Collaboration

Today is not the right day to do this post since about 85% of the staff in Downtown are away (either in meetings or just a day off), so pictures I will have to supplement tomorrow or later on.

In the coarse of one typical day I typically collaborate or work with either one or two or nobody. Since I'm the educational intern and my project is independent, I can't really work with other people. My office is on the second floor, everyone else's is on the third, so I don't really see them that often.

I am however collaborating (sort of) with the museum's Teen Art Council, their the voice of my project. I film them talking and edit it together. How that works is I come to their events and meetings, meet with them, film them doing things, take 4 or 5 people into my office and interview them (typically only one question per person, I want a diverse cast of characters).

When I read this next question, how I impact other people's work, I thought I didn't. And really I don't, except for my side assignment, cleaning and organizing the closets (lots and lots of stuff), really that is going to make someone's life much easier, and they'll be glad that some 16-year old had to do it instead of them, so in that sense I do, and it kind of makes me feel better about trying to accomplish that.

But on another note, every body here collaborates on everything, almost no position is a one-man position (ex. there are two education curators), and even if you have the only position in that job title, your job will entail working with others, the museum is a group effort.