This dissertation study examines the growing art museum practice of using exhibition development teams, where cross-departmental staff members and community members collaborate throughout the planning and implementation of an exhibition. Although this practice continues to gain momentum, few research or evaluation studies report on exhibition team facilitation, the process of collaborative curating, and resulting exhibitions. In this qualitative investigation, the author uses an evaluation frame, evaluative inquiry for learning in organizations articulated by Preskill and Torres in 1999, in order to study one exhibition team that incorporated staff and community members at a mid-size art museum in New Orleans. A purposeful sampling method contributed to a six-member exhibition team, including the author, who participated as facilitator, co-curator, and co-learner. Evaluative inquiry uses a constructivist approach to learning as an iterative process that includes individual, team, and organizational learning. As applied in this study, the inquiry cycles guided exhibition development. The author paired evaluative inquiry with grounded theory to analyze collected data across team and exhibition artifacts including audio transcripts of team meetings, blog entries, and the exhibition itself, among others. Results led to the development of the focused exhibition model, which may lead to continued organizational learning at the art museum site where the study took place, or potentially for other small to mid-size museums interested in collaborative exhibition development. The focused exhibition model recommends approaches regarding defining exhibition team curatorial roles, facilitator roles, and a flexible exhibition process. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Art Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester, 2013. / May 2, 2013. / curation, exhibition team, organizational learning / Includes bibliographical references. / Pat Villeneuve, Professor Directing Dissertation; Paul Marty, University Representative; Tom Anderson, Committee Member; Jeff Broome, Committee Member; Linda Schrader, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_183886 |
| Contributors | Love, Ann Rowson (authoraut), Villeneuve, Pat (professor directing dissertation), Marty, Paul (university representative), Anderson, Tom (committee member), Broome, Jeff (committee member), Schrader, Linda (committee member), Department of Art Education (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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