also faux-sophistication - a wine-tasting (which you can charge for) is
a great pull for posers - it's just booze with a patina of chic - and
may also bring in the really hard to engage - commerce, political
studies, etc. this can raise funds too - if you get your development
dept to get wine sponsorship (it should be easy)...




-----Original Message-----
From: Deb Fuller [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:40 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Question from Museum Studies Student


--- Hilary Troester <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Actually, I think you are right!  Whenever we had a gallery opening
with
> free food, the business school kids walked over.  Another big draw was
to
> have a music major play and that brought all the musicians over.
Never did
> get the education majors over....have no idea what motivates those.
(Maybe
> screaming kids in the foyer?)  Mostly nobody has time and when they
do,
> they want something COMPLETELY recreational which means off campus,
booz
> and no thinking involved.

Ed majors are usually more swamped than most with stuff since they have
to do
classroom time in local schools in addition to their regular class
schedule.
But being a former ed major, when I had free time, I wanted to do
something
completely brainless since I was always inundated with educational
material.
Free food is a good motivator for any major.

Why not have an art party or something fun like that at the gallery?
Coffee
house type things or poetry slams tend to draw poser college types as
well. (No
offense to non-posers who attend such things. :) And if you have any
sort of
nudes in your collection, exploit them - even if it is nude fruit. :)
Nothing
draws college students quicker than controversy. :)

Deb

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