Front-End Evaluation

Working Title: Tales Untold:
The Stories of Folk Art

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Front-end analysis gives us information about the visitor: their expectationsand their existing knowledge about the subject. From this data, we can get a better grasp as to what to focus on in the exhibit and how to present the information.

View the Final Front-Analysis Word Document here.

The joy of analyzing:
Excerpts from our weekly meetings: Sept. 14 | Sept. 21 | Oct. 4

9/14/2006 PANIC! Megan M. states that the Front End Evaluation is due Tues 09/19/06 1. Katie shows two of the images that she has made for the evaluation 2. We decide to use Michelle’s version of the questions for the evaluation: 1. Have you been to the Tarble Arts Center before? Would you be interested in seeing an exhibit about folk art? 2. How often do you go to art museums? How often do you go to history museums? What is the difference? 3. What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think about folk art? 4. Is folk art still produced today? 5. Where does folk art come from? 6. T or F: Paintings are not considered folk art. 7. Name some things that are folk art. 8. Do you own any folk art? If so what? 9, Rank these things by interest (1-most interesting 4-least interesting) Why did you rank them as you did? 3. Jason states that we should go to Booth Library to perform the evaluation because we won’t be able to find enough people there before Tues. 4. Katie says that she will finish the photos and put them in everyone’s mailbox by Friday 5. Megan is going to type up the questions and e-mail them to us. 6. We decide to not sign up since we each only have to do 3 evaluations We all discus what type of objects and themes to explore for the exhibit Emily states that first hand interviews are very beneficial. We all agree that we don’t know what folk art is… (good sign) Michelle and Emily volunteer to write up the front end evaluation on Monday after everyone finishes their survey To top	Above: For the last question of our survey, we asked people to indicate which groups of artifacts pictured they would be most interested in by rating them 1-4. DATA COMPILED:
9/21/2006 The artifact analysis needs to be done by next week, but the design brief is what caused the most grief. The group decided that they needed to work on creating a “big idea” for the exhibit and to work on the context of the pieces in the collection. The definition of context was hard enough, but by discussing things such as regionalism and especially consumerism, an over-arching theme would present itself. A further meeting was planned for the week after IAM but with a short one scheduled during the conference. To top
10/4/2006 Discussed the need for everyone to be on the same page when we go into meetings with Mr. Riccio and Mike Watts - Talked about need to add “historical context” to the exhibit (history of folk art- most likely in eGallery with definition- timeline?) - decided to define folk art right up front, at the beginning of exhibit, instead of having it in back of room- that way visitors will know what we’re using as a basis for describing/identifying folk art - discussed how we want to set up the galleries, given our design constraints - Sound Slides we saw yesterday in photography class- good idea for projection or computer screens in eGallery! - LOOOONNNGGG discussion of Big Idea (thank you all so much for sticking with it…I think it really helped to have us all working together and throwing out ideas!!) THE BIG IDEA: We will explore the definition of folk art by examining various artists, their intentions, and by placing their work in a historical context. (thank you Courtney!) - placed our individual folk art items into categories (consumerism, functionality, hobbies, influences, etc.) –Megan M. will type this up and email it. To top
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