Week Five - Federation House Exhibition Planning

 During this week, all of Unit X Educator meet up and began drafting ideas of what we could create for the exhibition at Federation House. Two ideas came up, either creating a workshop that involves both of our workshops and involving people or to present what we created in the workshops. Both of these have their advantages and disadvantages.

 In terms of creating a workshop, the advantages of this would be; we would be showing the viewers what we have been doing in the unit, giving them an insight into teaching. It would also inform them of the messages we are teaching the children and inform them which as a result, could change their mindset of art, or how to create art. We would also be interacting with the public, and this may help change the mindset of someone who does not feel that they are creative, start to believe that they can be creative. However, there are many disadvantages to this, for example, it would take a lot of time to prepare and this could have an impact on the workshops we are giving to the children. It would be better if we gave one really good workshop to the children than develop two workshops that wouldn't be to their best ability. People may not want to join the activities due to the use of paint and them wearing suits and the potential of their clothes getting dirty and therefore our time would be waisted. It would also require people being there the whole time, and why this may not be an issue for some, for others, they may have previous commitments.

 When considering presenting what we did in the workshop, we spoke about either filming the workshops and projecting them onto the boiler suits or hanging up the boiler suits. The advantages of this include, it will be a lot easier for us and would give us maximum time to prepare our workshops for the children. People maybe more interested in the work as it would just include the boiler suits and could become visually quite interesting, you would have to look at the work at detail to understand what we did and what we are trying to show. However, there are disadvantages to doing this, one of them, is we are not putting into practice what we learnt throughout Unit X and passing on this information. If we were to film the workshops and project them, it would give us one day to create these films, creating a lot of pressure and stress onto us. Another disadvantage to both these ideas, is that it could be uninteresting and visually quite weak. This is a strong possibility as we will be exhibiting with other people who have had months to prepare for this.

 At the end of the meeting, we decided to go with the second idea and I personally am glad for this. I would much rather create a very good workshop for the children and then present the work created in the exhibition.