Public Humanities Student CollaborationWith the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson and Wales2009-2010

Food on the Move

Questions for Richard Gutman / Culinary Arts Museum1 November 2009

In the course of our brainstorming sessions, these are questions thepublic humanities students working on the project came up with.Regarding the exhibition / working with the Museum:

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Does the date we chose for the exhibition’s opening work? (Moregenerally, does the timeline work?)

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How would installation work at the Museum? What days and timeswould we be able to install (or does the Museum need to do that?)?Does April 8-15 work?

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Does the Museum’s staff do actual preparatorial work on objectsand hanging of objects and panels or do we?

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Where is the preparatorial space? What kind of access could wehave to the space? When may we begin so as to not interfere withother preparatorial work at the Museum?

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Do you have a designer that you work with? Should we use yours orone of our choice? Is the Museum able to pay for exhibit design?

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Does the Museum have a review policy for text? We would like tomaintain editorial control.

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How may we be recognized within the Museum for our work? We’dlike to avoid implying that our views are those of the Museum aswell as claim the work we do on the exhibition.

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How does fabrication of panels, labels, and other printed mattertake place? What fabrication is done in-house? Printing? Exhibitconstruction? Which of these elements of this project can theMuseum support financially?Regarding the programming / working with the students:

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What is the Johnson & Wales University calendar? When should theprogramming committee approach them? How has Richard workedwith them in the past? Are specific suggestions/requests needed?Would a collaboration with the students likely be a week-longproject/lab? How do collaborations with students come about?

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Define a J&W student liaison, who shall we contact to work withtheir student body? Program committee needs to set up meeting.