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Item Contemporary storytelling practice : a look inside the Portland Art Museum's Object stories(2013-08) Stuart, Sophie Shields; Mayer, Melinda M.The purpose of this study is to investigate how the use of contemporary storytelling practice in a museum setting can successfully engage visitor voices with objects. Specifically, this research used an exploratory case study to better understand Object Stories at the Portland Art Museum. The unique attributes inherent in Object Stories make it an exemplary program to research and through which to gain understandings regarding effective contemporary storytelling techniques within a museum. The use of digital archives, the creation of a safe space, and enabling visitors to share personal stories about museum objects are some of the qualities that set Object Stories apart from other contemporary storytelling programs in the United States. Four themes emerged through interviews, observations, and the study of documents forming a rich and detailed understanding of Object Stories. These themes are found within and help elucidate the successful characteristics of Object Stories. Based on the findings of this study, museum educators can look to this interactive gallery space at the Portland Art Museum to help them develop or enhance storytelling programs, and ultimately to improve the development of empathetic connections between visitors and museum objects.Item Experiences of rupture(2005) Carroll, Ledia Pearl; Taylor, Chris, 1965-I am interested in a mode of inquiry that reveals existing conditions to people through direct experience of an artifact or phenomena. My work ranges from objects, to overt experience, to the documentation of observed situations. These projects tend to be situated in and use materials from both natural and constructed landscapes. They are science or mapping projects that explore fundamental aspects of the world. When they provide multiple perspectives at once they blur boundaries between indoors and outdoors, above and below, the past and the present, or socially permitted and not allowed. Through these projects, I create open conditions of possibility, of rupture, and lines of flight from the everyday experience of time. This document is divided into four distinct sections. First I will outline some art movements that have made me think about the seamlessness and rupture in daily experience. Then I will examine representation systems that are generative for my work and follow with a section on my design methodology. The final section describes my projects.