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Choosing Exhibits
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Current Exhibitions:
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The Superheroes Project
by Trevor Ruszkowski
November 12, - December 24, 2009
For as long as I can remember, my life and the fictional world of superheroes have intertwined, but the wall between imagination and reality never blurred. In this project I wanted to blur the line. It was conceived while I was in graduate school, but came to life in the spring of 2007, during a UTM soccer team trip to the critical-care children’s ward in Jackson. The project has grown from six to 36 different super characters. A large photomontage print of the “supers” will be printed and matted for Jackson-Madison Regional Medical Center thanks to Jowers Printing. I hope that these panels bring smiles to sick kids. I also hope that viewers who see them remember what it was like to let their imagination go. It is okay not to be so serious, so money hungry. Sometimes it is just good to play, to reinvigorate imagination, to get lost in a fantastic world that has no bounds. |
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What’s Cookin’? Two Centuries of American Foodways
Sept. 15th – Oct. 16th 2009
A Traveling Exhibit from the Rogers Historical Museum For additional information go to: http://www.rogersarkansas.com/museum/WhatsCooking.asp
Pieces: Quilts by Francis Williams
May - August 2009
Over her long life, Martin resident Frances Williams was an active quilter. This exhibit of ten quilts represents her design skills with both piecing (assembling a quilt top) and quilting (stitching a top to a batt and backing), as well as with embroidery and design. Some quilts are very traditional while others are modern or adaptations of old patterns.
Dr. Seuss Wants You!
January - March 2008
Political cartoons have played a role in United States politics and
public affairs since the 1700s. Before he was a children's-book author
and illustrator, Theodore Seuss Giesel drew political cartoons for PM
newspaper during World War II, expressing a liberal view on Nazi
repression and American isolationism in an uncensored medium. "Dr. Seuss
Wants You!" collects a number of his best-known single-panel political
cartoons and presents them with explanatory text and other contemporary
information.
Here Comes the Bride: Weddings in America
Jan 15 - Apr 4 2008
A Traveling Exhibit from the Rogers Historical Museumfor additional information: http://www.rogersarkansas.com/museum/HereComes.asp
Pairings - Photographs by Robert Nunley
November 2007 - January 12, 2008
Interview with Robert Nunley (audio)
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Diversity Endangered
September - Oct 19 2007
A dazzling diversity of plants and animals inhabit the earth creating a rich natural world without which our lives would be impossible. Human activities threaten this living diversity. This poster exhibition examines the issues surrounding the problem and illustrates some of the ways each of us can make a difference. |
Songs of the Patriot
When American Music Went to War
January - March 2007
Songs of the Patriot takes viewers back in time to the American wartime fronts at home and abroad during World War II through the cover art and lyrics of popular sheet music from 1940 to 1945. The exhibit explores how music publishers, songwriters and cover artists expressed a range of American wartime feelings from anti-war statements to rallying support for troops overseas. It also explores the booming sheet music industry, printing and chromolithography, and the significance of piano playing as a form of home entertainment.
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To be announced at a future date. |
Choosing Exhibits
Exhibits must meet each of five selection criteria:
Schedule An exhibit must be touring and have a slot that matches an opening on the museum exhibit calendar. Enough lead time to allow time for approvals, contract negotiations, and programming development has to be available. We try to book two exhibits per regular school term and one in the summer, based on exiting bookings and availability dates. Exhibits are typically booked between a year and two years in advance.
Space We can book an exhibit only if the curatorial data shows that it fits within the gallery space we have available (approximately 400 square feet, or 111 running feet of exhibit space). Permission to show only part of an exhibit must be granted by an exhibitor in the contract by an exhibitor. It happens only very rarely and in exceptionally compelling circumstances. The security requirement (number and type of cases, site supervision, electronic security) must be at a level the museum can meet without incurring additional costs.
Cost Flat exhibit fees and variable shipping charges must be within the limited budget on which the Museum operates and leave funds for other exhibit commitments; there are lots of great shows out there that we simply cannot afford.
Shipping Exhibit venues are obligated to care for shipping containers as well as exhibit materials. We must consider exhibits based partly on the requirements for storing the size and number of cases in our limited space.
Germane We look for exhibits that are interesting, challenging, or downright entertaining. It may be very broadly interpreted, but some element of the exhibit must be relevant to UTM students and the community at large.
Information:
J. Houston Gordon Museum
Paul Meek Library
10 Wayne Fisher Dr.
Martin, Tenn. 38238
The gallery is adjacent to the Corbitt Special Collections reading area, to the left of the library circulation desk.
Museum Hours:
Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and by special arrangement
Weekdays between 8am and 3pm off-campus visitors’ vehicles require a parking permit, available at no cost from the Circulation Desk staff. Parking is available adjacent to the library after 3pm daily without a permit.
The Museum is handicap accessible.
email link: speccoll@utm.edu
phone number: 731-881-7464
