April Blog Post

This month the event was based on local photographers. It wasn't a big event but it still got the right amount of people to come at the end. This was actually a big deal for an intern at SPACE, it was his first event that he ever should his work in. It was a great boost for him because he is a great photographer. 

Exit Interview

Content:

(1) What is your essential question and answers?  What is your best answer and why?

- How can a curator best promote a photography installation at an art gallery? My best answer is promote the event on the blogs of photographers who are going to display their work at the gallery.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

- The process I took to get my best answer was that every source that I found was related to having social media. I broke it down which social media was used the most between the art gallery and the photographer. They both communicate through blogs and Facebook. 

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

- One of the problems I faced was finding the right statistics related to social media. With the help Pittman expanding my answers horizons I found great and solid statistics.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

-Bamberger, Alan. "Artist Websites: How to Increase Your Online Traffic(And Keep Everyone on Your Site Longer)." & Read, Shirley. "Exhibiting Photography. These two sources are probably my best because it explains how to work with photographers and how to promote them step by step.

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

Content:  

LITERAL
(a) “I, Viviana Bravo, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

- Well what helped do my independent component was actually taking a class at IPoly. This class was ROP photography.
(d) Explanation of what you completed.    
INTERPRETIVE 
Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   

- Well from this I learned a lot of different genres of photography. For example Landscape and Pop art, these two are different genres of photography. Landscape photography is calming and talking pictures with warm natural colors. Pop art is mostly portrait photography, it usually has bright crazy colors, pink, green, etc. 

APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.

- It help me break down how to find the photographer to put in art gallery depending on the theme. It also helped me expand my idea for my first answer because it involves hiring a popular band. With that you have know what kind of genre the photography is. 

March Post

This month there was a new event at the gallery it was women photography month . It was fun met different people and listening to a band playing live. 

Third Answer

-EQ

•  How can a curator best promote a photography installation at an art gallery?

-Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*

• - Ensure the gallery is part of an art district

-3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example)

• -It actually self promotes the gallery being part of an art district. Art districts usually have major events for example art walk usually there is families, artist and a lot more people sharing art and have gallery events. This also makes you involved with your committee  and can help you promote event by going around through other galleries.

-Concluding Sentence

• Ensure the gallery is a part of an art district it has the best location to have events and it automatically self promotes the the gallery and artist.  

Forth Interview Questions

1. How can a curator best promote a photography installation at an art gallery?
2. From your personal experience as a curator what kind of art work stands out to you and why?
3. How do you figure out what kind of setting you want in each event?
4.Who is your favorite photographer and why?
5.When you have booked the photographer how do you figure out what kind of music should be played at the event?
6. From past experiences does the photographer do any complications before the event? If so what kind of complications?
7. Are some events actually seasonal or historical in some way? Explain.
8. In this business do you have to put some type of share? Do you have to pay for the music and food?
9. How did you start of with blogging and working with other social to promote the gallery?
10. How do you put your blog "out there", do you have key terms?
11. Besides posting the photographers pictures on your blog do you post your own or do other interns post on the blog? Or should it be their own blog?
12. Besides you, do other people have certain roles to work with the social media websites?
13. Of course you try to get emails for know the gallery and things like that but do just do important events or every other event? How does that work?
14. Is there any other blog strategies to capture the audience attention?
15. Knowing that the internet is a big source of promoting what do think is another good source to promote the gallery?
16. From what I have seen usually the gallery has come cool activities through out an event, what are you guys planning out this time?
17. In every event do you guys try to challenge yourself to become better or make the gallery noticed?
18. Since you work with Christina how does the whole agreement work? Do the photographers have to be the genre or can it be different?
19. Have you ever improved with donations? Or does it hit rock bottom?
20. What do you think about ensuring the gallery is part of an art district as my third answer? 

February post

This event was cool, the first major event I sadly couldn't go to because it was during winter formal but luckily the week after that there was small event with a live performance by Electrician. It was fun but I couldn't really stay long. I did help out with some of the music equipment and it was cool to meet the lead singer and listening to a different genre