October 25th- Meeting

October 25^th- Meeting

 

Today my partner and I met to discuss our new direction for our exhibit project. After going through our general idea of creating an exhibit that people can interpret the meaning for themselves, we then began to work on figuring out exactly what images we were going to have the public interpret. We searched on Google for images. We knew that one item we wanted to have the public interpret would be a Hmong story cloth. The problem is finding one that has a big enough picture so that when we blow it up, it won’t become pixelated. We also had to find one that had an accompanying description of what it was portraying.

            Once we found what we were looking for, we began searching for the second image. This was difficult because we didn’t really have any real direction as for what to use. We decided on a Native American creation story image that I am familiar with. Now that we had the images, and a general understanding of what we were going to do, it was time to begin dividing up the workload to suit each person’s strengths. My partner decided to research the Hmong story cloth, and I am going to research the Native American creation story. We wrote up a brief outline of what our intended project was so that we both could come back to it later in case we forgot something. Finally we divided up the portions of the proposal that each of us is going to do in regards to the pieces that we are researching. We also discussed who felt the most comfortable doing what as far as completing the other parts of the proposal paper, and we ended our meeting. Both of us agreed that we had a good feeling about the direction that our project was now heading, and are excited to see how it will turn out.

    This is the Native American Creation story that we have finally chosen to display. It was created by an Iroquois artist in the 1930's