Project Planning

This week was all about planning out the project I will be working on for the mansion. We have decided that I will be creating a catalog that depicts and explains the Woodward Art Collection, specifically anything that has to deal with horses.

Looking through PastPerfect today my mentor and I grabbed anything that was under the search key 'Woodward', exported the list to excel, and deleted anything that wasn't a photo, print, trophy, painting, etc... For example there were books that had nothing to do with horses or horse racing so those were deleted off the excel spreadsheet.

The next step was to look through the physical vertical files and pull anything ranging from old documents of the Woodward estate inventory to articles, letters, emails, and auction catalogs relating to the art work. We looked through each of the documents and then I was sent away to make copies. So I made the copies, had a meeting with my supervisor about what I'd be doing, and that was it.

Tomorrow and next week I will be reading over everything I collected, possibly going into the storage facility to look at the objects/art work stored away, and figuring out what I want to interpret. I'm a little overwhelmed at the moment but the gathering process is almost over!

This is a picture of a part of a document I will be using for my catalog