener. I have been to these
before when taking my now, 7-year-old son.
To be on the other side was a lot different. I have known the Nasher crew for almost 10
years and to be quite honest, owe them a lot.
I was assigned to the materials table where we had everyday materials
that artists’ may use to create works of art.
We also had some blocks and some type of building materials that were
really fun to play with. Our job had a
few goals in mind. One of the first was
to let them know that this is one of the only places that you can touch objects
at the Nasher. The second was talking
about the materials and how artist’s use them to create art objects. We had stainless steel, wood, wax and
plaster. We also had some images of
artworks in the Nasher collection that are made from these materials. We introduced these materials to the kids
while asking them questions about these everyday materials and of course allowing them to touch the objects as much as they wanted. I was also in charge of creating a thank-you
card to Target by using their fingerprints to create the Target Logo.
Surprisingly it wasn’t too messy and should look pretty good.
As mentioned earlier, this was a bit of an eye-opener to be
on the lecturing end. The four + hours
flew by and before I knew it Anna Smith came by and told me I was done for the
day. I mentioned to her that I would
talk to the other ‘terners to see if they would be interested in assisting for
some of the upcoming Target First Saturdays.
I will be back for their September event but, “They are always looking
for volunteers.”
Peace,
Guy
Good for you, Guy! It sounds like a great opportunity to see "behind the curtain" of what goes into planning and executing such a large-scale event. What about the experience was the most eye-opening for you? Is there anything you learned from your volunteering that you will take back with you to the airport? Also, is Eben's work at the airport?! That is awesome, if so!
ReplyDeleteAnd, hooray for your anticipated start at the Museum of Biblical Arts! I look forward to hearing about your experiences there!
Yes, I have a quite large painting being shown along with a number of other UNT MFA Studio artists, it's a really great looking show and should be up pretty much all summer! Thanks Guy for giving us the great opportunity!
DeleteI have taken my son to these many times, so the experience was not so much "new" but very different since I was presenting. I guess one eye-opener was that everyone there chose to be there, especially the volunteers and it was refreshing to see happy and positive attitudes from everyone.
ReplyDeleteSounds like fun! I always enjoy getting to see 'the other side' of things - especially in museums. It is so beneficial both as an educator and as a visitor. It is really interesting and fun to see both how to use activities to explain concepts and see how those concepts are perceived by the visitors.
ReplyDeleteSounds like fun! I always enjoy getting to see 'the other side' of things - especially in museums. It is so beneficial both as an educator and as a visitor. It is really interesting and fun to see both how to use activities to explain concepts and see how those concepts are perceived by the visitors.
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