Public Humanities Student Collaboration

With the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson and Wales

2009-2010
Food on the Move
Questions for Richard Gutman / Culinary Arts Museum
1 November 2009

In the course of our brainstorming sessions, these are questions the

public humanities students working on the project came up with.

Regarding the exhibition / working with the Museum:

• Does the date we chose for the exhibition’s opening work? (More
generally, does the timeline work?)
• How would installation work at the Museum? What days and times
would we be able to install (or does the Museum need to do that?)?
Does April 8-15 work?
• Does the Museum’s staff do actual preparatorial work on objects
and hanging of objects and panels or do we?
• Where is the preparatorial space? What kind of access could we
have to the space? When may we begin so as to not interfere with
other preparatorial work at the Museum?
• Do you have a designer that you work with? Should we use yours or
one of our choice? Is the Museum able to pay for exhibit design?
• Does the Museum have a review policy for text? We would like to
maintain editorial control.
• How may we be recognized within the Museum for our work? We’d
like to avoid implying that our views are those of the Museum as
well as claim the work we do on the exhibition.
• How does fabrication of panels, labels, and other printed matter
take place? What fabrication is done in-house? Printing? Exhibit
construction? Which of these elements of this project can the
Museum support financially?

Regarding the programming / working with the students:

• What is the Johnson & Wales University calendar? When should the
programming committee approach them? How has Richard worked
with them in the past? Are specific suggestions/requests needed?
Would a collaboration with the students likely be a week-long
project/lab? How do collaborations with students come about?
• Define a J&W student liaison, who shall we contact to work with
their student body? Program committee needs to set up meeting.