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       Hello BASIS Community! It's time for the summary of my third week at the museum. This week was precursed (I'm pretty sure that that is a word and Wikictionary backs me up) by the most wonderful of all weekends. Roller derby on Saturday and the Oscars on Sunday. I mean, could it get any better?
       On Tuesday, my adviser was gone all day for jury duty. Fortunately, she wasn't picked as the trial was a murder case and, if she had been picked, she would be involved with the trial for a month, which would have seriously messed up my project. I spent the day doing research and some data entry. At lunch, I went with several museum staff to a special tour of the Embrace exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. The DAM just built a new building and the whole point of the exhibit was to show off the space. The museum worked with several artists around the world to create temporary pieces of artwork wherever they chose in the new building, "embracing" the space. My favorite piece of artwork there wasn't part of the exhibit, but I will share it with you anyway. This is called Fox Games and it's by Sandy Skoglund, who is an amazing artist.

     Wednesday, I got to seal and stamp the museum's monthly bills and was responsible for putting them in the mail, which made me feel very important. I spent the rest of the day researching. I'm not sure if I've explained exactly what I'm researching yet. Basically, I'm trying to make the museum more accessible to people who wouldn't necessarily be coming to the museum on a regular basis, such as low income families, the Hispanic demographic, etc. I hope to do this though a dance program of some sort. So far, I have spent my time researching museums across the country that have successful programs (ICA Boston, MASS MoCA and the Kemper, to name a few) and trying to get in contact with the person at each museum who is responsible for scheduling. Next week, I hope to start making phone calls.

     Today, I started on a new, rather large project. The graphic designer at the museum recently left, so I'm taking on a small project she used to be responsible for. The museum's photographer takes a huge amount of photographs at every event (installations, openings, special events...) and delivers them on CDs. It is now my job to upload the photos to the MCA Shared Database and rename them all. There are at least 20 CDs and they each have upwards of 200 photos, so the project should take quite a while.