Artifact Profiles:
#1, #2, #3

Instructions:

"Perhaps most important of all, a good entry in a catalog conveys: the inherent value of the work; the entry helps the reader and viewer to understand why the work is worth looking at and is worth reading about. In fact, a good entry should help the reader to see the work more dearly, more fully. It should make the reader want to return to the exhibition to take another look at the work (or if the exhibition is no longer available, the entry should make the reader take a second and closer look at the reproduction of the work in the catalog), and cause the reader to say mentally, 'Ah, I hadn't noticed that. That's very interesting.'" -- “Writing an Entry in an Exhibition Catalog”

An exhibition requires artifacts! You have selected three pieces of cultural heritage in your Proposal. Now you will provide the Artifact Profiles (also known as Catalog Entries) to accompanying that heritage. You will write three Artifact Profiles (each due at different times).

Each Profile will include:

• Heading (for those categories that are relevant)

  • Title of Artifact (if one is already given to it by an institution, keep that one; if not, create one)

  • Bibliography: minimum of two 2 relevant, fact-checked sources in MLA style (see your textbook and/or Purdue OWL)

• Body

  • Minimum of 750 words (for each Artifact Profile) 

  • In-text MLA citations for all information used from sources (including direct quotations)

  • Topics to consider addressing (you will find a focus, an angle for your Profile, rather than addressing all of these):

    • Context of the artifact

    • Story of the artifact

    • Connections to theme of Mini-Exhibition

    • Significance of artifact

    • Questions raised

  • Avoid:

    • Simple summary - this is about contextualizing the artifact, not just describing it

    • Making details up

    • Jargon without further elaboration

Helpful Note:

• • Reread Heritages of Change, Chapter 4.6

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