CBL Experience w/the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery
Community Mentor: Gabriella Whittier
Agency and Placement Location: On-campus
Mission: According to its website: " Richard F. Brush Art Gallery is to connecting people and ideas through the visual arts and creative expression. Working with artists, curators, scholars, and diverse and inclusive communities, both local and global, the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery is a teaching and learning environment that promotes creative expression, critical thinking, and dialogue across disciplines and cultures."
Projects:
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"...to digitize several dozen historical photographs and stereoscopes of New York State’s Adirondack Mountains. The project will ask the students to familiarize themselves with the Adirondack Collection (Manuscript Collection 32), and from this create an exhibition based on the photographs and stereoscopes by Seneca Ray Stoddard and the photographs by Edward Bierstadt. Both Stoddard and Beirstadt play a significant role in shaping popular perceptions of the Adirondacks in the late nineteenth century, and St. Lawrence University’s collections of their photographs are singularly important within the context of the Adirondack holdings."
- Museum standard digital scanning and image file enhancement;
- Cataloguing images using traditional research methods and generative AI ;
- Writing interpretive text panels;
- Selecting photographs and stereoscopes to curate an exhibition for the Library or Art Gallery; and
- Publicizing the exhibition on social media.