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Week 7

This week we had two really wonderful guest speakers.  Curator Lisa Dorin came and spoke to us about her career as a curator and specifically about her work on the Sharon Hayes exhibition.  I thought one of the most interesting things she shared was that her favorite part of her job--working with living artists--can also be the biggest challenge of her job.  She explained that she loves being an advocate to help make the artist's vision happen in the museum, but on the flip side, sometimes certain ideas and requests are just not possible.

Troy Klyber is the Intellectual Property Manager here at the museum.  We were particularly excited to talk with him because we had lots of questions about the types of images/music/etc that can be used in the Digital Collage projects and still make them legally in-the-clear to post on the museum website.  He talked to us about copyright laws and the idea of fair use.  He said that a lot of people ask him about if the museum "goes after" people who use AIC artworks in commercials, ads, products, etc.  Interestingly, he said his job isn't so much about policing use of the museum collection as it is to make sure that the museum itself is fairly using the collection!  He loves the research and investigation that comes with tracking down artists and estates of artists who have died.  Just after his talk with us, the AIC blog featured a post by Troy about this issue.

Another highlight of the week was going to the ASM College Fair.  We have a few seniors in Teen Lab who were able to get lots of important and useful information, but it was also a helpful orientation to the process for underclassmen as well.  ASM offers some great resources about the college process on their website too.