Melissa:

My new favorite delivery method for this kind of information is this:

take your text relating to a specific piece - perhaps a sentence or two, a 
prompt, some questions - print it out nicely on cardstock.

Trim to the size you like, then laminate it.

 Punch a hole in the corner and put it on your basic key ring.

Screw a cup hook into the wall nearest the painting in question, and hang 
your prompt from the hook.

Costs next to nothing (lamination, a cup hook, and a key ring is less than 
$2 each), easily handled, easily reproduced if it disappears, and you can 
hang it at kid-level if you want.  We've had none disappear, and people put 
them back on the right hook every time, since the text relates only to the 
painting you're standing in front of.

We currently have a loan exhibition of abstract painting (The Most Difficult 
Journey, an ExhibitsUSA show) and we used the text they provided for a more 
traditional gallery guide to produce these.  We know people are sometimes 
alarmed by Abstract Expressionist paintings, so I wanted to find a way to 
get them to actually STOP and LOOK for a few minutes.  We've been really 
pleased with them and find people are using them.

I did not invent this idea, by the way, I stole...er, *borrowed* it, but I'm 
not sure where I saw it first.

Jill R. Chancey, PhD
Curator
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
PO Box 1108
Laurel, MS 39441
(601) 649-6374
www.LRMA.org
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Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:54 AM
Subject: Handouts in Art Galleries


>
> Hello Museum-L
>
> I am working on new ideas for our handouts available in the gallery space. 
> At the moment the handouts are functioning as longer explanatory labels 
> for the art works.  However, we have some contemporary art exhibitions 
> coming up that are going to be much more intimate and challenging so we 
> are looking for ways to help our visitors into the artwork.  I was 
> wondering if any of you out there have some more creative approaches to 
> handouts for the gallery space-----I would appreciate an examples you 
> might have.
>
> You can email me off-line at [log in to unmask]
>
> Thanks in advance
> Melissa Lloyd
>
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