Ethnographic Detail And Analysis Essay

Ethnographic Detail and Analysis including Literature Review

I asked Dennis a total of 16 questions in which he gave me paragraphs and paragraphs of information for each one. While each question builds upon my ethnography, I decided to highlight only a few. The following questions not only answered my research questions but also tied in with existing literature on art museum curation. One of the first questions I asked Dennis was “Do you think that a curator needs to have an artistic background?” For instance, the article I Am A Curator outlines, “The study and practice of curating are still overwhelmingly dependent on borrowing analysis and discourse from other fields of inquiry.” Dennis replied:

“Having an artistic background, an art making background, does bring a different component to the job that a curator does, but also having a heavily studied background in history, brings an equally valuable component to it. A lot of curators actually came from an educational background. They weren’t really schooled in either art making necessarily or art history, but in educational theory and they happen to have a strong interest in art or art history, but their background is educational. So for them, they would put together an exhibition that perhaps has more of that kind of didactic component to it. My background is

Oftentimes, when choosing art to exhibit, Dennis and the museum as a whole try to incorporate different styles, different cultures, and different art forms in order to appeal to as much of the community as they possibly can. The Jules Collins Smith Fine Arts Museum in particular is there to serve the community, to broaden the horizons of the surrounding population, and to make each and every culture, ethnicity, and gender feel at home and welcomed within the museum’s