Investigating the Engagement of College Students in an Activist Exhibition

The present document will investigate the engagement of college students in an activist exhibition through the topic of the Bay Area Asian American Movement. The narratives of the movement will be organized by the locations around the Bay Area, beginning on the college campuses then expanding to San Francisco’s Chinatown-Manilatown. Each content section has a brief description of the narratives that will be presented to the visitor and their flow within the exhibition. The exhibition will explore the development of the Asian American Movement through the perspective of college students and young adults. The audience for this exhibition is college students. Interviews were conducted with four undergraduate students from George Mason University to better understand their museum visitation, social and political engagement, and their free time. In addition to the interviews, activism on college campuses will also be addressed.The site of the exhibition will be at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, which is very accessible to UC Berkeley students. The exhibition will transform the museum’s Gallery One to an open floorplan with a printmaking studio in the center. To inform the design of the exhibition four precedent exhibitions were analyzed, highlighting key takeaways which will inspire aspects of this exhibition. The narrative device of the exhibition is the characteristic of activists prints. The narrative device will inform the design and interpretive strategies to create impactful moments throughout the exhibition which will inspire community. The narrative experiences of college students from the Asian American Movement will empower visitors and cause them to draw parallels to their own experiences. The layout of the exhibition will facilitate community building through visitors working with their hands creating prints and zines together in an open studio.

Author

• Coates, Danielle A

Language

• en

Keyword

• Asian American
• Student Activism
• Printmaking
• Asian American Movement

Date created

• 2019

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Exhibition Design

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Briggs, Nigel
• Crellin, Naomi

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/w37637360