1. Truth and Illusion: Interpreting San Francisco Identities
Grace Hanford and Grace Hale
ART 200: Museum Studies
Exploring guidebooks, travelogues, world’s fairs, and various print material have shaped and reflected San Francisco’s various identities over the past 150 years. The exhibition is on display in the Donahue Rare Book room from Monday, April 30th through Friday, June 1st.
Let's have fun in San Francisco:
A Handbook to the City (1939)

2. The Big Idea ~Narrative that explains the exhibition
~Exploring how the city has been depicted the past 150 years
Ideal: (outside/romantic perspective): Tourism, Landmarks, Ads
Exotic: (communal experience/perspective): Chinatown/ districts, Navy, Hippies
Realistic: “actual” (reality of community and how we contextualize): Photography, Historical paintings
[These two images represent romanticized, idealized]
Etchings of San Francisco Through the Years (1965)
Old California (1924)

3. Eadweard Muybridge, Panorama of San Francisco from California St
Eadweard Muybridge, Panorama of San Francisco from California St. Hill (1877)
[In contrast to two views of SF on previous slide, this photograph represents a realistic depiction]

4. Cementing the Big Idea Truth vs. Illusion
Broader understanding of the objects
Ability for viewer to interpret for themselves
Realism vs. romanticism
Multiple views of San Francisco
[Talk about examples of Truth vs Illusion illustrated in earthquake imagery and the San Francisco Oracle]
The City That Is (1909)

5. San Francisco Since 1872: A Pictorial History of Seven Decades (1946)
(Grace) [Realistic]
San Francisco Since 1872: A Pictorial History of Seven Decades (1946)

6. [Romanticized, with images produced ~90 years after the events depicted]
Earthquake and Fire Days of (1998; reprint of 1923 narrative with contemporary watercolors)

7. The San Francisco Oracle represents both sides...
The San Francisco Oracle (1991 facsimile of edition)

8. Exhibition Group Responsibilities
Curatorial
Design
Publicity
Digital
Collaboration between all groups:
Determining the Big Idea
Further developing concepts
Reviewing and selecting objects
Writing texts
Discussing organization
(Grace talk about design and digital)
How will the viewers see what we are seeing?
How will our message of Interpreting San Francisco Identities be represented and told through this exhibition?
Projected
Ideal
Exotic
This section includes the objects that are associated with ad’s and tourism
Internal -”realistic”
-historical
-This section includes the photography and historical paintings/text
Design: Designing all print materials
Created poster, brochure, and other promotional materials
Publicity
Promoting throughout USF
Organizing public talks
CARD Opening Reception (May 10th)
Digital
Designing web page on Tumblr
Documents the exhibition and information on each work

9. How do we bring these ideas to life?
Further refine concepts
Determine exhibition layout and organization
Installation!
(Grace talk about how to incorporate design into this process, how to select the pages to showcase and make the case look cohesive and appealing depending on the pages chosen)
Take the three categories and arrange them according to fluency
Figure out how the layout of the Donahue Rare book room will be facilitated to represent our objects
-what pages to show in the books, since we are handling print materials
Considering the object and how to handle the art, large part of exhibition work
Taking into consideration the fragility of the objects and how to arrange them due to their state
Visual variety, creating visual interest, audience oriented
The Art History/ Arts Management major provides us This class is a prerequisite for the 2 internships all Art History students have to take, and so this class gave us a good first hands on experience with exhibition work, art handling, and curatorial planning especially.

10. The exhibition is on display from April 30th to June 1st
Reception and Talk on May 10th 4:30-5:30
Beginning at Thacher Gallery and ending in
the Donohue Rare Book Room

11. Art 200 Spring 2018 A special thank you to…
Victoria Fraire Delaney Gibbons Grace Hale
Grace Hanford Corinne Ladner Rachall Lee
Claire Robinson Jordan Sandoval Leo Shanaberger
Angela Ting Savannah Winchell
A special thank you to…
Professor Karen Fraser
John Hawk, Head Librarian,
Donohue Rare Book Room