Breaking Barriers: Inclusive Interpretation in the Art Museum
My graduate research at The Ohio State University examines how initiating inclusive in-gallery interpretation, even without human interactions, can provide for meaningful engagement with and deeper understanding of artwork. I designed and evaluated the interpretation for The Columbus Crossing Borders Project (on view in Summer 2018) at Dublin Arts Council (Dublin, OH), about refugee experiences. My interpretation strategies (as seen below), including a video feedback booth, an interactive “web” with which participants could connect with one another, and an iPad app with which participants created related digital artworks, provided for meaningful engagement.
Visitors could reflect on exhibition themes through dialogue prompted by conversation starters on chairs, or by asking and answering their own questions in bowls.
Participants could record their own personal responses to and stories about the exhibition and the refugee experience.
iPad Interactive (Create, Connect, Contemplate, or C3) Welcome Screen iPad app designed in collaboration with Zach Winegardner
Participants could create their own artworks using exhibition artworks to literally and figuratively “cross borders.” iPad app designed in collaboration with Zach Winegardner.
Participants wrote about the advantages and disadvantages of their homeland and then connected their response to another story to which they related.
Participants wrote about the advantages and disadvantages of their homeland and then connected their response to another story to which they related.