Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Gallery Internship
The description of what my duties are at WAAS Gallery are undefined. WAAS Gallery, commonly referred to as "wah-z" is a space which used to exhibit and sell art, but now has attempted to shift the focus from handling the artworks as commodity items, to expressions of human expression which enrich our lived existence. Rather than selling the aesthetic value of the art, WAAS seeks to sell the healing value of art. The healing value of art can be defined as a mental sense of belonging among a community, an ability to manifest abstract thoughts physically, and/or promoting a sense of serenity and inspiration which encourages one to think of the world in new ways. This summer I plan on developing an educational program for WAAS's summer programming which will include an environmental art installation to promote and question the concept of "sustainability" between ourselves as humans and our natural environment. It will be a public community event for no more than 25 people. This week I will finalize my final objectives an goals and will start working on promoting and looking for funding. I am excited but I am also nervous/anxious to be able to seen it evolve from an idea to a physical product.
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This sounds exciting, Liz! I look forward to reading more as your work at the gallery develops. Your installation sounds intriguing. As you work on that, you may want to think about presenting about it at this sustainability conference in Santiago, Chile in January (https://onsustainability.com/2020-conference/call-for-papers). It's a unique conference in that they accept proposals about environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability. I think I am going to submit a paper on cultural heritage sustainability so maybe I will see you there! :)
ReplyDeleteI think the topics of humanity, sustainability, and nature are super interesting. Because my museum is focused on Wildlife as a subject and we are basically bordering a national park we frequently explore the same themes. In particular I was not expecting so much focus on conservation. I would love to see how our institutions handle those subjects differently or similarly.
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