Going into the process of creating this exhibition, Resistance in Residence, we had a lot of ideas about our individual goals, as well as the goals for the exhibition as a whole and those of our partner institutions. For our individual goals, we each wrote down aspects of putting together this exhibition that we would like to focus on and learn more about specifically; with the exhibition over, now looking back at these original intentions, it is very telling of the changes the project went through as well as the accomplishments. The aspect I wanted to work to become more familiar with was advertising. Advertising is something I had little experience with in the past, which made it an aspect in this project I wanted to learn from and develop. However, this goal did not work out as planned. Advertising ended up being something we as a group had little room for in the exhibition itself. My colleague did the graphic design for putting together the posters that were used in the promotions for the exhibition. The rest was left primarily up to the Travelling Gallery, CRC, and other organizations such as the Edinburgh College of Art, to spread awareness. Though advertising was still a learning process, working with these organizations and their systems for promotion already in place, just as the rest of the exhibition was a learning experience. While I did not end up focusing as much as I thought on advertising, I did learn a lot focusing on other aspects of the project. I worked a lot with the budget, as that is another area that I had not had much experience with. The budget of this project was complex in the way that there were many moving parts: prices of items that changed, artists we wanted to pay the most the budget allowed, among other details. All of the moving pieces made the budget a bit complex, but they were a good learning experience for budgeting this type of project. Looking back on the project, I learned a lot, even if it was not always what I expected.
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