I am doing my internship in a new public art museum in Sydney. I want to work in the public events area and luckily I got what I want in this museum.
The museum runs daily tours for the public. They also ran book club and exhibition related films once a month for the public.
My role here is to propose for more events that can promote the gallery to the wider audience and attract more people to come.
I am here two days a week: one week day and one weekend day.
Many of my time here are spent on researching for more ideas and the logistics of the events. Most of the time I worked in the library. With people coming and going, I found it more stimulating.
For the first a few weeks in the gallery, I used lots of my time studying on the artworks that are currently shown: the meaning behind the works, what kind of message it wants to convey etc. I think it gives me some guidance for the kind of public events that the gallery can run.
When I have the chance, I chat with the public audience to find out what they feel about the gallery, where they heard about it etc.
I think I need to do more on who is our audience and who the gallery wants to attract. They are sometimes different groups. It gets me in a little bit trouble. I will tell you how in my next blog.
