Timeline:
Individual project archive analyzation has been the main focus this week. We are also continually trying to expand our contacts. The nature of this task is waiting for replies, and trying to keep a consistent pace of communication. We patiently expect some correspondences will bloom into interviews soon, some maybe much later, and for others it is hard to tell. The timeline projects have been more divergent than convergent, thus far. We are excited to approach interviewees as communication develops, and organize our new collections of information.
During this partial-week (M-W) the timeline group did not archive as strongly as past weeks. Perhaps because there was less time, less people, and a transfer of focus to communication with interviewees. Over the weekend, on Sunday at noon, Amanda and Mason furthered communication with Pati Bekken and (her husband?) Mark of Saugatuck Center for the Arts [Pati is the event photographer-historian for the organization] at Lemonjello’s. Pati brought a bag of resources for class use, including USB images from Harry. Amanda is the process of email correspondence, and setting up times for the class to go to Pati’s storage units [both?] in Holland to see the yellow series in one and the ‘Nur People’ in the other. She will also set up a date for Chris Overvoorde [Artist and Calvin professor, UofM grad, from Netherlands, printmaking student of Harry in Holland_ask Amanda for more information] to come to Holland and talk about how Harry influenced his life. Perhaps this would be best Wed or Friday after break so the class can have time to gather their questions after viewing the units Mon/Wed of that same week, also during class time. Nancy tracked down Harry's friend Don Hardy and we plan to reach out to him ASAP during or after break.
Provenance:
This week we have just focused on continuing our established process. We have begun to refine our system of organizing primary documents and sorting out the little details of our accession numbering system so we can form a cohesive final document. Personally, I have continued adding more information from the archives into a collective provenance database – this is proving to be a rather slow process. I have also continued the process of assigning and organizing a system of accession numbers to Brorby’s works. Here is a glimpse into what everyone else has been up to this week:
Stephanie: Its been a little hectic trying to balance the individual research paper with both managing the organization group as well as being a part of the provenance group. However, as I am sifting through boxes (seems like it never ends) I am intentionally looking for gallery correspondence as well as information pertaining to the sale of Harry's work. It looks like his dad, Melvin did quite a few of the transactions from several letters I was able to quickly read over. The process of gathering all these materials is slow going, but I think we are making headway!
Digitization:
Brant: Currently much of work of digitization as a group is suspended so that all energies can be focused in archiving the boxes. The eventual goal is for everyone in the class to be digitizing documents of importance and uploading the documents. This way research can be taken outside of the library. A scanning demo was conducted on Wednesday to aid in this shift towards individualized digitization.
Austin: Besides looking through the Brorby archives I have made my way to the Holland Museum and have checked out their archives which, sadly, do not hold anything dating from the 60’s, which is when the first annual fine and applied arts show happened. I will continue to try and look for more related to the art show in what we have in the library. I am pondering the potential length of the paper by which may not suffice ten pages, possibly though. However, I feel as though that the articles do hold some weight in terms of talking more about the event as it relates to Holland as a city in general interested in art. Brorby’y relevance would be minute since there have been mentions of him throughout.
I have also made some additional additions to the Zotero website which is a lengthy process. I may hold off on adding additional information to Zotero and assist with archiving.
Digitization is the same as usual as well as photocopying photos.
Organization:
This week does not deviate from the norm. It is obvious that to focus has shifted from the group project to individual projects, so work has slowed slightly. Work on the individual projects seems to be running along nicely, I see people working in the library all the time.
Archiving:
Much of the archiving has ceased due to increased focus being placed upon individual projects. We are, however, still finding useful documents, despite their slow rate of discovery. I think most of us are assuming many of the work we miss now will be done by the incoming class. Oh, morality.
Individual project archive analyzation has been the main focus this week. We are also continually trying to expand our contacts. The nature of this task is waiting for replies, and trying to keep a consistent pace of communication. We patiently expect some correspondences will bloom into interviews soon, some maybe much later, and for others it is hard to tell. The timeline projects have been more divergent than convergent, thus far. We are excited to approach interviewees as communication develops, and organize our new collections of information.
During this partial-week (M-W) the timeline group did not archive as strongly as past weeks. Perhaps because there was less time, less people, and a transfer of focus to communication with interviewees. Over the weekend, on Sunday at noon, Amanda and Mason furthered communication with Pati Bekken and (her husband?) Mark of Saugatuck Center for the Arts [Pati is the event photographer-historian for the organization] at Lemonjello’s. Pati brought a bag of resources for class use, including USB images from Harry. Amanda is the process of email correspondence, and setting up times for the class to go to Pati’s storage units [both?] in Holland to see the yellow series in one and the ‘Nur People’ in the other. She will also set up a date for Chris Overvoorde [Artist and Calvin professor, UofM grad, from Netherlands, printmaking student of Harry in Holland_ask Amanda for more information] to come to Holland and talk about how Harry influenced his life. Perhaps this would be best Wed or Friday after break so the class can have time to gather their questions after viewing the units Mon/Wed of that same week, also during class time. Nancy tracked down Harry's friend Don Hardy and we plan to reach out to him ASAP during or after break.
Provenance:
This week we have just focused on continuing our established process. We have begun to refine our system of organizing primary documents and sorting out the little details of our accession numbering system so we can form a cohesive final document. Personally, I have continued adding more information from the archives into a collective provenance database – this is proving to be a rather slow process. I have also continued the process of assigning and organizing a system of accession numbers to Brorby’s works. Here is a glimpse into what everyone else has been up to this week:
Stephanie: Its been a little hectic trying to balance the individual research paper with both managing the organization group as well as being a part of the provenance group. However, as I am sifting through boxes (seems like it never ends) I am intentionally looking for gallery correspondence as well as information pertaining to the sale of Harry's work. It looks like his dad, Melvin did quite a few of the transactions from several letters I was able to quickly read over. The process of gathering all these materials is slow going, but I think we are making headway!
Digitization:
Brant: Currently much of work of digitization as a group is suspended so that all energies can be focused in archiving the boxes. The eventual goal is for everyone in the class to be digitizing documents of importance and uploading the documents. This way research can be taken outside of the library. A scanning demo was conducted on Wednesday to aid in this shift towards individualized digitization.
Austin: Besides looking through the Brorby archives I have made my way to the Holland Museum and have checked out their archives which, sadly, do not hold anything dating from the 60’s, which is when the first annual fine and applied arts show happened. I will continue to try and look for more related to the art show in what we have in the library. I am pondering the potential length of the paper by which may not suffice ten pages, possibly though. However, I feel as though that the articles do hold some weight in terms of talking more about the event as it relates to Holland as a city in general interested in art. Brorby’y relevance would be minute since there have been mentions of him throughout.
I have also made some additional additions to the Zotero website which is a lengthy process. I may hold off on adding additional information to Zotero and assist with archiving.
Digitization is the same as usual as well as photocopying photos.
Organization:
This week does not deviate from the norm. It is obvious that to focus has shifted from the group project to individual projects, so work has slowed slightly. Work on the individual projects seems to be running along nicely, I see people working in the library all the time.
Archiving:
Much of the archiving has ceased due to increased focus being placed upon individual projects. We are, however, still finding useful documents, despite their slow rate of discovery. I think most of us are assuming many of the work we miss now will be done by the incoming class. Oh, morality.