Museum Assignment – Fashioning Wonder:A Cabinet of Curiosities @Museum at FIT
Part 1 – to be done at the museum
Museum Journal
·Journals are a creative record of your general impressions of the assigned exhibition.Comment on the look of the exhibition and the exhibition thesis.Yourjournal can be a physical book or a digital creation that resembles a book with pages or separate sections.It should not resemble a word doc with images.Be creative with your layout!
·Your museum journal section must be between 6-8 pages.
·Choose 4 objects from the exhibition that interest you.These objects are to be recorded as color sketches or photographs in your journal.You should explain your interest in them using notes, arrows, highlights,and/or connections to design,(fabrics, colors,decorative arts etc.)outside the exhibition.For each object,include at least 1 close-up or detail to show areas of interest such as technique,ornamentation,and color.
·Each object must be identifed with the object name,the maker or culture,the materials,and the date.This information can be found on the label text,usually positioned adjacent to the object.
Part 2 – to be done at home
Please read the online information about the exhibition:https://www.ftnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/fashioning :
wonder/index.php (https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/fashioning-wonder/index.php) (htt ps://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/fashioning-wonder/index.php)
Questions
This section of the assignment should resemble a standard Word doc.with images when required.
1) You as a collector-
Go to the Fashioning Wonder exhibition page on the Museum at Fit website.Find the “Female Collectors and Tastemakers in
Fashioning Wonder”section and read the Introduction,Early Female Collectors andall entries for the individual cllectors/donors to learn about a few of the women who assembled cabinets of curiosities,as well as how female donors to The Museum at FIT collection have shaped Fashioning Wonder:A Cabinet of Curiosities.
https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/theMuseumatFit/exhibition/5105159e-4af3-4bfb-964f-8beb2bf34e2e
(https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/theMuseumatFit/exhibition/5105159e-4af3-4bfb-964f-8beb2bf34e2e)
2)Your personal cabinet of curiosity-
a)Upload an image of a repository of your personal style-a closet,jewelry box,bureau,trunk,etc.How does this image explain how you express yourself through fashion?(2 paragraph,5+sentences per paragraph).Show a friend or roommate the imagee and ask them for three words to describe your personal repository of style.
b) Choose one object that you own that represents your sense of style. Take an image of the object to include with your answer. Imagine that it is 30 years in the future and you have donated the object to the Museum at FIT.Write an exhibition label for the object,with a one-paragraph explanation of the object and a one-paragraph explanation of you as the donor.Be creative!Who will you be in 30 years time?Use the entries for the individual collectors/donors section of”Female Collectors and Tastemakers in Fashioning Wonder”for reference.