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Food on the Move Group Meeting – 22 October 2009
Present:Annie, Ron, Adrian, Anna, Krystal, Jonathan, Amy A., Kaitlynne,Elena, Shana, Meghan, Steve, Chelsea, JanetOur focus was on defining our next steps for the project. Steve, Annie,Chelsea, and Ron agree that our project of building out the exhibits at theCulinary Museum by selecting key objects and interpreting them along withthe plan to take panels out to sites in Providence and incorporate a printeditem (passport / map) is not too ambitious.
However, we need to refine our project and create a detailed plan as follows:
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Need to define our relationship with the Culinary Museum in a meetingover the next three weeks.
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We’ll come to the meeting prepared with a timeline, budget(including a request for a contribution from the museum), andquestions for Richard. (FIGURING OUT THE TL, BUDGET, ANDQUESTIONS WILL BE THE FOCUS OF OUR NEXT GROUP MEETING.)
Ex what do we do if an object needs conservation? Whopays for it?
Budget for acquiring things not in the collection?
Does culinary museum do its own design?
Do they approve texts?
Other projects planned that might conflict?
Process for graphics?
When can we work there for research and installation?
Requirements about layout? Overseeing installation?
Does construction need to happen there?
Who should we contact from the student body?
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Need to set up a meeting ASAP
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Get timeline constraints from students
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 Janet will begin to find possible meeting times with Richard.
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At this meeting, we’ll formally request the space, use of thecollections, flexibility to say what we want in our interpretationspaces, recognition, and anything else we need. We should beexplicit about the relationship. (LET’S DISCUSS OUR NEEDS IN THE NEXT MEETING.)
Thinking about the exhibit component:
1830s – PresentEasy to break into pieces
 
Ex. 10 panels (~1/curator), each w/ an object. Good way into theircollectionsNeed to build in lots of time for researchRichard mentioned other types of materials (pamphlets and brochures) incollection that might be sources for us to look into for researchIt would be nice to tie into the rest of the museum (beyond the tap room,hotel bar, and wall between), possibly via little interpretive signs throughoutthe museum that relate to our larger interpretations. But, we need to defineour scope and not bite off more than we can chew.What do we really mean by food on the move?Food while traveling?Food as destination?Portable food?
need to write down a specific parameter
Outside the museum:
Will there be a website component?Build like AOTM? Design to add to it?Need to discussPrinted piece -Brochure / map / passport ties back to the exhibition and delves deeper intolocal themesScavenger hunt?Use to go deeper into local history?Copies of panels around providence? Steve says two separate texts on samematerial. What if it’s not a physical panel, it’s a cell phone tour? Need tomake it local in a way that’s not necessarily important at the museum. Ormaybe use all local examples in the museum.Locations?
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Amtrak
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Port authority
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Ripta – don’t count on it? Not as related to food…
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Gas stations (Sara)
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Diner (Liberty Elm per Annie?)
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Dunkin donuts?Cell phone tour??
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