The Museum Studies Practicum class has been busy preparing for the
upcoming exhibit about Papua New Guinea, but our class is still in the beginning
stages. The exhibition that we are planning
involves masks and spirit boards from Papua New Guinea that were donated by
Vera Laska and her husband, Adam James Laska. Vera Laska used to be a professor
of History here at Regis. The class has been
working hard on our labels. Besides the labels, the class also just finished
working on a grant that would fund an educational program around the exhibit in
the spring semester, and now we are just waiting to see if it has been approved
or not.
We also just
recently went to visit the Children’s Center here at Regis. The class helped
the children build their masks with a lot of glitter glue and feathers. It was
fun at the Children’s Center to see how each child made his or her mask. There
were some children who went crazy and put every kind of material on the mask...and then there
were some children who were very, very careful with the mask. Whatever the method, the children knew
exactly what material they wanted and where they wanted to put it!
People can see the children’s masks and also
build their own masks at the Meaning of Masks event this Monday on October 26
from 4:00-6:00pm in the Library. Besides seeing the children’s masks, people
can see poster boards that our class is working hard on, while the Humanities
Department, and others from the Regis community will also be contributing to the
event. We hope you will join us!
-Heather Ruano, Museum Studies Practicum
