Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog

My last day at the IMA did nothing for my stomach.

After a few last minute tasks in the morning, Meg, my internship mentor for the summer, and I strolled over to our escape vehicle from the great indoors. A single key, a nine-person van and one destination: MUG n’ BUN Drive-in.

Most of the Marketing department decided to join us on our journey to Indianapolis’s west side. Some were hoping to relive memories of root beer and corn dogs, and others, like myself, to experience the glory of this drive-in for the first time. We were a sight to behold in our office regalia. We scarfed down the mountain of delicious food before us: Chocolate malts, fries, root beer, burgers, coney dogs, corn dogs and cole slaw. All morsels of an afternoon at MUG n’ BUN. Read the rest of this entry »

Imagine receiving a DNA collection kit in the mail with your name on it, swabbing the inside of your cheek, transferring the cells onto a piece of special paper, and mailing it back to the return address. In the lab, a technician extracts your DNA, runs it on a gel, and captures a raw digital image from that gel. Then, your DNA sample is destroyed. Convicted felon? Father of another child? Or just redecorating the condo with your unique DNA portrait?

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Aside from the "zigazig ah" that everyone wants, I want IMA to be, “genre-defying.” Films, bands, authors, artists: they can all be genre-defying. So why can’t we?

In many ways museums have been required to wear many hats for a while now. They have found themselves in precarious places, needing to get a piece of that proverbial cash pie, necessitating competition with movies, sporting events, zoos and other, much flashier leisure time attractions. Read the rest of this entry »

Somewhere between the information technology guru and the casual PC-user, you can find me. As Communications Manager at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, I have to stay on top of emerging communication tools. I need to know how people communicate now and learn how they will communicate in the future in order to make the museum relevant to their lives. Since undertaking my current role, I have developed a morning work ritual. At 8:30, I enter the office with my two-cup mug of coffee. At 8:35ish I begin checking my personal email account, checking my MySpace page, checking the IMA’s MySpace page, checking my Facebook page, checking my Flickr account, checking the IMA’s Flickr account, reading the headlines of NYtimes and the Indy Star, reading the latest postings of my dozen or so favorite art and tech blogs, and finally checking YouTube for the newest videos. At 9:00 am with half of my coffee gone, I move on to my work email account. During that half hour, I sometimes feel like my head might just explode from the amount of content I try to cram into it. The fast pace of technology and the amount of content that is now accessible through the internet, both excites and overwhelms me. Read the rest of this entry »