Wonder what the Curatorial Team did while abroad?
Now you no longer have to wonder.
However, if you feel that this schedule does not reveal the brainstorming that occurred within object labs or the methodological debates had by all while we broke ginger cookies, that is intentional. Paragraph by paragraph of a team’s mental dexterity in pursuit of a goal is similar to football plays: distillable to circles and arrows, or in this case: times and activities.
Friday, March 4th
9AM: Officially done with midterms
9:30AM: Collective sighs of relief
11:30AM: Conjugate in the lobby of Bard Hall for taxi pickup
1PM: Arrive at the airport to hear that our flight has been delayed by 45 minutes
5:15PM: Board plane
To sit on the runway for half-an-hour due to sky traffic
7:30PM: Arrive in Milwaukee cold, tired, and hungry
8PM: Escorted to the Radisson Hotel
8:30PM: Retrieved from the Radisson and taken to the Chipstone Foundation
9PM: Brought to the carriage house and greeted with beer, (with or without root) as well as, barbeque and slaw.
Saturday, March 5th
8:30AM: Complimentary Breakfast
9:30AM: Pickup from Radisson
9:40 AM: Arrive to a snow-covered Chipstone Foundation
10AM: Object Lab: Blindfolded Object Description and Sketching
11:30 AM: Carriage House Tour: What is a Period Room?
12:30 PM: Lunch
2PM: Object Lab: Scavenger Hunt for a “controversial” object within the Chipstone Collection
3:30PM: Arrive to Milwaukee Art Museum-photo ops.
4PM: Tea Time Break
4:30PM: Chipstone Gallery Tours
6:05PM: Pabst Beer Mansion Tour
Dinner was had on the second floor landing. No beer was served.
Sunday, March 6th
10AM: Frank D. Vagnone’s lecture on Anarchist’s Guide to Historic House Museums
11AM: “Distinct Activity” Exercise
12PM: Input “Distinct Activity” data into a spreadsheet
Collective sigh of relief that we are not in the mathematics profession.
1:05PM: Excursion to Mrs. Stone’s liquor hideaway
Her martini mix is still going strong.
1:30PM: Milwaukee Art Museum
2:00PM: Lunch
3:00PM: Scheduled Mutiny-John Brown, Frank Vagnone, Sarah Carter, and Natalie Wright are given a diabolical object lab exercise from the group: Object Survivor.
4PM: Depart Milwaukee