Bicentennial Exhibit Development Internship Week 12

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Bicentennial Exhibit Development project:

Since turning in our narrative text draft last week, the team has been waiting for our first round of feedback for future editing on the gallery narratives. In the meantime, we are working to find a day and time to get the whole team together to draft the object labels, which are due on April 17. 

We have hit a bit of a roadblock in trying to figure out a day to plan this drafting session, because of everyone's normal schedules and also how hectic the end of the semester gets for everyone involved. I have been in constant communication with the graduate project supervisor to try to figure out a day, however we have not made much progress in this regard. My initial idea was for the team to be able to go back into the Special Collections and University Archives and pull out the specific objects that we decided on back in February with our object list, and to plug them into a Canva template that we create beforehand based off of the example that Arielle from the Archives provided us with on our initial visit in February. In the same day/session, we were hoping we could also be able to go into Dr. Crepeau's collection in his office and repeat the process with the rest of the objects. This way, we could get everything done efficiently and in a cohesive manner. 

Because of this inability to find a day for this so far, this week has been largely centered around trying to find a day. While we wait for the feedback on our narratives, we have mostly just been waiting for further communication from members of the team. 

On Friday, we had a discussion post-style email that we were tasked to send to the project supervisors updating them on our progress with the object label creation. Unfortunately, there is not much of an update in this regard due to everything I mentioned above. To keep open communication with everyone, I explained the situation at hand, and asked for any suggestions or input to help us move things in a good direction. I am hopeful that we will be able to figure this out soon, especially once the graduate supervisor is back in the States after her travels to a conference overseas. In the meantime, we (the interns) will be working on creating the Canva template for the object labels. 

Hopefully next week will have a better update in this regard! 

See you next week! 


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