Stop by the fifth floor of the Bissell Building to six “personal mini exhibits” put together by Master of Museum Studies students taking the Curatorial Practice course (MSL2000H) taught by Assistant Professor Maggie Hutcheson.
The challenge of the personal mini exhibit is for students to communicate an aspect of their own history, identity, community or lived experience using only a few items and limited text. The students note that curation on themes they are personally invested in can be difficult and vulnerable. They must decide: “What should we make public and what should we protect? How can we translate what we know/feel/experience/remember? How will we do justice to nuances and contradictions?
“Curation is also always an exercise in constraints. How can we best communicate given our time, budget, location, and context?”
MSL2000H students have wrestled with these curatorial challenges to produce the exhibits now featured. They invite visitors to view, smell, touch and respond to their work.
Prof. Hutcheson extends special thanks to Muneer Armanazi, Dr. Claire Battershill and Felix Grundig for their help bringing these exhibits to life.
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