UMMA

For my second paper, I chose to write about UM's Art Museum. I chose it because I visit often and feel a connection to the place. However, this has become problematic because I am having a hard time separating myself from the place and viewing it as an outsider. When I observed, the museum was fairly empty---there were only a few older couples, the guards, and the students working at the front desk. I started writing, but I am having a hard time finding some direction for the paper. I began writing about the crowd in the museum and its sterile-looking interior. I thought I could explore the crowd that comes into the museum and their motives for being there---what pieces or artists attract them/if they come often or are visiting for the first time/if they are students or not students, etc. I don’t think satire will be a huge problem for me in this paper, there isn’t much to satirize about an art museum. Basically, I think my problem is mainly lack of direction in the paper.