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Write a report on historical exhibitions.(not points on how to write only a report)
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Exhibit Report for Creativity and Resilience in Children’s Art from Indian Residential and Day Schools
Curated by Andrea N. Walsh, September 23, 2017 – January 6, 2018
Written by Lorilee Wastasecoot
Objective: The purpose of this exhibition summary report on There Is Truth Here is to determine how the exhibit has been received by the community of viewers who came into the Legacy Art Gallery from September 23, 2017 to January 6, 2018. This summary report was compiled using the visitor comment book and feedback given to the staff that recorded attendance and engaged with visitors over the course of the exhibit.
Findings: The comments gathered from this exhibit were informative in understanding how the audience received the show. Many of the comments made were very poignant, that revealed the emotional experience visitors had as they took in the exhibit. They either stopped to talk with gallery front desk staff and/or made comments in the visitor book as they left the gallery. Visitors left with various feelings. Some left feeling happy to see some positivity come from the work of the children, teachers Robert Aller and Anthony Walsh and the survival of the children’s art from the residential school era. While other’s felt triggered and left feeling angry, upset and emotional.
These emotional responses demonstrate that the gallery needs to be aware of the exhibit’s triggering content and how it affected viewers. Gallery staff should be prepared to engage in difficult or uncomfortable conversations with viewers about the subject matter and to be able to offer other resources for cultural and/or emotional support systems outside of the gallery as situations arise.
Another important event that took place before the exhibit was open to the public is to note that before the children’s artwork was hung on the walls for this exhibit Andrea Walsh asked May and Skip Sam, who are Coast Salish elders from the Tsartlip First Nation, to come to the gallery to do a cedar brushing of the space and of Legacy staff to prepare for the emotional work that was going to be done during this exhibit. This was an important step in establishing appropriate Coast Salish protocols and curatorial practices for exhibits of this type at the Legacy Art Gallery which is situated on the traditional territories of the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations of the Lekwungen people.
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