Newark Experience:
This trip I
was really excited for the simple fact I had never been to the Newark Museum
before and living a train ride away I should I visited this place a million
times. However, this was my first rendezvous with this initiation so I went in
with fresh set of new eyes and ears to learn about the whole museum aspect of
exhibiting and curating.
Pat was our
tour guide a sweet elderly woman who really knew the facts of the museum. She
started us off with a brief history of the museum John Dana who was an
entrepreneur of the arts so he decided to contribute to the community and to
create a learning experience. The museum was established for the sole purpose
of educating the community and that it was not exclusive to a particular group
that everyone can enjoy the art and learn.
The museum has many galleries with it that have a theme Early Art
(Egyptian, Mesoamerica etc.) The
institution has a chronically order of the displayed pieces. The curators
acquire pieces that have a chronically order, have a core theme to the exhibit
and pieces that have an educational value. Newark Museum relies on their guides
and labels that allow the viewer to do further research.
Pat
informed us that Newark has been hit hard recently and had to make a lot of cuts
and the funding is suffering a little, but their core funding comes from
collections, memberships, foundations and supporters. The exhibits on display like the Woman behind
Lens the institution was trying something new so the curator pretty much had to
work their “ass” off to pitch this idea and integrate a new idea and
contemporary idea to the institution, like the MOMA curators work hard here as
well not big at the scale of MOMA but in equal respect of gathering work,
constructing a theme and executing it.
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